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.
Today’s craft is an extremely easy paper spinning top.
All we need are:
a hardboard paper
a toothpick
a needle (to be used to poke a hole)
a pair of scissors
colour pencils and
glueInstruction:1) Cut a circle out of hard board paper. 2) Use a needle to poke a hole in the middle of the circle. 3) Decorate the circle with beautiful colours. 4) Poke a toothpick through the hole in the middle. 5) Secure the toothpick with glue. 6) Leave to dry. 7) Enjoy spinning the top.
Watch this video to see how easy it is to make this paper spinning top craft:
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”
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😛
