Mek…. Mek…. My first time attempting a goat craft 😛
Toilet roll goat
Paint a toilet roll brown
Use cotton as the beard and foam and felt for the rest.
Mek Mek is done. I’d prefer the ears to be slimmer and eyes not too big though 😛
We are making an auspicious Ancient Coin Lantern using red packets today 🙂
Ang Pao Ancient Coin Lantern
You’ll need to fold 16 packets of ang paos as shown above – fold all four edges.
Staple them together to get 4 of the above
Staple them together to get the above
Arrange and staple them as shown above
Side view. Add tassel and your lantern is done 😀
If you still don’t get it, watch this video
I made some beautiful ball lanterns and many have requested for me to share the steps here.
Red Packet Ball Lantern
Gold Packet Ball Lantern
I found it very difficult to explain it with pictures but I found this video instead. Let’s watch this video and I’m sure you’ll be able to make your very own beautiful ball lantern using red packets 😀
A friend of mine requested me to make it round, like a ball without those spikes. What you need to do is just follow the steps shown in the video, and after you are done, just fold the spikes and staple them.
Staple as shown above. Your lantern will turn out lovely 😀
Let’s go sailing today 🙂
Egg carton sail boat
We’ll need some colored corrugated papers, egg carton and wooden sticks
Draw a triangle on a drawing board and paint on both sides
Once dry, cut and paste on a wooden stick
Use a single hole punch and punch a hole in the middle of the egg carton
Paste corrugated paper to cover the egg carton
Place the wooden stick with the sail in the hole and sit two eggs in your sail boat 🙂
We are ready to sail 😀
Oh Mac Donald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O,
And on his farm he has some chickens,
E-I-E-I-O,
With the cluck, cluck here, cluck, cluck there…
Alright, let’s just get to business 😛
Hand and footprint Chicken
Trace your footprint on a piece of yellow paper
Trace your handprint on orange and red paper
Paste the footprint onto the handprints
Add eyes, beak and all and your chicken is done 🙂
To usher the New Year of the Rabbit, let’s make a cute rabbit today 😀
Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit
Cut three rings out of a toilet paper roll
Glue two rings together
Glue the 2 rings to the third ring
Cut two ears out of the envelope of your Chinese New Year card greetings (or you can simply use pink paper :P)
Paste the ears and cut two eyes out of white envelope. I’m trying to recycle all I can here 😀
Paste the eyes
Tie a gold string and hang. You may want to paint the toilet roll white before you start if you have the time 😀
This Chinese New Year, let’s have beautiful goldfish accompanying us 😀 We’ll need only 6 red packets, oops, in this case, gold packets.
Gold Packet Gold Fish
We’ll only need two folding methods. 3 packets for each fold.
Fold both edges, leaving a small gap in the middle.
On the opposite end, fold both edges, leaving no gap in the middle.
You’ll need to fold 3 packets according to the above folding method.
Pick the part with the gap and staple so all three are attached to each other.
It should look like this.
Turn them out
See the fold line? You’ll need to cut the triangle out but do not cut on the line. Leave a little space.
Cut only one side. Leave the other untouched. Do not throw away the small triangle as you’ll need it later for the fins.
Cut the second packet. Cut only on one side too.
Cut the third packet. This time, cut both sides. You’ll now have 4 little triangles.
Fold the remaining 3 packets into half
Fold as shown above
Fold again as shown above and repeat on the other side
Fold all three packets using the above folding method.
Staple them side by side together
Place the tail in between the two packets.
Staple on one side
Staple on the other side too
Take 2 triangles
And staple as the fin
Staple the body shut
Staple as shown above
Insert your finger to puff up the fish
Take another small triangle and staple
Repeat on the other side
Staple it totally shut
Open up the tail
Cut two eyes out of white paper and draw the black eye and paste
I like to use this glass stone purchased from IKEA for the ‘fish eye’ effect.
Simply glue the glass stone onto the eyes and you are done 😀
You may also use red packets (ang bao) if you do not have gold packets 🙂
Still don’t get it? Watch this video 😀
We are going to make a Star out of red packets today 😀
Red Packet Lucky Star Lantern
Fold ten red packets as shown above.
It should look like a diamond from the back
Staple five diamond shape red packets to form a star.
Make two sets.
Staple the two sets together and you’ll get a lovely LUCKY star lantern.
An auspicious decor for Chinese New Year 😀 Tie a gold string so you can hang it.
Add a beautiful tassle to make your star a lovely one 🙂
Ang Pow Lucky Star lantern
Let’s make a snake today 😀
Origami Snake
Fold a square paper half
Fold half again and open.
Fold two ends to meet in the middle.
Fold again.
Open up the previous folds. With the lines as a guide, fold as shown in the picture.
Fold down.
Fold up again.
Do the same for the top.
Fold them together and you'll get your origami snake 🙂
Toilet Paper Roll Oranges
Cut a toilet paper roll into rings
Cut a circle out of a paper plate and paste onto the ring
Paint it orange
We did three oranges 🙂
Cut a leaf out of green felt and paste on the oranges
Frame them up and they’ll be a nice wall decor this Chinese New Year 😀
Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:
2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern
5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker
7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet
8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament
10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament
11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament
12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom
15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune
16) Ang Pow Koi Fish
We need to eat a lot of popsicles to do this 😀
Craft stick stationery holder
Get a toilet paper roll tube, the bigger the better.
Draw a circle on a hardboard box, cut and paste.
Spread some glue
Put an elastic band in the middle and insert the craft sticks.
The band is to hold the sticks in place.
Glue the craft stick all around the toilet paper roll tube.
Tie a string around it.
And you are done. You may also add some little bugs as deco.
Chinese New Year is around the corner so let’s do some paper cuts today. Let’s start with the word SPRING 😀
Spring has arrived
Get a square paper
Fold half
Fold half again
Write the character Spring on the paper as shown above
Cut. Cut a small hole at the top and tie a thread through it.
We should use red or gold thread but I did the above in my working place
and so happen to be running out on those two so I made do with white 🙁
Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:
2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern
5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker
7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet
8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament
10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament
11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament
12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom
15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune
16) Ang Pow Koi Fish
Let’s do handprinting again 🙂 Remember the Octopus we did? Since we are in the mood for octopus, let’s make a handprint Octopus 🙂
Handprint Octopus
Paint four fingers and your palm. Stamp on a piece of paper. Paint again and stamp again so that your octopus has 8 tentacles.
Paint your fingertip white and stamp as the eyes.
Use a black marker to draw the eye balls and mouth and the octopus is done 🙂
