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How to make an award ribbon rosette
This is the front portion of the completed award ribbon rosettes This is the back portion of the completed award ribbon rosettes The girl kept on pestering me to make these award ribbon rosettes with ...
How to make a toilet paper roll robot
"Its a kite.... No..... Its a car with one wheel...... No.... its a dolphin carrying bags..... No..... its a donkey....... No.... Its a garlic toast bread which my 5 year old is having for breakfast."...
Christmas Craft: Making Pop-Up Christmas Cards
Today the kids made pop-up Christmas cards for their aunts. Just for the aunts and none for the uncles as somehow ladies seem to appreciate these things more than the men.We made two types of cards. T...
How to get your kids involved in Arts & Crafts
The kids love to do Arts and Crafts. We have designated Friday as Arts & Crafts Day this school holiday.I did make a lot of effort to introduce Art & Craft to them and get them involved to bri...
More Holiday Time Crafts
Yesterday we did some paper lanterns. The kids requested 3 each! *Wipes forehead* Thank goodness they're easy to do. So they each got their 3 paper lanterns which they decorated with their favourite s...
School Holiday Arts and Crafts
Yesterday we did some drawings and painting and then decorated it with some glitter glue. Glitter glue really brings out a painted picture. We made the painted sun and the clouds and the windows on ae...
Happy Teacher's Day
Since its coming to the end of the term, classes at my girl's kindy seems quite relaxed now. There is no homework. So she looks forward to doing "mummy's lessons" or doing crafts etc.Yesterday we deci...
Kids Craft: Homemade Teacher's Day Card
My girl loves her teacher. With Teacher's Day coming on 16th May 2008, we decided to make a homemade card for her teacher.Its been sometime since we've done any crafts together (although she's always ...
Homemade Party Packs
Since my girl started kindy, she's been coming home with party packs almost every month."Mommy, look I have another party pack. Can I open it now?"and she's almost convinced her little brother to go t...
Freehand drawing
Sometimes when I'm lazy to organise craft time, I just hand the kids some drawing art paper, colored pens or color pencils and tell them "Here, draw anything you like." (and stop disturbing me) .At on...
My Balloon Sculpturing Kit
Suzette asked me to post up pictures of the balloon sculpturing kit I used to make the balloon sculptures I posted recently, so here it is. This is the balloon kit which I bought for RM19.90 at MPH. I...
Balloon Sculpturing Fun
My kids were impressed and happy with the balloon sculture a clown gave them. So kiasu mum here went out and bought a balloon sculpture kit in a can. It comes with balloons, a pump and a step-by-step ...
Experimenting with Crayon Resist Painting
The kids like to do this craft because its like magic. First they have to draw a picture using crayons and then paint the picture with water colors. The picture they drew will then appear like magic w...
More Mirror Image Painting: Mirror Image Twins
We've done mirror image painting before but this time we decided to do it with a little twist. After completing the mirror image painting (by painting and folding the picture into two to get a mirror ...
Today's Craft: Paper Plate Duck
The kids had been pestering me to do more crafts with them so we went to the bookshop over the weekend and bought some new coloured construction papers to add to our art supplies collection. We have ...
Having Fun With Playdoh
Kids have lovely imagination. Let their imagination run wild with playdoh. My kids love playing with playdoh. It gives them hours of fun and me .... hours of free time. Heheh.Recently my girl said she...
Paper Lantern Craft for Lantern Festival
The kids have been pestering me to get them lanterns for the lantern festival, mooncake festival or mid autumn festival whatever it is that you want to call it.When they were young, I was very excited...
Kids Craft: How to make a pop-up book
One of the ways to encourage children to learn is to make things interesting and exciting for them. You can teach them to make a simple pop-up book to learn their alphabets and spelling by having them...
