The children are back at school and with that, they’ll need bookmarks for their studies. We made these AMONG US origami bookmarks yesterday. My youngest boy brought them to school and immediately his classmates requested for them too. My boy happily told them, “Okay, my Mummy will help to make them for all of you”
Oh boy…
Let’s make an origami bird today. This bird can perch on your fingers or literally anything. You can place it on a tree branch or cable and see it rocking. All you need is a square paper and a pair of googly eyes for this. I used brown paper to achieve that natural look.
Watch this tutorial video to see how to make this simple origami perching bird.
I’m not a gamer hence I have no idea what AMONG US is all about. But my sons love this game and the younger one requested for me to make an IMPOSTER paper craft toy for him the other day. So I did. I used coloured paper, a cloth peg and glue for this craft. Watch the video to see how I made this Among Us Imposter paper craft.
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.
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:
DIY YEAR OF THE OX ANGPOW ENVELOPE
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.
DIY ANGPOW FLOWER BALL 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 ANGPOW LANTERN TREE ORNAMENT
DIY ANGPOW LANTERN TREE ORNAMENT ORIGAMI
Today’s footprint craft is a remake of our footprint popsicle we did back in 2011 with the elder brother.
The younger brother wanted to do it too but is too young to trace his own footprint and cut it out and got the big brother to help him out.
The little one is able to apply the glue onto the popsicle stick himself.
And paste the paper footprint on it.
He also wanted to EAT it! 😀
Watch this video of the boys making this footprint popsicle craft:
We are starting something new. We’ll be making and sharing videos of the kids crafting.
This is their first ever craft video, making Torn Paper Apple Art. Enjoy 😀
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.
For more details, please click here.
It has been quite some time since we last made a paper plate craft hasn’t it? Let’s make a super simple paper plate craft today. Let’s make a penguin 🙂
Paper Plate Penguin
All we need is just ONE piece of white paper plate.
Fold two sides as the wings.
Paint the folded area black.
Add eyes, beak and feet and your penguin is done!
This is a really fun craft that doesnt require any fancy materials. You’ll most likely have everything already at home. It’s also ‘magical’ and I’m sure your kids will love it!
Amazing Balancing Butterfly Craft
Materials needed:
Coloured Paper
Card board from cereal boxes (or any other box)
Glue
Coins
Fold a coloured paper half. Draw one half of a butterfly making sure the top wings are way above the butterfly head to enable it to balance. This is also a good time to teach your child about the centre of gravity.
Cut and paste onto the card board. Cut again.
Decorate the butterfly.
Paste a coin each on the back of the top wings.
The butterfly should be able to balance itself now.
It can balance almost anywhere.
Your kids will have a whole lot of fun balancing the butterfly everywhere!
You can also make a balancing bird instead of a butterfly.
It’s just as beautiful and fun to play with. This is a great craft to make at any parties 🙂
It’s the school holidays now so let’s make an origami whale.
OK so it’s the school holidays and I just wanted to do something different with my entry. Hehe. This is not my usual entry. There is no step-by-step instructions but just comic of my two kids because I’ve posted a step-by-step instructions on how to fold an origami whale back in 2009. If you need the full instructions, click here.
Today we will be making a face mask or rather an eye mask from colored construction paper.
Construction Paper Face Mask
You’ll need construction papers of various colors.
Trace your hand onto two different colored paper.
Cut. Cut a hole in the middle for the eyes to see.
Paste them together.
Decorate.
Paste a chopstick at the back and your handprint face mask is done!
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 tutorial here.
Happy Halloween!
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 been some time since our last papier mache project so let’s make one today.
Papier mache snake hook
Cut an S shape out of a hard board.
Roll some old newspapers and secure them on the S template using masking tape. Repeat on another side.
Use masking tape and tape all over the newspaper.
Tear old newspapers. Soak them in water. Apply PVA glue and paste all over the masking tape. Repeat several layers. Let dry.
Paint the snake and let dry. Once dry you can use it to hang some lightweight stuffs 😀
During the school holidays, I brought our little crafty boy to the mall for some fun holiday crafts. They did a pencil topper that day.
My boy was given this piece of hard construction printed paper. He coloured it.
I thought he did a great job at coloring the horse! 😀
He then applied glue all over and placed a pencil in the middle.
Fold, seal and let dry.
He loves it so much that he wanted to make more for his teachers so he can give them when school reopens. We printed our own pictures and he did a few..
Watch this video of him printing and making a Butterfly Pencil Topper 🙂
We did a simple paper twisting project today.
Paper Twist Apple
All we need are crepe papers and PVA glue. Twist crepe papers.
Paste and shape according to your liking. He is trying to make an apple there 😀
While another girl did snakes and their nest filled with eggs! Simple but lots of fun! 😀
My boy loves the outer space. He found this picture online the other day.
He loves it so much that he printed it out. Since he loves it very much I thought of converting it into a piece of art.
We managed to make the above inspired by the picture that he printed out earlier.
We’ll need lots of recycled cardboard boxes. What I did was to cut the shapes of planets, meteorite and more out of those boxes. We brought those cut-outs to the Studio.
Got the kids to glue the shapes onto hard construction paper.
Paint the paper with lots of colors and let dry.
Lit a candle and drop the wax all over.
Paint over the wax drops. Paint the planets and the frame.
The artwork after painting. Let dry.
This is the fun part. Once dry, use a coin to scrape the wax off the paper to reveal colorful dots.
The kids and their space art 😀 Houston, we DON’T have a problem 😛
Valentine’s Day is around the corner. Let’s make a puffy heart today <3
Valentine’s Puffy Heart
Referring to our post here, cut a heart out of hard construction paper to be used as the template. Let the kids trace the outline of the heart on white hard construction paper.
Cut the heart out. Younger kids might need assistance in cutting the heart.
Paint the heart red. Let dry. Repeat on the other side.
Using a hole punch, punch a hole on the heart.
Cut long strips out of crepe paper. Cut again into small squares.
Crumple the crepe papers squares into tiny balls. You’ll need plenty of these.
Spread PVA Glue on one side of the heart.
Scatter the crepe paper balls onto the heart and press down to secure them. Repeat on the other side.
Tie a gold string through the hole and the Valentine’s Puffy Heart craft is done 🙂
I was a pre-school teacher when I was expecting my little artist Ethan. It was always my intention to continue teaching and remain in the working force. All that changed the moment I laid hand on my baby in the Operating Theatre. I submitted my resignation and vowed to be the best mother a mom can be to my son. I live with this mantra in my head – “A parent is a child’s first teacher”.
My love for art and crafts helps create that special bond between Ethan and I. We started crafting together when he was 12 months old and it helps in his motor and fine skills development tremendously. Initially we’ll hang up his masterpieces in the Art Room in the house. Overtime, we ran out of walls.
That is when crafty-crafted.com was born; to immortalize his artwork and also to share our ideas with other mommies out there. That was 3 years ago.
A week ago, we finally got ourselves a colour printer. We chose a HP colour inkjet printer. I need not limit his creativity to only water paint and crayons anymore. He can now print out stuffs that he created online.
For a start, with the Chinese New Year around the corner Ethan did his first printing craftwork.
Personalised Ang Pow Packet
He personalised his very own red packets to be given to his grandparents. Let’s have a look at how he does it 😀
A+ #1 – First, choose a picture of the person you are giving the Ang Pow to. This is easily done by stalking their Facebook account 😛 I helped Ethan to get the pictures of my nieces from my sisters’ FB account and saved them in my PC.
A+ #2 – Ethan chose the pictures that he likes best and starts printing. Mind you, he did it all by himself as shown in the video at the end of this post!
A+ #3 – Quickly and silently, our new HP printer did the job. Excellent!
A+ #4 – Take an old Ang Pow packet and tear it open to be used as a template. Trace the outline according to the template.
A+ #5 – The personalised Ang Pow is slowly taking shape.
A+ #6 – Cut accordingly. Please assist your child if he has yet to master the art of cutting with a pair of scissors.
A+ #7 – The personalised Ang Pow cut out.
A+ #8 – Fold accordingly and paste.
A+ #9 – The personalised Ang Pow is done!
A+ #10 – Ethan personalised Ang Pows for all his cousin sisters and even did some of himself to be given to his grandparents 😀
Lovely isn’t it? We are highly impressed with the printout. It looked so natural and beautiful, we are definitely going to do more print art in the future!
I am an A+ mom and so can you!
Watch the video of Ethan printing his very own personalized Ang Pow.
