Our first paper flower project was back in 2010 when we did crepe paper carnations. See full details here.
Today, whitneywpanetta of Look Between the Lines shared with us a lovely tissue paper puff project.

Click here for full tutorial.
Thank you Whitney for sharing this lovely craft work with us.
You too can share your art and craft work with us. Just click here to submit. Thank you
Michael Ann of Michael Ann Made shared with us this cute little bunny felt craft. This could be a fun craft to do with your kids who want to learn to sew by enlarging the pattern a few percent on a copy machine, and using yarn and a yarn sewing needle to stitch it together. The full tutorial and pattern can be found here.

This craft requires adult’s supervision as the use of needle is needed.
Thank you Michael Ann for this lovely sharing.
You too can share your art and craft work with us. Just click here to submit. Thank you
Yvonne of MyDiaryMyBlog shared with us this cute craft made by her kids from recycling old buttons taken out from old clothings. All they needed were old buttons, UHU glue, sequins and soft wires.

This craft requires adult’s supervision as buttons and tiny sequins are being used. Please ensure the little ones do not put them into their mouth.
Thank you Yvonne for the lovely craft out of recycled items. Click here for the full entry.
You too can share your art and craft work with us. Just click here to submit. Thank you
Victoria of Reuse Craft shared with us this her kids’ lovely Cardboard Christmas Tree using painted cardboard, recycled beads, toilet paper roll covered with fabric scraps and a star made out of an empty coffee capsule.

Thank you Victoria for the lovely Christmas craft. Click here to check out Victoria’s entry.
You too can share your art and craft work with us. Just click here to submit. Thank you
Victoria of Reuse Crafts shared with us this beautiful egg carton flowers craft.

Egg Carton Flowers
Thank you Victoria for the wonderful idea. Click here to check out Victoria’s entry.
You too can share your art and craft work with us. Just click here to submit. Thank you 
Posted by Merryn | Posted in Crafty Crafted Friends | Posted on 09-08-2011 | 9,205 views
Roopa of Putti Prapancha shared with us this beautiful art work by stamping with cut straws.

Roopa says, “Cut one end of drinking straws to make star shape and dip it into paint and then stamp on paper to create stars, flowers, fire works and anything else”
Easy peasy and very lovely indeed. Thank you Roopa for sharing with us this beautiful artwork. Click here for the full instruction on stamping with cut straws.
You too can share your art and craft work with us. Just click here to submit. Thank you 😀
Kate Gribble of An Amazing Child shared this beautiful Paper Towel Butterfly Mobile 😀
This activity uses paper towel and food colouring (paint). It is perfect for toddlers. The paint spreads beautifully across the paper and once dry, can be cut into any shape you like. This mobile was made by Kate and her 27 month old son for her 11 week old daughter.

Click here for the full instruction. Thank you Kate for sharing this amazing craft. We love it!
Share your craft with us. Submit your craft and permalink here. Thank you 🙂
Posted by Merryn | Posted in Crafty Crafted Friends | Posted on 05-07-2011 | 4,767 views
Jamie of hands on : as we grow shared this beautiful Yarn Circle Garland craft with us. Jamie says, “Crafts sometimes take different shape than originally intended. Most of the time they end up with a better outcome.
This beautiful garland is made from only yarn and glue and the help of a muffin tin, all by my preschooler.”

Click here for the full instruction. Thank you Jamie for sharing your craft with us. We really appreciate it. 🙂
Posted by Merryn | Posted in Crafty Crafted Friends | Posted on 12-05-2011 | 5,705 views
Jamie of hands on: as we grow shared this fabulous Ribbon Throw Painting art 🙂

Click here for the full instruction. Thank you Jamie for sharing this abstract art 😀
You may click here for more abstract art ideas 🙂
Posted by Merryn | Posted in Crafty Crafted Friends | Posted on 26-04-2011 | 7,291 views
Putti Amma of Putti Prapancha shared with us this interesting craft called wool webbies 😀

Wool Webbies
Click here for full instruction. Thank you Putti Amma for the craft 🙂
You might want to click here for lots of SPIDER crafts ideas 😀
The little sprouts of My Little Sprouts did this awesome papier mache pottery.

Papier Mache pottery

To learn how you can turn these balloons into pots, click here for the full instruction.
Thank you My Little Sprouts for sharing your creative pottery art with us 😀
We had a very fun time making this giraffe today 😀

Toilet Paper Roll Giraffe

You will need four toilet paper rolls and one kitchen paper roll

Draw a giraffe head and cut. Draw another slightly bigger head, cut and paste to the smaller head.

You’ll get a giraffe head as shown above.

Cut the remaining rolls as shown above.

Glue them all together to get the giraffe.

Paint the giraffe yellow

While waiting for the yellow paint to dry, cut a strip of paper for the giraffe’s mane and paint it brown.

Paint the spots brown

Glue the eyes, mane and tail.

The giraffe is done 😀
Crafty-Crafted Friends, Our Little Corners submitted an equally awesome giraffe craft too.

Click here for the full instruction.
Posted by Merryn | Posted in Crafty Crafted Friends, Food craft | Posted on 22-03-2011 | 6,768 views
Jamie of Hands On : As We Grow submitted this yummy looking Fruity Cheerio Rainbow craft.

Fruity Cheerio Rainbow
For full instruction on how to make this interesting rainbow, click here.
Thank you Jamie for sharing this craft with us 😀
Finas of My Learning World did this cute paper plate chick 🙂

She painted 3 paper plates (of different sizes) yellow.
Glue the small plate to the bigger plate.
Cut the beak, wings and feet from the remaining paper plate and glue.
Shred tissue paper and paste as the feathers.
Paste eyes and cottons and there you have it, a cute paper plate chick 😀
Thank you My Learning World for sharing this simple craft with us 🙂
Milton of Our Little Corners did some really cute Gift Box Christmas Tree Hanging Decor.

You need not spend a fortune to decorate your Christmas tree. Click here for instructions on how to make these cute Christmas Tree decor 😀
Victoria Ruby Azevedo gave me this idea through our Facebook Fan Club page and I tried it out with Ethan. This is our outcome 🙂

Toilet Paper Roll Tree

Paint the toilet paper roll brown

Let it dry

Cut a tree top out of a green foam

Use a single hole punch, punch out red little 'apples' 😀

Glue the 'apples' onto the tree top

Cut a slit on both opposite sides

Insert the tree top and your toilet paper roll tree is done 🙂
Thank you Victoria for the great idea 😀
Milton of Our Little Corners did some really wickedly awesome Halloween props!

Bloody Knife – This is MY personal favourite 😀
Click here to learn how to make this horrifying cool props.

Mouse Ear and Nose
Click here for the full entry

Shrek headgear
Click here to learn how to make this 🙂
Thank you Milton for allowing me to share these here and Happy Halloween to all our readers out there 🙂
Posted by Merryn | Posted in Art Crafts, Crafty Crafted Friends | Posted on 06-10-2010 | 10,533 views

A Crafty-Crafted Friend’s submission of lovely potato stamp art 🙂
Milton of Our Little Corners is such a cool brother. He does art and craft with his younger siblings. Today, he’s sharing their potato stamp fun art 🙂

Milton used potato, water color, knife and bond paper for this fun art.

Milton’s instruction 🙂
– Get a potato and cut it into half ( with pencil or any pointed material like a small knife)
– Outline your design into the raw surface.
– You can start of with some simple designs like a star, a fish or even a clover leaf.
– Using a small knife, cut around the outline of the design to a depth of 1/4 inch and then cut the background of the shape it self.

– For colors, you can use water colors , which you can mix with a little water.
– Just dip or spread the color with brush and apply it to a suitable surface.

Tadah!
Thank you Milton for spending quality time with your brother doing art projects together. Thank you too for sharing this art work with us 🙂
Teacher’s Day – Time to show our appreciation to the ones who have dedicated their time dedicating our children.
Let’s take a look at what one Crafty-Crafted Friend’s Mommy did for the recent Teacher’s Day celebration.
Here’s what Irene of http://zekerene.blogspot.com did 😀

Teacher's Day Gift

The genius part of her uses the floor tiles as a 'ruler' to measure and cut the material into smaller pieces. See? When crafting, all you need to be is CREATIVE 🙂 No ruler? Improvise. The floor tiles can even act as one! That's totally NEW to me 😀

She got lots of earrings and bracelets from Bali ready

She wrapped them up

And then she made some cards

The beautifully decorated and handwritten cards

Beautifully done 😀
Thank you Irene for the wonderful idea 🙂

A Crafty-Crafted Friend's submission of a cool storage box 🙂
Milton of Our Little Corners must have eaten ‘millions’ of popsicles for this project 😀 You may use craft sticks instead if you can’t get yourself to digest a million popsicles 😛
I’ll let the pictures do all the ‘talking’ here as he has definitely put in a lot of effort in this project! Words just can’t describe them 😀













So lovely, I likey 😀
Thank you Milton 🙂