By Merryn | Posted on 13-08-2012 | 10,594 views
Categories Animal Crafts, Bird, Egg Carton, Hand and Footprint Art
Tags: egg carton, handprint art, owl craft
Howdy craftiers! Sorry for the long absence. It’s been some time now since our last hand print art, hasn’t it? Let’s make this cute handprint owl art today 🙂 Handprint Egg Carton Owl Paint your palm brown. Stamp it onto a piece of drawing art block. Cut the eyes and beak out of an egg […]
By Merryn | Posted on 08-07-2012 | 18,338 views
Categories Animal Crafts, Chinese New Year, Fish
Tags: koi fish
The kids painted koi fish today in the Studio. It’s super easy even a toddler can do it! 😀 Koi fish (Japanese carp) painting I drew and cut out two templates (as shown above) for each of the kids. Get the kids to paint the entire drawing block blue using sponge. My kid insists to […]
By Merryn | Posted on 25-06-2012 | 22,845 views
Categories Craft from Recycled Materials, Toilet Paper Roll
Tags: holiday craft, snorkeling, toilet
Inspired by FamilyFun’s dyed egg scuba diver craft, we improvised and came out with this: Snorkeling pencil holder We’ll need a large toilet paper roll, a sauce cup, a straw and a rubber band for this craft. Glue the toilet paper roll onto a cardboard. Paint the toilet paper roll. Draw circles. Use paper punch […]
By Merryn | Posted on 18-06-2012 | 8,504 views
Categories Craft Foam, Crafts by Materials, Father's Day, Ladybug, Mother's Day, Teacher's Day
Tags: foam craft
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 12-06-2012 | 8,052 views
Categories Animal Crafts, Bookmark, Butterfly, Insect crafts, Paper Crafts
Tags: Stationery
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 20-05-2012 | 7,626 views
Categories Crafts by Materials, Crafty Crafted Friends, Crepe Paper
Tags: paper flower
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 18-05-2012 | 7,583 views
Categories Art Crafts
Tags: color play
When you are caught in a moment of boredom and not know what to do, try this simple but fun project. Cut any shapes out of hard-board paper or you can just use leaf, branches or anything to place on the drawing block. Dip toothbrush into paint and rub the bristles. Colours will splash out […]
By Merryn | Posted on 14-05-2012 | 5,952 views
Categories Animal Crafts, Crafts by Materials, Crafty Crafted Friends, Easter, Felt, Festive Crafts, Rabbit
Tags: felt craft, rabbit craft
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 29-04-2012 | 10,586 views
Categories Animal Crafts, Bee, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafts by Materials, Crepe Paper, Mother's Day, Toilet Paper Roll
Tags: Mother's Day
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 06-04-2012 | 15,801 views
Categories Animal Crafts, Cotton, Crafts by Materials, Easter, Festive Crafts, Lamb
Tags: Easter, lamb craft
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 03-04-2012 | 6,897 views
Categories Craft from Recycled Materials, Easter, Festive Crafts, Toilet Paper Roll
By Merryn | Posted on 23-03-2012 | 8,053 views
Categories Art Crafts
Tags: Sponge painting
We are taking a break from toilet paper rolls and egg carton crafts. Today, we are back to basics with simple sponge painting. I gave the kids in the Studio sponges and get them to sponge blue paint all over the paper. Then, using cute underwater creatures template, they started painting all over the paper. […]
By Merryn | Posted on 05-03-2012 | 11,638 views
Categories Animal Crafts, Crafts by Materials, Crepe Paper, Food craft, Paper Crafts
Tags: Paper Twisting
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! […]
By Merryn | Posted on 22-02-2012 | 7,416 views
Categories Beads, Craft from Recycled Materials, Crafty Crafted Friends, Insect crafts
Tags: Bugs
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 20-02-2012 | 14,795 views
Categories Corrugated Paper, Craft from Recycled Materials, Paper Crafts
Tags: Outer Space
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. […]
By Merryn | Posted on 13-02-2012 | 4,624 views
Categories Craft from Recycled Materials, Print Art, Toilet Paper Roll, Valentine's Day
Tags: HP Inkjet Printer, Valentine's Day
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 07-02-2012 | 11,703 views
Categories Crafts by Materials, Crepe Paper, Festive Crafts, Paper Crafts, Shapes, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day Crafts
Tags: heart shape, Valentine's Day
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 30-01-2012 | 19,436 views
Categories Chinese New Year, Festive Crafts, Paper Crafts, Print Art
Tags: Chinese New Year craft, HP Inkjet Printer
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 […]
By Merryn | Posted on 16-01-2012 | 27,926 views
Categories Animal Crafts, Chinese New Year, Festive Crafts, Fridge Magnets
Tags: Chinese New Year craft
Let’s make a Dragon art today 🙂 Dragon fridge magnet. Super simple and a fun craft to make. Print out a dragon head and a tail. I got the dragon head and tail template from here. Paint them and cut when dry. Cut a strip of paper and paste three magnets along it. Paste the […]