10 Super Simple DIY Angpao Rabbit Craft for Chinese New Year

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Chinese New Year, Rabbit | Posted on 23-09-2022 | 3,276 views

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We will be welcoming the Year of the Rabbit on January 22, 2023. The rabbit is the fourth in the twelve-year cycle of animals in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

Legend has it the Rabbit was proud and arrogant even of its speed. However, according to the Chinese Zodiac, people who are born in the year of the rabbit are calm and peaceful. The rabbit is also known to be the luckiest out of all the twelve animals. 

When attempting to make Rabbits out of CNY red packets, it is important to portray the rabbits in a lovable manner.

Here are 10 of our most popular Rabbit themed DIY Chinese New Year red packet decor tutorials:

Here’s also a bonus tutorial of Rabbit themed Cherry Blossom Art:

DIY Diwali Paper Diya

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Deepavali, Festive Crafts, Paper Crafts | Posted on 12-09-2022 | 582 views

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Deepavali is a Sanskrit vocabulary meaning a ‘line of lamps’. It is one of the most popular celebrations in India. The festival generally symbolizes the victory of light over darkness. The Indian community light these lamps outside their homes as a symbol to protect them from spiritual darkness.

Let’s make this simple yet lovely paper Diya to celebrate this Festival of Light. All we need are some bright coloured papers, a pair of scissors and glue.

DIY Chinese New Year Red Packet Decor | Year of the TIGER Easy Angpow Decor

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Chinese New Year, Tiger | Posted on 08-12-2021 | 2,376 views

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Here’s another TIGER angpow creation for the upcoming Chinese New Year. This is a simple one that younger children is able to make:

Do also check out the rest of my red packet TIGER creations in my Year of the TIGER playlist

DIY Chinese New Year Red Packet Decor | Year of the TIGER Angpow Decor | My Original Creation

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Chinese New Year, Tiger | Posted on 27-11-2021 | 4,598 views

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Here’s another Chinese New Year Tiger red packet decor tutorial. These cute little tiger ornament is suitable to be placed on tables or counter tops.

DIY Chinese New Year Red Packet Decor | Easy Angpow GOLD INGOT LANTERN

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Chinese New Year | Posted on 11-11-2021 | 1,975 views

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Gold ingot (‘Yuan Bao’ in Chinese) is an ancient Chinese gold medium for exchanging expensive goods. Gold ingots are a symbol of wealth and abundance.

They have a boat-like shape that symbolizes the richness of transportation from one point or to another.

Make this angbao Gold Ingot lantern and place them at the main entrance to allow good chi to flow through the main entry points into your house.

Chinese New Year DIY | Year of the TIGER Orange decoration

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Chinese New Year | Posted on 29-10-2021 | 1,922 views

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Oranges and other citrus fruit – kumquats, tangerines and pomelo are common Chinese New Year gifts because they’re believed to bring good luck and happiness. During Chinese New Year, oranges are widely used as decorations and gifts because it symbolizes good fortune and happiness.

For next year’s Chinese New Year of the TIGER, we can decorate our oranges into cute little tigers. All you need is black construction paper and some gold and pink or red angpow. Watch this video to see how to decorate your oranges into cute little tiger heads to usher the Year of the TIGER:

Ketupat Inspired Hari Raya Paper Craft

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Festive Crafts, Hari Raya | Posted on 14-03-2021 | 2,995 views

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Today we will be learning to make this KETUPAT inspired DIY Hari Raya greeting card. We need two different coloured paper for this project and the skill needed is weaving to get the ketupat finish.

Watch this tutorial video to see how it is done:

Easy Valentine’s Day Heart Craft Idea

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Paper Crafts, Valentine's Day | Posted on 12-02-2021 | 1,601 views

Valentine’s Day is just a couple of days away. Let’s get our kids to celebrate this day of love with this simple paper craft. All we need is some craft pipe cleaners, colour paper, a pair of scissors and glue. 

Watch this tutorial video to see how to make this fun and easy Valentine’s Day craft that you can make together with your children. 

Chinese New Year Plum Blossom Art

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Chinese New Year | Posted on 07-02-2021 | 1,948 views

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Today, we are going to share this simple yet amazingly beautiful Chinese New Year Plum Blossom art.

All we need is a piece of paper, some paint, a paintbrush, a toothbrush and a straw.

First, drop some black paint or ink on the paper. Use the straw to blow the ink to form branches.

Use a toothbrush to sprinkle some colour onto the paper.

You may touch up the branch that is covered by the paint splatters.

Use the back of a brush to dot petals of plum blossoms randomly on the branches.

The result is this beautiful Plum Blossom art piece that you can frame and hang on an auspicious corner of your house.

Watch this video to see how easily Little Ayden made this art. He had so much fun painting this:

30 DIY Chinese New Year Angpow Decor Ideas

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Chinese New Year, Festive Crafts, Paper Crafts | Posted on 19-01-2021 | 3,338 views

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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:

ORIGAMI OX HEAD

DIY ANGPOW OX / COW

DIY CNY OX ANGPOW ORIGAMI

DIY YEAR OF THE OX ANGPOW ENVELOPE

DIY YEAR OF THE OX WALL DECOR

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:

DIY ANGPOW KOI FISH ORIGAMI

DIY CNY FISH ORIGAMI

DIY ANGPOW FISH WALL DECOR

DIY ANGPOW FISH HANGING DECOR

DIY ANGPOW FISH TREE ORNAMENT

DIY 3D ANGPOW KOI FISH

DIY ANGPOW GOLDFISH

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.

DIY ANGPOW FLOWER BALL LANTERN

DIY ANGPOW FLOWER LANTERN

DIY ANGPOW FLOWER TABLE DECOR

DIY ANGPOW FLOWER LANTERN

And here are several other videos on beautiful lanterns and tree ornaments made from lucky red packets:

DIY ANGPOW LUCKY MONEY BAG ORIGAMI

DIY EASY ANGPOW LANTERN

DIY EASY ANGPOW LANTERN

DIY ANGPOW LANTERN

DIY ANGPOW LANTERN

DIY ANGPOW HOPE LANTERN

DIY ANGPOW LANTERN TREE ORNAMENT

DIY ANGPOW LANTERN TREE ORNAMENT ORIGAMI

DIY EASY ANGPOW LANTERN TREE ORNAMENT

DIY ANGPOW STAR LANTERN

DIY CNY FIRE CRACKER DECOR

DIY ANGPOW FAN

DIY ANGPOW BASKET

DIY ANGPOW ANCIENT COIN LANTERN

Snowman / Snowball Christmas Cookies

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Christmas Ideas, Festive Crafts, Snowman, YouTube tutorial | Posted on 09-12-2020 | 1,813 views

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DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN?

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:

Ghost Lollipops

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Festive Crafts, Halloween, YouTube tutorial | Posted on 30-10-2017 | 12,848 views

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It’s Halloween! Happy Halloween to all. 

We made Ghosts out of lollipops today. 

Lollipop ghosts makes a great Halloween treats. 

Here is the tutorial video on how to make this super simple Lollipop Ghosts. 

Chinese New Year Ang Pow Fish

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Chinese New Year, Festive Crafts, Fish | Posted on 03-02-2016 | 9,972 views

Remember our Ang Pow Fish decor we made back in 2010? Well, we improved it recently by adding a tail to it and it is now so much nicer.

Ang Pow Fish

Draw as shown above.

Cut accordingly.

Cut out the tail from another ang pow packet.

Paste it onto the fish.

Add googly eyes and tie a string on it and it is ready to welcome the Lunar New Year 🙂

Angpow Origami Monkey

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Chinese New Year, Festive Crafts, Monkey, Origami, Paper Crafts | Posted on 08-01-2016 | 8,150 views

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Chinese New Year is just a month away and we will be welcoming the Fire Monkey this year.

Let’s make this cute origami monkey to welcome the year of the Monkey.

Cute Angpow Origami Monkey.

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Hari Raya Greeting Card

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Festive Crafts, Hari Raya | Posted on 01-07-2015 | 8,009 views

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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. 

DIY Hari Raya Card for kids

He made a ‘ketupat’ using crepe paper on the front of his card.

Hari Raya Craft

And wrote some festival greetings on the inside. 

Red Packet Lantern

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Chinese New Year, Festive Crafts, Toilet Paper Roll | Posted on 29-12-2014 | 12,180 views

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Chinese New Year is just one and a half month away so let’s start making CNY decorations using red packets.
red packet lantern

For this Red Packet lantern, we’ll be needing TP Rolls too for the core.

angpow lantern

Wrap the TP Roll with red craft paper.

angpow lantern diy

Using only the front part of the red packet wrapper, cut lines down leaving a cm uncut on the top and bottom part.

making own angpow lantern

Paste it on the TP Roll and decorate with dangling ornament.

red packet lantern

Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:

1) Red packet Ball Lantern

2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern

3) Ang Bao Gold Fish

4) Lucky Star Lantern

5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker

6) Chinese Paper Cut – SPRING

7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet

8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament

9) Red Packet Fish Lantern

10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament

11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament

12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom

13) Toilet Paper Roll Orange

14) Chinese New Year Fan

15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune

16) Ang Pow Koi Fish

17) Personalised Ang Pow Packet

18) Angpow Carousel Lantern

19) Angpow Flower Lantern

Bottle Pencil Case

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Bottles, Paper Mache, Papier Mache, Teacher's Day, Vehicle | Posted on 30-05-2013 | 30,627 views

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This is a great school holiday crafts for kids. Today we will be transforming a simple plastic bottle into a cool Airplane Pencil Case.
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Papier Mache Airplane Pencil Case

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– 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

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Paint the airplane and glue a 20cm zipper around the opening.

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The Papier Mache Airplane Pencil Case is ready for your kids to show off to friends when school reopens ^_^

Yarn bowl

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Festive Crafts | Posted on 07-11-2012 | 15,233 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.

Let dry, preferably overnight.

Remove plastic and the yarn bowl is ready 🙂

Halloween Paper Pumpkin

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Halloween, Paper Crafts | Posted on 30-10-2012 | 19,396 views

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Halloween is fast approaching and we hope it’s not to late to share this creation, Halloween Paper Pumpkin.

It’s a great way to decorate your house with these cute little pumpkins. Full written tutorial here.

Watch the video tutorial here:

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Eye Patch

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Festive Crafts, Halloween | Posted on 17-10-2012 | 9,101 views

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We are making Halloween eye patch today.

Halloween eye patch

We’ll need a long rubber band, a white round circle, a medium blue (or any other color of your choice) and a small black circle.

Paste the blue circle onto the white circle. Then, paste the black circle onto the blue circle.

Use a fine red ink pen and draw lines on the white part of the eye.

Cut the rubber band and staple it onto a circle hard board.

Paste another round hard board to cover the staples. Paste the eye on the other side.

The Halloween Eye Patch is now ready! Boo! 😀