Let’s make a super simple heart mobile today 🙂 Valentine’s Heart Mobile Refer to our post here and cut two hearts out of coloured construction paper. I prefer to use papers of different colours. Cut a slit to the centre of the heart, one slit on the bottom half of the heart and the other […]
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Let’s make a lovely heart stand today 😀 Valentine’s Heart Stand We’ll need two hard construction paper Cut a circle out of each construction paper. Cut a slit through in the middle end on both the paper. Slide the paper together, top to bottom. Cut a heart shape […]
Craft sticks can be used to make beautiful decorative items. Today, let’s make an insect garden 🙂 Craft Stick Insect Garden – You’ll need 8 craft sticks. – Arrange them as shown above and glue to keep them in place. Refer here for the ladybug instructions and here for the bee instructions. – Cut some […]
Chinese New Year will be celebrated on the 3rd February 2011, just a couple of days away 😀 We are getting really excited and let’s have a look at the kids making rabbit art to usher the New Year of Rabbit! A couple of rabbits to usher the New Year of Rabbit Look for a […]
Mek…. Mek…. My first time attempting a goat craft 😛 Toilet roll goat Paint a toilet roll brown Use cotton as the beard and foam and felt for the rest. Mek Mek is done. I’d prefer the ears to be slimmer and eyes not too big though 😛
We are making an auspicious Ancient Coin Lantern using red packets today 🙂 Ang Pao Ancient Coin Lantern You’ll need to fold 16 packets of ang paos as shown above – fold all four edges. Staple them together to get 4 of the above Staple them together to get the above Arrange and staple them […]
I made some beautiful ball lanterns and many have requested for me to share the steps here. Red Packet Ball Lantern Gold Packet Ball Lantern I found it very difficult to explain it with pictures but I found this video instead. Let’s watch this video and I’m sure you’ll be able to make your very […]
Let’s go sailing today 🙂 Egg carton sail boat We’ll need some colored corrugated papers, egg carton and wooden sticks Draw a triangle on a drawing board and paint on both sides Once dry, cut and paste on a wooden stick Use a single hole punch and punch a hole in the middle of the […]
Oh Mac Donald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O, And on his farm he has some chickens, E-I-E-I-O, With the cluck, cluck here, cluck, cluck there… Alright, let’s just get to business 😛 Hand and footprint Chicken Trace your footprint on a piece of yellow paper Trace your handprint on orange and red paper Paste the footprint […]
To usher the New Year of the Rabbit, let’s make a cute rabbit today 😀 Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit Cut three rings out of a toilet paper roll Glue two rings together Glue the 2 rings to the third ring Cut two ears out of the envelope of your Chinese New Year card greetings (or […]
This Chinese New Year, let’s have beautiful goldfish accompanying us 😀 We’ll need only 6 red packets, oops, in this case, gold packets. Gold Packet Gold Fish We’ll only need two folding methods. 3 packets for each fold. Fold both edges, leaving a small gap in the middle. On the opposite end, fold both edges, […]
We are going to make a Star out of red packets today 😀 Red Packet Lucky Star Lantern Fold ten red packets as shown above. It should look like a diamond from the back Staple five diamond shape red packets to form a star. Make two sets. Staple the two sets together and you’ll get […]
Toilet Paper Roll Oranges Cut a toilet paper roll into rings Cut a circle out of a paper plate and paste onto the ring Paint it orange We did three oranges 🙂 Cut a leaf out of green felt and paste on the oranges Frame them up and they’ll be a nice wall decor this […]
We need to eat a lot of popsicles to do this 😀 Craft stick stationery holder Get a toilet paper roll tube, the bigger the better. Draw a circle on a hardboard box, cut and paste. Spread some glue Put an elastic band in the middle and insert the craft sticks. The band is to […]
Chinese New Year is around the corner so let’s do some paper cuts today. Let’s start with the word SPRING 😀 Spring has arrived Get a square paper Fold half Fold half again Write the character Spring on the paper as shown above Cut. Cut a small hole at the top and tie a thread […]
Still in the beads mood, Ethan requested for a car for each of us. That means I have to make 3 cars! OK, here goes… Pyssla beads nicely arranged. Now all it needs is some ironing 😀 My pink car and Ethan’s blue car. Nice? 😛 He loves his brand new car. Wait till you […]
Today’s art work is very simple yet beautiful – fingerprint cherry blossoms. Fingerprint Cherry Blossoms Paint the branches and let dry Dip your fingers or thumb into pink paint Start stamping all over Nice Cherry Blossoms for the Chinese New Year 🙂 Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections: 1) Red packet […]
Let’s start working on Chinese New Year decorations 😀 Today, we are going to use toilet paper roll and some red packets to make a fire cracker 🙂 Red packet toilet paper roll fire cracker Cut two circles out of a red packet Paste on both ends of the toilet paper roll Take a cute […]