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.
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:
In just 3 months’ time we’ll be welcoming the Chinese New Year of the TIGER. Money packets is an important element during Chinese New Year.
Over the years, the Chinese community love to have the current animal zodiac imprinted on the money packets but this time, let us make it ourselves.
Here is the tutorial video on how to DIY your own TIGER money packet for the upcoming Chinese New Year.
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
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.
Chinese New Year is just one and a half month away so let’s start making CNY decorations using red packets.
For this Red Packet lantern, we’ll be needing TP Rolls too for the core.
Wrap the TP Roll with red craft paper.
Using only the front part of the red packet wrapper, cut lines down leaving a cm uncut on the top and bottom part.
Paste it on the TP Roll and decorate with dangling ornament.
Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:
2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern
5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker
7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet
8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament
10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament
11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament
12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom
15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune
16) Ang Pow Koi Fish
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.
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 strip of paper to the Dragon’s head and tail and the fridge magnet is done 😀
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
If you are looking for more simple DIY Chinese New Year decor, click here for lots and lots of Ang Pow decor tutorial.
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 rabbit, preferably from your Chinese New Year greeting cards or any where and cut it out.
We got ours from Craft Haven.
Draw the outline on a drawing block
Cut out the rabbit.
Place the rabbit template onto another drawing block. Secure with masking tape.
Paint the insides of the template
Repeat on the other side or as many times according to how many rabbits you wish to have
Let dry and your rabbits are done.
You may want to finger print some cherry blossoms too.
Nice? 😀
We hung the rabbit art up at our car porch together with the lanterns 😀
Gong Xi Fa Chai to you and family 😀
Here are the list of Chinese New Year crafts we have done:
1) Red packet ancient coin lantern
‘8) Fingerprint Cherry Blossoms
9) Ang Pao Toilet Paper Roll Cracker
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 as shown above
Side view. Add tassel and your lantern is done 😀
If you still don’t get it, watch this video
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 own beautiful ball lantern using red packets 😀
A friend of mine requested me to make it round, like a ball without those spikes. What you need to do is just follow the steps shown in the video, and after you are done, just fold the spikes and staple them.
Staple as shown above. Your lantern will turn out lovely 😀
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 you can simply use pink paper :P)
Paste the ears and cut two eyes out of white envelope. I’m trying to recycle all I can here 😀
Paste the eyes
Tie a gold string and hang. You may want to paint the toilet roll white before you start if you have the time 😀
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, leaving no gap in the middle.
You’ll need to fold 3 packets according to the above folding method.
Pick the part with the gap and staple so all three are attached to each other.
It should look like this.
Turn them out
See the fold line? You’ll need to cut the triangle out but do not cut on the line. Leave a little space.
Cut only one side. Leave the other untouched. Do not throw away the small triangle as you’ll need it later for the fins.
Cut the second packet. Cut only on one side too.
Cut the third packet. This time, cut both sides. You’ll now have 4 little triangles.
Fold the remaining 3 packets into half
Fold as shown above
Fold again as shown above and repeat on the other side
Fold all three packets using the above folding method.
Staple them side by side together
Place the tail in between the two packets.
Staple on one side
Staple on the other side too
Take 2 triangles
And staple as the fin
Staple the body shut
Staple as shown above
Insert your finger to puff up the fish
Take another small triangle and staple
Repeat on the other side
Staple it totally shut
Open up the tail
Cut two eyes out of white paper and draw the black eye and paste
I like to use this glass stone purchased from IKEA for the ‘fish eye’ effect.
Simply glue the glass stone onto the eyes and you are done 😀
You may also use red packets (ang bao) if you do not have gold packets 🙂
Still don’t get it? Watch this video 😀
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 a lovely LUCKY star lantern.
An auspicious decor for Chinese New Year 😀 Tie a gold string so you can hang it.
Add a beautiful tassle to make your star a lovely one 🙂
Ang Pow Lucky Star lantern
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 Chinese New Year 😀
Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:
2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern
5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker
7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet
8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament
10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament
11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament
12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom
15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune
16) Ang Pow Koi Fish
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 through it.
We should use red or gold thread but I did the above in my working place
and so happen to be running out on those two so I made do with white 🙁
Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:
2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern
5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker
7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet
8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament
10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament
11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament
12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom
15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune
16) Ang Pow Koi Fish
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:
2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern
5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker
7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet
8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament
10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament
11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament
12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom
15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune
16) Ang Pow Koi Fish
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 red packet and paste around the toilet roll.
Cut a strip of aluminium foil, twist it and paste on one end of the roll and you are done 😀
Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:
2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern
5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker
7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet
8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament
10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament
11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament
12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom
15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune
16) Ang Pow Koi Fish
Accordion fold red packet butterfly
Cut the red packet as you'll need only a side and not both.
Fold it accordion style. You'll need to do two of this.
Pinch the middle and cut it into two different sizes.
Staple in the middle to secure it.
Spread the wings and your butterfly is done. Use a double sided tape to secure it onto your window panes or wall 🙂
If you have any butterfly ideas, do share it with us here and we’ll link it back to you 🙂
This red packet seashell tree ornament is extremely easy to do. This Chinese New Year, let’s do one 🙂
Red Packet Seashell Tree Ornament
Fold the red packet in half.
Cut the folded side of the packet into strips measuring about 0.5cm each. Make sure you leave about 1 cm around the edges before you start cutting, as you are going to staple the edges together later.
Open up the folded red packet. Bring together two opposite corners and staple them together. Poke a hole through one of the ends, put a thread through it and tie a knot in the end of the thread.
Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections:
2) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern
5) Red Packet Toilet Paper Roll Fire Cracker
7) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet
8 ) Red Packet Sea Shell Tree Ornament
10) Red Packet Fan Tree Ornament
11) Red Packet Fish Tree Ornament
12) Fingerprint Cherry Blossom
15) Angry Bird Ang Pow Wheel of Fortune
16) Ang Pow Koi Fish
