We will be celebrating Chinese New Year of the OX in 2021. It may be a little early but here we are sharing video tutorials on how to DIY OX from CNY lucky red packets. They are really simple to make so do try it out yourselves:
A whole fish is a staple for Chinese New Year celebrations as it is intended to welcome prosperity for the entire year ahead. This is the reason fish is widely used in making Chinese New Year decorations. Here are 7 tutorial videos on how to make FISH decor out of lucky red packets:
Besides fish, flowers is also a popular element in making Chinese New Year angpow decor. Here are several video tutorials on how to make red packet flowers.
Christmas is fast approaching. Due to the pandemic that is affecting everyone globally, some of us would not be able to get a white Christmas where we are at. Desperate times call for desperate measures. If we can’t go to a white Christmas, let’s MAKE a white Christmas!
Here’s an easy recipe to get our kids in the mood. Let them build a snowman with some snowballs and eat it too.
This is one of the simplest and delicious cookies to make for Christmas. No mixer required.
Ingredients: 1 cup plain flour 1 cup assorted nuts (Pecan, Walnut, Almond) 1/2 cup salted butter 3 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Powdered sugar
Method:
Combine flour, nuts, butter, sugar and vanilla extract Press them together and knead until it they form a soft dough Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes Shape into balls and bake at 170C for 20 minutes Roll the balls in powdered sugar while they are still warm Let them cool for 15 minutes and roll in sugar again To make a snowman, use condensed milk to stick chocolate chips as the eyes, carrot as the nose and chocolate rice as the mouth
Watch this tutorial video to see how simple it is to make a Snowman and Snowballs cookies:
I just realized we have not been updating this blog since late last year. That is what Motherhood does to me. I hardly have time to craft with my kids but as the little one will be turning TWO next month, I’m sure we’ll be updating frequently as he is at the best age to be crafting with his little fingers 😀
For today, I’ll just be sharing a greeting card my elder boy did in school for the upcoming Hari Raya festival. Hari Raya AidilFitri is an important celebration by Muslims.
He made a ‘ketupat’ using crepe paper on the front of his card.
This is a great school holiday crafts for kids. Today we will be transforming a simple plastic bottle into a cool Airplane Pencil Case.
Papier Mache Airplane Pencil Case
– Slit open an empty plastic bottle.
– Cut wings and tail out of old carton boxes and tape them onto the bottle
– Cut strips of old newspaper into small pieces and soak them in water
– Glue paper all over the entire bottle with the last layer being plain white paper.
– Let dry overnight
Paint the airplane and glue a 20cm zipper around the opening.
The Papier Mache Airplane Pencil Case is ready for your kids to show off to friends when school reopens ^_^
Posted by Merryn | Posted in Festive Crafts | Posted on 07-11-2012 | 14,072 views
The year end is coming and that only means lots and lots of celebrating and partying coming up. It’s nice to have a DIY bowl sitting on the table with some candies in it, isn’t it? Let’s make one today.
Yarn bowl
Wrap the bowl with plastic.
Dip yarn in white glue and arrange onto the bowl.
Keep repeating until you have covered almost 90% of the bowl.
Halloween is just around the corner. Let’s start preparing for ‘Trick or Treat’.
We don’t need to burn a hole in our pocket this festive season. Just DIY what we can. For this Halloween Goodie Bag, all we need is brown paper bag and black sugar paper.
DIY Halloween Trick or Treat Bag
First, draw any creepy Halloween features on the black sugar paper. Let your child cut it out. You may need to assist him/her if they are not ready to handle the scissors yet.
Apply glue to one side of the sugar paper.
Paste onto the brown bag. Decorate as you wish.
The Halloween Goodie bag is ready. You may also use brown bags with handles.
It’s Father’s Day today. The kids did a foam picture frame to present to their father (or mother as it is after all Parents’ Month this month)
DIY Foam Picture Frame.
You’ll need half an A4 size of coloured craft foam. Place a smaller rectangle paper in the middle of that craft foam and draw a line along it.
Cut according to the line.
Paste a sheet of plastic over the cut out hole. Stick using cellophane tape.
Paste a coloured construction paper on a piece of rectangle hard board card. Paste double layered tape as shown above.
Paste the rectangle craft foam over the hard board card. Punch two holes on the hardboard card and tie ribbon.
Decorate as you wish. I’ve always loved ladybug as I believe it brings good luck. Refer here for the foam ladybug tutorial.
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.
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I’ve always loved the fine art of pottery. I wish to try pottery with the students but I can’t find a good enough clay yet.
In the meantime, remember the kids’ paper twisting project previously? Refer to it here. Let’s get them to train their ‘pottery’ skills using crepe paper instead 🙂
We will need a large toilet paper roll. Glue a cardboard at the base and let dry.
We’ll need lots of strips of crepe paper.
Twisting crepe paper is good to train the little kids’ motor skills and coordination.
Apply glue on the toilet paper roll and paste the twisted crepe paper, rolling and repeating with new strips of paper until you’ve covered the entire roll.
The kids busy with their masterpiece.
The completed crepe paper pencil holder.
The kiddo decorated it to be a colourful alien bunny ^_^
Another kid did this creative BEE!
Aren’t they beautiful? I’d be very proud to have them on my working station 🙂
It’s Good Friday today. Are you done decorating your eggs for Easter? Inspired by DisneyFamilyFun, we did this little cutie lamb today 🙂
Easter Egg Lamb
Our little artist has just started learning the piano and one of his favourite piece is Mary has a Little Lamb. He learned this piece from YouTube. Watch him play here 😀
Since he is loving lambs so much, it is only appropriate to make one to accompany him <3
All you need are: * an empty egg shell * a black straw for the legs * colored paper for the ears (I cut out from old magazine) * cotton balls * glue
Cut the straws
Glue onto the egg
Paste cotton all over the lamb leaving the front part empty for the face
Draw eyes and mouth
The Easter Egg family is expanding 😀 Check out our previous post on making the Easter Egg Mickey Mouse here.
It’s Valentine’s Day in a few minutes time. We did a Valentine craft today. It is a Valentine’s Torch.
While we were thinking of what we wanted to project on the wall, I asked my boy what he knows about Valentine’s Day. His answer is simply CUPID! I do not know how to draw a cupid. Thank goodness we have a printer that we can simply google for a picture of cupid and print it out!
To see how you can turn these printouts:
Into a torch shown below:
You’ll need to check out this short 4 mins video of how my boy turned a simple printout into an amazing torch! 🙂 The only thing I did was to cut the objects out for him. Enjoy!
