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Craft Ideas for the School Holidays
Here's another craft which we did some time ago. It is a picture made of paper crepe. You can try it during the school holidays.The girl learned it at school and wanted to replicate it at home. So she taught us how to make this paper crepe craft.This...
More Origami Fun with Rainbow Origami Paper
Recently we bought some Rainbow Origami paper from a stationary shop. The origami papers are double sided ie both sides have different colours.We also bought some shiny and glossy Origami papers but they cheated on that one. The packet had shiny pape...
Make Origami Stars Craze
At the moment, we're into the Make Origami Stars Craze in our house. It all started because my girl wanted to buy some origami stars at her school fun fair but she was disappointed because someone took the last batch.So, mummy said, don't worry, we'l...
Paper Aeroplanes
My kids love to play paper aeroplanes. All you need is some paper. You can use coloured paper and stickers for decoration if the fancy strikes you but really, all you need is some rough paper.My kids prefer the coloured paper with the stickers, natu...
His and Hers: Drawing and Coloring
I can see that my 5 year old boy's drawing and coloring is improving. They do look rather (not surprisingly) like his 7 year old sister's. Both of them do not attend any art class. They draw from their imagination through exposure to stories and book...
How to make an origami box
After I told the kids that I was going to let them pick out goodies from a box like in a lucky dip when they have accumulated enough tokens or stickers from their challenges using the reward chart, the girl started to pester me to make a box.So, we w...
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 her during the school holidays. I didn't take step...
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."Having breakfast with the kids is an adventure tri...
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. The first is a pop-up origami tree card. The second...
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 bring out their creativity when they were younger. Ho...
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 stickers. We used manila cards pink, green, yellow ...
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 aeroplanes and cars glitter.Then we recycled an old ...
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 decided to make flowers and cards for the teachers. It...
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 bugging me to). Its hard to find the time with her...
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 to school because of these party packs."Look baby, ...
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 one of these freehand drawing sessions recently, thi...
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. It comes in a can/box and includes a 48 page activi...
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 instruction book on how to create balloon sculptur...
