MY HANDICRAFTS

MY DAUGHTER'S DRAWING

2012-01-27T13:57:00.000-08:00

My daughter 5 yr old tried out Jamini roy's work for Shruthi Aunty's Challenge.

GANESHA - INSPIRED FROM M.F.HUSSAIN

2012-01-27T04:54:00.000-08:00

I love to draw many ganesha pictures .

I tried this from the above painting of Mr.M.F. Hussain .

Linking it with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy Challenge Jan 2012 .

INSPIRATION FROM RAGUNATH VENKATRAMAN

2012-01-26T05:52:00.000-08:00

This is an oil painting of the famous folk dance of TamilNadu by a wonderful artist Mr.RAGUNATH VENKATRAMAN .

Inspired by this wonderful painting , I created this painting on OHP sheet with glass painting colours .This puppet was made for shruthi's folk art challenge . Click here for my puppets .

Linking it up for Shruthi's Artsy craftsty Jan 2012 challenge .

PAINTED RANGOLI

2012-01-11T10:05:00.001-08:00

PAINTED RANGOLI

2012-01-05T04:58:00.000-08:00

INSPIRATION FROM JAMINI ROY

2012-01-04T05:48:00.000-08:00

Inspired by this painting of Jamini Roy . A Simple sketch with oil pastels . Linking it up withShruthi's Artsy Craftsy Challenge Jan 2012 .

SNOW MAN - MY FROSTY FRIEND

2011-12-09T06:00:00.001-08:00

Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy Challenge .

THINGS REQUIRED :

Coloured threads

Satin ribbon

Thermocol balls

Cotton thiris/ threads for litting lamps

STEPS TO FOLLOW :

1) Draw snow man picture.

2) Glue the threads and decorate the frosty friend .

GINGER BREAD MAN - CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT

2011-12-08T05:54:00.000-08:00

THINGS REQUIRED :

Brown paper / Craft paper

Scissors

Kids colour bindhi's

Buttons

Satin ribbons

Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED:

1) Fold paper in concertina style as shown .

2) Draw gingerbread man on one side .

3) Cut out the figure draw . Open the paper , you will get shape as shown.

4) Then colour the man .

5) Glue a satin ribbon and hang it in your tree .

PAPER CHRISTMAS TREE

2011-12-07T06:38:00.000-08:00

THINGS REQUIRED :

Velvet Craft paper

Star stickers

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw tree in the paper and cut it out.

2) Stick star stickers in it.

DIY CHRISTMAS CARD IDEAS

2011-12-02T08:11:00.000-08:00

EAR RINGS HOLDER

2011-11-29T01:16:00.000-08:00

THINGS REQUIRED :

Aluminium foil holder

Aluminium foil/Coloured paper

Ear rings

Buttons

Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Glue aluminium foil to its holder .

2) Glue buttons to it .

3) When it all gets dried up . Prick holes in the holder through button holes and hang your ear rings .

Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy Challenge nov'11 .

SATIN RIBBON FLOWERS - DIY DECORATIVE IDEA

2011-11-28T09:21:00.000-08:00

These can be used to decorate gift bags , Shirts , Friendship/Rakhi bands and Hair clips as shown .

THINGS REQUIRED :

Satin ribbons

Buttons

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Cut ribbons of same sizes .

2) Glue it ends and make circles.

3) Glue it in the centre .

4) Make flower as shown with button in the centre.

Linking it up with Shruthi's Challenge .

BUTTON STAMPED BUTTERFLY

2011-11-28T01:00:00.000-08:00

This is for Shruthi Aunty's Challenge from my daughter .

THINGS REQUIRED :

Colour pens

Colour paints

Buttons

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw butterfly .

2) Help your kids to dip buttons in colour and stamp it in butterfly .

FRIENDSHIP BAND /KIDS FRIENDLY BAND

2011-11-27T02:14:00.000-08:00

THINGS REQUIRED :

Satin ribbons

Flower buttons / Fancy buttonsue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Cut ribbons of desired sizes.

2) Decorate with fancy buttons .

Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy -Craftsy November 2011 - Button Crafts .

MAGICAL HAND - BUTTERFLIES

2011-11-01T02:10:00.000-07:00

What can convince you equal to the happiness in your kids ? ........The answer to be sure is 'Nothing ' . My little cutie enjoys colours.........so happy and excited in painting.......here comes an outcome of her happiness and fun with colours . What a lovely colourful butterflies !!!!!!!!!!!! . Isn't it ? ....
Let me help to grow her creative thoughts and join in her happiness .

INVITATION CARD - DIY

2011-10-22T01:52:00.000-07:00

This card was made to invite our close friends for a pooja in our house . Linking it up with Shruthi's Challenge .

POP UP BIRTHDAY CARD - DIY

2011-10-21T06:25:00.000-07:00

Home made greetings card for our loved ones will be always special and treasurable . This was given to my daughter for her birthday .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Chart paper

White paper

Glue

Satin ribbon

Barbie stickers

Birthday party pictures

Colourful heart stickers

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Take a white paper . Fold it into 2 halves .

2) Cut as shown in the picture for making pop ups .

3) Leave the centre cut portion and fold the end portions inside . You will get a pop up inside .

Make similar pop ups .

4) Glue bday pictures to the pop ups . Glue the pop ups paper to the chart paper .

5) Decorate the front page of the card .

6) Pop up is ready .Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy Challenge .

SANTA CLAUS COSTUME

2011-10-19T07:05:00.000-07:00

DIY CARD IDEAS FROM MY DAUGTHER'S CRAFTS TREASURE

2011-10-12T02:03:00.000-07:00

Here are few of DIY Cards made by my daughter . Linking these to Shruti's Artsy Craftsy Challenge - Cards .

FOR MOM AND DAD :

BIRTHDAY CARD :

CHRISTMAS CARDS :

BOUQUET OF HANDPRINTS FLOWERS

2011-10-09T23:46:00.000-07:00

We wished to give a different gift for our daughter's birthday and decided to give a handmade one . This a bouquet made for her with her handprints .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Chart Paper - 1

Green colour paper - 2

Straws - few

Ribbon .

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Handprints of my daughter .

2 ) Leaf cut out from colour paper .

3) Fold each hand to the end of the straw with leaf and staple it .[

4 ) Make similar flowers and finally tie them together to make a bouquet . Isn't it a special gift for my duaghter ?...........

Hope your kids too will enjoy it .

FAIRY DRESS COSTUME

2011-10-08T21:26:00.000-07:00

This is a simple fancy dress costume with DIY idea .

THINGS REQUIRED :

DIY Fairy set

Fancy stone studded crown

Flower studded hair wreath

Pink dress

Click here to know how to decorate DIY Fairy set .

MAGICAL HAND - TREE

2011-09-27T04:38:00.000-07:00

MY DAUGHTER'S GIFT : A SIMPLE BIRTHDAY CARD FOR HER FATHER'S BIRTHDAY .

2011-09-07T00:40:00.000-07:00

This card was made for my hubby's birthday by my daughter , with kids handprints using turmeric paste .

THINGS REQUIRED :

Chart Paper

Turmeric powder paste

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

Fold chart paper as you per your preferred designs . We folded it in concertina style.Decorate it .

ELEPHANT COLLAGE

2011-09-06T00:46:00.000-07:00

We did this craft for my daughter as a part of her Craft work in school.

THINGS REQUIRED :

Paper plate - 1

Siver colour papers - 5

Black crepe papers - 5

Chart paper - 1

Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Take the plate and cover it with a silver colour paper .Allow it to dry .

2) Draw big ears and trunk in the silver paper and cut it out .

3) Then , glue it to the chart paper .

4) Draw an elephant in the chart paper and help your kids to glue its parts with it.

5) Make eyes using white chart paper .

HAPPY VINAYAKAR CHATHURTHI !!! FREE HAND PAINTING OF VINAYAKAR

2011-09-01T05:21:00.000-07:00

I painted this using Turmeric and Kumkum .

FREE HAND DRAWING -- JUST LIKE THAT

2011-08-11T06:16:00.000-07:00

MULTIPURPOSE HOLDER

2011-08-01T23:37:00.000-07:00

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Bangles
Glue
Thick Card board

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Collect bangles of same sizes .

2) Apply glue to the bangle as shown .

3) Stick the first bangle to a thick sheet . Then , stack all the bangles as shown .

4) Allow it to dry for few hours .

5) Use it as holder for pens/pencils/knifes/mobile phones/flower vase etc .

MAGICAL PAINTING FOR KIDS

2011-07-24T03:30:00.000-07:00

We had colourful cheerful weekend . My daughter enjoyed a lot doing this . A fun filled painting with Wax crayons and Water colours.

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Wax crayons

Paper

Water colours

Sponge

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

with white crayon:

1) Draw pictures using white wax crayon ( any colour) .

2) Then paint over them with sponge .

3) Colours will not stand over wax . Pictures will be seen clearly . Kids will enjoy this definetly.

Linking it with Shruthi's Artsy-Craftsy Challenge July 2011 - Colour Mix.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - GRANDMA'S FAMOUS STORY-HUNGRY CROW

2011-07-20T05:23:00.000-07:00

Wow !!! Such a cute sight of crow munching a medhu vadai . None will be there without knowing the grandma's story , Hungry Crow and Vada . We enjoyed the sight of a crow slowly flew down , watched out for humans , came to the vada in the track and then started munching it . Isn't a lovely sight with my 4 yr old daughter? . Caught this sight in Coimbatore Junction through the window of the passenger train to Shoranur .

SAND PAINTING / COLOURING AND SALT PAINTING

2011-07-16T05:50:00.001-07:00

These were done for my daughter's school crafts in nursery.

SAND PAINTED MELON :

Mix different colours with sand in different dry bowls.

Draw designs in paper .

Apply gum to the design and spread colours to it.

Dry for 2 hours and just remove the dust with a soft brush.

SALT PAINTED RANGOLI :

Mix different colours with salt in different dry bowls.

Draw rangoli designs in paper .

Apply gum to the design and spread colours to it.

Dry for 2 hours and just remove the dust with a soft brush.

Linking it with shruthi Artsy Craftsy Challenge July 2011.

MY FIRST AWARD AND A GIVE AWAY

2011-07-05T18:54:00.000-07:00

This is my first lovely award for my crafts blog . Thank you arul for sharing this with me .

A lovely craft lover , Shruthi celebrates her 2nd blog anniversary with a give away . For more details check here .

BALLOON PRINTING

2011-06-29T00:38:00.000-07:00

It is yet another simple and funniest painting technique for kids .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Balloons
Colours
Paper / Cardboard / Cloth

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Blow balloons and tie with a thread .

2) Dip it in colours .

3) Block it 2 times in bottom / top portion of the paper one in each corner.

4) Fold the paper in the centre/fold it 2 halves . Press it gently and open the paper .

5) Wow,what a lovely one !!! Cute painting , isn't it?

Linking it with Show and Tell #61 , Made by little hands , monday , For kids friday #16 and Play Academy .

SIMPLE KALAMKARI DESIGNS

2011-06-28T10:53:00.000-07:00

Kalamkari is an art of hand painting in Fabrics . Famous art of Andra Pradesh .
Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art

KOLAM

2011-06-28T10:52:00.001-07:00

FOLKSY FACES FROM MY DAUGHTER

2011-06-27T03:20:00.000-07:00

Some folksy faces from my daughter .I helped her to draw eyes and nose.

Traced out my daughter's hand and then drew the face.

Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

SAURA PAINTING

2011-06-26T08:27:00.001-07:00

Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

TAMILNADU FOLKS - WARLI PAINTING

2011-06-24T05:02:00.000-07:00

Warli Painting showing Tamilnadu folks : 1) Kavadi attam 2) Karakattam 3) Jallikattu (Bull fight) 4) Silambattam and 5) Cock fight .

Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

LORD KRISHNA PAINTING

2011-06-23T06:19:00.001-07:00

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

OHP sheet
Glass painting colours
Glue
Glitter powder
Marker

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw krishna in a paper.
2) Trace it to the OHP.
3) Colour it .

Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

EGG SHELL ART - TRIBAL FACE

2011-06-22T03:14:00.000-07:00

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Egg shell - 1
Colours

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1 )Clean the shell and allow it to dry .
2) Colour and dry it.
3) Draw face with pencil.

4) Mark it with marker and again colour it.

Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

PUPPETS - MAYILATTAM / POI KAL KUTHIRAI(MADHUBANI STYLE)

2011-06-20T00:10:00.000-07:00

Mayilattam (Peacock dance ) and Poikal kuthirai(False leg horse dance ) are very famous folk dances in TamilNadu . These are now a days performed in village festivals or in government functions representing TamilNadu . Linking this to Shruti's Folk Art Challenge .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

OHP Sheets
Glass painting colours
Pencil
Erasers
Popsicles
Glue
Thread
OHP Markers

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Pencil Sketch the figures in plain paper .

2) Trace the figures to OHP using markers .
3) Colour it using glass painting colours and allow it to dry.

4) Glue the OHP sheet to a plain paper . Cut out the pictures .
5) Glue popsicles to the painitng one in the top and other in the bottom
6) Tie a thick thread to both the top sticks of both the paintings.
7) Hold the middle of the thread to show puppets dancing to your kids.

COMB PAINTING

2011-06-17T01:05:00.000-07:00

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Mix colours of your choice .
2) Dip a old comb in it .
3) Hold the comb over a plain paper . Block and brush it . Colourful banner is ready .

Meet you again with the banner .

Linking it with Play Academy and Fun on fridays# 15.

JUST LIKE THAT ------ PAINTING

2011-06-16T02:43:00.001-07:00

Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

MY FIRST EMBOSS PAINTING - VINAYAKAR

2011-06-07T22:57:00.000-07:00

This was my first painting done in April 2005 .

100 th POST SOMETHING SPECIAL !!!!!

2011-05-18T23:53:00.000-07:00

This is a special moment for me .This is my 100 th post . Waiting about a week to celebrate this happiness . Am happy to post a special craft to make a very special gift for my daughter . This ganesha was painted by my lil one in her school for ganesh chathurthi . Being an ardent follower and lover of Lord Vinayakar , would like to add this to my collection of his idols . We made a frame to it .Hope , she will definetly treasure it for years .You can try this to treasure kids lovely paintings.

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Square cardboard
Gift wrappers
Satin ribbons
Decoration items
Glue
Ganesh painting .

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Take the card board . Wrap it up with gift paper.
2) Glue the painting paper in the centre.

3) Fold the satin ribbon as shown in the picture to form zigzag texture.

4) Glue to the corners of the board .
5) Decorate the frame with decorations items .

6) Give to the shop and get this framed.Have given this to get it framed in shop.Will post the photo soon .

HOLI CRAFTS EVENT ROUNDUP !!!!!

2011-05-18T07:37:00.000-07:00

Happy to see cute crafts from lil ones . Here are them :

From my lil one :

Esther ' s colourful crafts :

Rainbow pumpkin
Double Rainbow painting
Rainbow bottles
Rainbow pencils

Harsha's :

Beautiful holi idea

Putti amma's

Cute HOLI banners crafts

Shreya's :

Cute drawing

HOLI

2011-05-02T22:52:00.001-07:00

Holi is a festival celebrated to welcome the ' SPRING SEASON ' in India. Nowadays in all the preschools , they celebrate all the festivals . This help the kids to know about the festivals .

Here is the way , i used to teach my lil one with holi pictures from magazines .

Linking this with Holi Craft Event .

and also with
Show and tell # 55
Fun for kids friday #8
Play Academy # 37

ANIMALS BAGS AND BOXES - REUSE

2011-04-28T07:23:00.000-07:00

We will be shifting to our new flat by the end of May . So , we are in the 1st phase of cleaning the house . This includes packing up my daughter's and my craft items . While cleaning up my lil one's selves . We got sight of these paper masks which we purchased last year for her school's Earth and Nature's Day celebration . Maintaining these masks , as such will be difficult with her .

We are in need of containers for her crayons , chart paper etc . To get her interest in leaving everything packed after playing , we made these boxes and bags .

THINGS NEEDED :

Animal masks
Waste boxes and Paper bags.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

Glue these masks to the boxes and bags . Use these bags and boxes to keep crayons,colour papers,chart paper , stencils , pens etc .

Shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.

Linking it with

Show and tell # 55
Fun for kids friday #8
Play Academy # 37

EGG SHELL EARTH / MOSAIC ART

2011-04-28T02:26:00.000-07:00

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Egg shells - 4
Colours
Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED:

1) Crush the egg shell and keep aside.
2) Draw a circle in a plain sheet.
3) Apply glue to it . Then , stick the egg shells to it.
4) Allow it to dry for few hours.
5) Then , paint it.

Linking it with

Show and tell # 55
Fun for kids friday #8
Play Academy # 37

and Shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.

COLOURING FUN WITH SHAPES

2011-04-26T08:05:00.000-07:00

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Chart paper / Waste card paper
Watercolour
Waste comb and toothbrush

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw shape in the chart paper .

2) Cut the shapes out of it using penknife. It will look like stencil .

3) Place the shape stencil in a plain page .
4) Take comb and dip the brush in watercolour. Hold the comb tightly and brush the colour in the comb as shown.

5) Once done,remove the stencil . Shapes are coloured easily .

6) Then , mark the shapes with colour pens.

Linking it with

1) Made by little hands-Monday
2) Fun for kids Friday 8
3) Show and tell # 55

EARTH DAY --- THINGS TO BE DONE

2011-04-25T08:54:00.001-07:00

This is the simple way of teaching our kids to know the importance of Earth day . This is my way of teaching my daugther .

Collect pictures relating to Earth Day from magazines and stick it to a note book . Teach them about it .

Page 1 :

Picture 1: Earth picture showing trees , animals , birds , water and humans.
Picture 2 : Plant trees
Picture 3 : Water the trees/plants
Picture 4: Grow plants in your home.

Page 2 :

Picture 1 : Say NO to plastic.
Picture 2: Make a habit of gifting Plants .
Picture 3 : Make house for birds in your home.

Page 3 :

Picture 1 : Fees birds
Picture 2 : Don't cut down trees.
Picture 3: Don't waste water.
Picture 4: Save water.

Page 4:

Picture 1: Grow your own garden.
Picture 2 : Know and use natural colours.
Picture 3 : Save plants
Picture 4: Reduce air pollution by the use of cycles.

Page 5:

Picture : Save and help animals.

Sending this to shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.

Linking it to Fun for kids Friday 8

LADIES FINGER FLOWERS - SUMMER VACATION FUN

2011-04-22T06:33:00.000-07:00

A Simple drawing using ladies finger cap . My daughter loves to eat ladies finger and very much loved to colour with her favourite veggie.

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Poster colours
Crayons
Ladies finger caps

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED:

1) Pencil sketch vase with branches.
2) Touch colours with veggie cap and print them in place for flowers.

3) Join flowers with green sketch pen.

4) Mark leaves with your little finger prints.

5) Colour your vase with crayons.
Linking it to Fun for kids Friday 8

NATURE CHART

2011-04-19T05:41:00.000-07:00

Nature Chart was done for my daughter for her Earth day Celebration in school .

Here the chart shows TREE , DESERT , BUTTERFLY , ICEBERG , GRASSLAND , SUNSET , RIVER , SNOW MOUNTAIN , GARDEN , MOUNTAIN , FLOWERS , RAINBOW , FRUITS AND VEGETABLES .

Sending this to shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.

Linking with

For kids friday - 7

BANGLE CRAFTS - SUMMER VACATION FUN

2011-04-18T06:01:00.000-07:00

This was done to make my daughter do something interesting , instead of spending her time watching Cartoon shows . She was more excited in doing this , using her waste bangles .

We did Caterpillar , Cat , Sun , Lady bird and Honey bee .

Sending this to shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.

Linking this to

Show and Tell :

Play academy :

PP1 PROJECT WORK - OPPOSITES

2011-04-12T03:41:00.000-07:00

This project work was done for my daughter's project work on Opposites .

She was more happy and excited on doing this work . This will be one of the best way of teaching kids . She was very happy as her teacher awarded her with Excellent grade . We did this using pictures from new papers and magazines .

Here goes the opposites ,

1) AWAKE - ASLEEP

2) TALL - SHORT & FAT - THIN & BIG - SMALL .

3) SIT-STAND ; HAPPY - SAD ; LAUGH - CRY ; BLACK - WHITE .

4) CLEAN - DIRTY .

5) YOUNG - OLD ; OPEN - CLOSE.

6) WOMAN - MAN ; OVER - UNDER .

7) COLD - HOT ; GIRL - BOY ; FAST - SLOW .

8) ABOVE - BELOW

9) SAME - DIFFERENT .

10) UP - DOWN

11) IN - OUT ; FAR - NEAR .

12 ) MORE - LESS

Linking this to

Show and Tell :

Play academy :

PAPER BOX

2011-04-08T03:33:00.000-07:00

Sending this to shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.

MATERIALS NEEDED :

Old newspapers
Glue
Waste invitation cards/Chart paper

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Tear a page in two halves . Fold it and tear it again to get rectangle or square shape.
2) Roll it as shown and glue it in the end.

3) Make a rectangle shape out of waste cards , to form the base for the box.
4) Make rolls of paper as per requirement and glue to the card to form the box.Glue one roll over the other.
5) Box is ready to store clips/safety pins/Visiting cards .

HOLI CRAFT

2011-04-05T04:34:00.000-07:00

This was done by my daughter in her school for Holi .

Attaching this for Holi crafts event in my blog.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - SILVERFALLS

2011-03-29T23:12:00.000-07:00

One more from my cousin's album .

HOLI CRAFTS EVENT

2011-03-20T06:02:00.001-07:00

Hope everyone must have well celebrated colourful holi . Let us celebrate Holi this whole month with this event . Hope everyone will enjoy this event .

Photo courtesy : Google

Rules :

1) Make any type of craft like drawing , sketching , painting etc related to holi .
2) Post it in your blog with this logo and link it back to this event .
3) You are welcome with your archieved entries and your own holi celebrated photos.
4) Send your crafts to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com before 15,April .

Wait for your crafts for this colourful festival .

Cheers
Shama Nags

FAMILY TREE CRAFT 2

2011-03-15T06:25:00.000-07:00

This is coloured by my lil one .

Sending this Family Tree to Shruthi's Artsy - Craftsy Challenge March 2011 .

OUR SECOND GIFT .... BABY BOY

2011-03-13T23:08:00.000-07:00

We are blessed with a cute little prince on March 10 . My 4 yr little princess is more happy and excited with the arrival of the little prince . Hope to catch up you friends as early as possible .

Take care

Cheers,
Shama Nags

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY -- BELL FLOWER

2011-03-08T05:56:00.000-08:00

One more lovely click from my cousin.

PAPER DUCK MASK

2011-03-08T03:29:00.000-08:00

This is my daughter's work , on seeing the following mask .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Paper Plate - 1
Black and Pink colour paper glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Cut a small circle shape from pink paper . Fold it in the center . Glue the bottom part to the plate . Leave the top part open to form the mouth.

2) Make eyes out of black paper . Then glue white themocol ball to it .

3) Make hairs with black paper.

4) Put holes to tie the strings . Mask is ready .

FAMILY TREE CRAFT 1

2011-03-06T20:10:00.000-08:00

MATERIALS NEEDED :

Green and Brown colour Velvet Paper .
Family members photographs .

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1 ) Make tree out of velvet paper .
2) Glue the photographs of paternal and maternal family members for your kid.

Sending this Family Tree to Shruthi's Artsy - Craftsy Challenge March 2011 .

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

2011-03-01T20:50:00.001-08:00

This photo was taken by my cousin , Kumar . He loves photography .

MY DAUGHTER'S NATURE CRAFT

2011-02-26T08:40:00.000-08:00

This was done by my daughter who enjoys colouring and craft work . Last week , she was taught about nature . So , we planned to do this craft.Sending this to Shruti's Artsy - Craftsy Challenge - Tissue Paper

We drew a tree , mountain , waterfall , river, hut , sun , birds and a rainbow . She painted the mountain with watercolour . River and Waterfall with crepe paper .

Rainbow with crepepapers .

Tree collage with crepe paper . We glued white crepe paper for Trunk and then watercoloured it .

Sun with waste tin cap and crepe paper .

Hut with crepe paper and stripped tissue paper roof ,water coloured brown .

She enjoyed doing this . Hope your kids also enjoy doing this . Have a great week end .

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - WHITE TIGER

2011-02-23T01:17:00.000-08:00

MY DAUGHTER'S PINGU

2011-02-19T04:32:00.000-08:00

This egg shell penguin won me third prize in Art from Waste Competition held in my daughter's school . I made only the penguin in school . With that , my lil one and myself made this house for our little pingu . Hope you all will enjoy this craft.

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Egg shells - 2
Black paper from magazines .
Tissue paper - 1
Glue
Poster paints
Cotton
Thermocol
Paper Plate

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Clean the egg shell and dry it for some time.
2) Draw the shape of penguin with pencil in the shell .
3) Paint the shell in black(back side) and white (front side) . Allow it to dry.

4) Then , stick oval stickers for eyes , beak with black paper and draw mouth .
5) Take a piece of tissue paper and cut hairy for its hair .
6) Draw the shape of feather and feet in black paper . Cut to its shape and then glue to the shell. Pingu is ready .

7 ) Take a thermocol sheet . Glue some cotton sheets to it , to display like snow . Make Pingu to stand in it .

8) Take a paper plate fold it it the center ,glue it . Draw the entrance and glue the tissue paper as shown . Igloo is ready .

Enjoy this craft and have fun .Sending this to February Carnival Let's go the DIY way .

MY DAUGHTER'S NURSERY CRAFTS

2011-02-18T08:46:00.000-08:00

This board was prepared with all the craft work by my lil one in her nursery .

This board has a Christmas Bells , Sand Arts , Frog , Hand print , Black bug , Honey bee , Igloo , Christmas tree and helicopter .

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - STONE HENGE , BIRMINGHAM

2011-02-16T08:21:00.001-08:00

This photo was taken when we in were in UK (last year ) . This photo was selected for wordless wednesday by my hubby , who loves photography . This was taken by him , one of his favourite photograph.

TISSUE PAPER RANGOLI ON WALLS

2011-02-14T08:20:00.000-08:00

When Shruti announced Artsy - Craftsy Challenge - Tissue Paper, this was the first craft that came in mind . This is a bit time consuming one and need a lot of patience .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Tissue paper - 1
Colour gift wrapper and Chart paper.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Fold the tissue paper in the centre to form a rectangle and then fold it again in the centre to form a square .

2) Cut your preferred shapes on the folded sides of the square leaving a space between each and every shape using the scissors .

3) Then fold the square to form a triangle and repeat step 2 .

4) Then , carefully open the folds , you would have developed a lovely design .

5) Glue the tissue paper to a coloured paper and stick them to a chart paper to have a thick background .

6) You can either frame it or glue to your walls during parties or form a background for god idols while making thorams/decorations for ganesh pooja,krishna jeyanthi , Varalakshmi viratham etc .

Note : If you cannot follow these steps , please let me know . I will post photos for each and every step . This time , i forget to click the pictures .

SMILEY DOLL KEY CHAIN

2011-02-11T18:39:00.001-08:00

My daughter loves to have smiley balls or key chain.Yesterday, i gave her a smiley key chain . She wished to have a smiley doll . So , we finally tried our best to make it appealing .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

1) Crepe papers and Tissue Paper .
2) Glue
3) Smiley key chain.
4) Paper cup.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Glue crepe papers of your choice colours to the cup to make a dress for smiley .

2) Take a waste thick paper . Trace out the bottom circle shape of the cup in it . Then , draw a oval shape around the circle .Cut the circle out first from the oval shape and then oval shape from the paper.

3) Just fit the shape as shown . Folding the extended portion in the centre to form hands .Then , glue crepe papers to it.

4) Glue the smiley to the cup . Take a white tissue paper , cut it into half and fold it to form a small rectangle shape . Make a hole in the centre for the chain and stick it to the head . follow the same step to stick hair in the back of the head .Once it gets dried , cut the tissue paper to for hair for the smiley .

5) Stick a small satin ribbon on both sides for the smiley . Doll is ready .Sending this to Shruthi's Artsy-Craftsy challenge Feb 2011 .

MEHENDI FOR MY LIL ONE

2011-02-10T05:42:00.000-08:00

COLLAGE - TREE

2011-02-09T06:26:00.000-08:00

This tree was done as a part of my daughter's school project , Nature Project .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Thermocol sheet - 1 small size
Leaves pictures from old magazines.
Brown colour papers from old magazines .
Glue.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw the shape of a tree in the thermocol sheet . Cut it out with a thermocol cutter.
2) Then cut the leaves pictures from the magazines to the shapes that fit your tree shape and glue to it.
3) Then , cut the brown colour papers from the magazines to your trunk shape and glue to it .

Tree is ready . Your kids will enjoy this .

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - DUDH SAGAR WATERFALL FROM THE MOVING TRAIN .

2011-02-09T03:19:00.000-08:00

CHRISTMAS TREE

2011-02-08T03:23:00.000-08:00

Finally , i managed to get these pictures from my memory card though my camera is still not working . My lil one and myself made this Simple and Quick Christmas tree for Christmas 2010 .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

1) Kids Party Caps .
2) Green Colour Crepe paper .
3) Kids plastic flower earings and some decorative kundan pieces.
4) A Star sticker.
5) Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1 ) I chose the green cap .

2) Glue the crepe paper over the cap in this way . This way shows alternate shades of green .

3) Then , decorate the tree with the kids plastic flower studs and decorative pieces . With a golden star in the top .

4) Christmas tree is ready.Sending this to Shruthi's Artsy-Craftsy challenge Feb 2011 .

KITE - SANKRANTHI CRAFT

2011-02-07T06:31:00.001-08:00

This is the kite made for my daughter for Sankranthi .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Thermocol sheet - 1
Gift Wrapper - 1
Aluminium Paper - 1 sheet
Thermocol balls - 1 packet
Cartoon Pictures of ur kids choice
Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Cut the thermocol sheet in square shape .

2) Cut any coloured gift wrapper of the same shape and glue to it.

3) Attach the colour strips for the tail of the kite .

4) Decorate the kite as you wish . I used thermocol balls and cartoon pictures .

Kite is ready .

FANCY DRESS COSTUME - TREE FOR KIDS

2011-02-01T01:35:00.000-08:00

This craft goes to Artsy-Craftsy Challenge , Jan 2011 by Shruthi .

This was designed for my daughter . Materials Required :

1) Card board sheets .
2) Plastic leaves and flowers .
3) Glue
4) Green and Brown Velvet Paper .

Steps to be followed :

1) Draw the shape of trunk and leaves .
2) Cut to their shape and glue corresponding colour papers to their parts .
3) Then , glue flowers and leaves .
4) Make holes to tie strings for dressing up the kid.

Christmas Craft Event Roundup

2011-01-11T03:36:00.000-08:00

Hai Friends ,

Here comes the Christmas Crafts Event roundup . Thank you friends for your cute wonderful crafts .

Esther's :

Christmas Bow :
Tree Skirt :
Christmas Tree
Frosty Snow Pumpkin
Tiny Nativity Scene

Laugh's Light bulb Reindeer :

Harsha's Cute Reindeer :

CHRISTMAS CRAFTS EVENT 2010

2010-12-14T20:25:00.000-08:00

Hai !!!!!!!!

I am back here again with this festive event ' CHRISTMAS CRAFTS EVENT 2010 ' .
I invite you all to this creative event and make a memorable event .

RULES :

1) Create any christmas craft/ornaments or crafts related to christmas . Post it in your blog with the link back to this event .

2) Please feel free to use the logo .

3) Archieved entries and multiple entries are allowed.

4) Send ur entries to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com . Last date : 31,December 2010.

Enjoy and have fun !!!!!!!

RE- ENTRY FOR ARTSY- CRAFSTY CHALLENGE

2010-12-14T02:08:00.000-08:00

This Tomato Cat goes to Artsy - Craftsy Challenge December 2010 .

Arrange tomatoes to form the tummy and face for the cat . Use pepper for eyes and red chillies horn . Green chilly for nose and coconut shell fibres for whiskers . Tomato cat is ready

SPARROW CRAFT EVENT ROUNDUP!!!!!!

2010-08-09T00:42:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends ,

Finally came with the roundup of Sparrow Craft Event . Thank you for all the participants for their wonderful crafts .

Here comes their cute works ,

Vidhya's Wonderful Work .

Aruljothi's cute embroidery .

Harsha's wonderful works :

Chinmayee's Beautiful Sparrow .

Nithya's Cute drawing .

and

My Paper Sparrow

PAPER SPARROW

2010-07-29T22:41:00.000-07:00

This craft is for my Sparrow craft event .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Chart paper - 1
Colour pens
Glue
Scissors

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Take a small portion of chart paper .

2) Fold it in the centre .

3) Draw a semi circle near the folded portion . This for the body of sparrow .

4) Cut it out and glue the open sides . Similarly , draw head , feathers , legs , beak and wing in the chart paper and cut it out .

5 ) Finally , glue the parts to the body and then colour it . Sparrow is ready to play with .

BINOCULAR

2010-07-28T23:56:00.000-07:00

This is done as a part of my daughter's My Circle Project .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Chart paper - 1
Glue
Colour pens

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw 2 trapezium in the chart paper and cut it out .

2) Roll it out and glue them .

3) This will help to see two circles , small and big as seen in this picture.

4) Then make a small hole near the small circle and tie both the rolls with a thick thread .Finally decorate it with colour pens . Binocular is ready to play with.

CIRCLE CRAFT

2010-07-27T06:36:00.000-07:00

This is done for my daughters My Circle Craft project . This will help her to study various sizes of circles and sphere .

MATERIALS NEEDED :

Thermocol sheet - 1
Waste bangles of various sizes
Balls of various sizes
Coins - 1 rp , 50 ps , 25 ps
Buttons
Waste CD and waste bottle caps

BANGLES FLOWER

2010-07-21T00:05:00.001-07:00

I did this as a part of my daugther's My Circle Crafts Project in her school .This took only 10 minutes ...this was done in a hurry before my daughter's van arrival.

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Waste bangles - 7
Crayons
Chart paper
Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw a picture of flower and glue the bangles . Colour the petals .
2) You can even frame it .

This goes to Treasure from Trash hosted by Mindful menderings

A BIG SORRY AND REPOSTS FOR TRASH EVENT

2010-07-04T03:59:00.000-07:00

Dear friends ,

Sorry , due to some technical issues i couldn't make any post for a long time in my crafts blog . I couldn't make the roundup for my sparrow crafts event . So , i decided to host the same event for this month also . Please do participate and make the event a successful one . Thank you friends for visiting my blog even in my absence .

Cheers
Shama

Event :

March 20 is celebrated as World Sparrow day . An enjoyable event to celebrate this day .

RULES :

1) Do crafts related to sparrow like pencil sketching , painting , paper crafts , toys , embroidery , poem etc......

2) Post it in your blog with a link back to the event .

3) Send your crafts to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com before July 31 , 2010 .Please send the following details :

a) Name
b) Craft Name
c) Link
d) Photo
e) Type of craft

4) Please use the logo . Entries from older posts and multiple entries are allowed .

Enjoy and have more fun .

Some reposts for Treasure from Trash hosted by Mindful menderings .

1) A Simple gift box .
2) A Show Piece .
3) Flowers from Peanut shell .
4) Flowers from Pencil shavings
5) Paper Clock
6) Paper Ship

7) Paper Doll 8) CD Wall hanging :

FORGOTTEN INDIAN GAMES--PALANGGULI

2010-04-13T01:01:00.000-07:00

Picture courtesy : Google

Palangguli is one of the famous games played by womens in Tamilnadu . Hope , each and every house will have this board . I have it in silver , gifted by my mom during my marriage .It is in my in-laws place ,so I cannot take a photo of my own .

Rules of the game :

1) It is a two player game . Each one will take 7 cups each .
2)Each cup will have 6 seeds . Usually , we will play with tamarind seeds .
3) Firstplayer have to lift the seeds from any of her cups and distribute the seeds one by one in each cup, starting from the cup rightside to the cup from she took the seeds.
4) Once the six seeds over , she takes seeds from the next cup immediately after that cup and repeat step 3 . If she reaches the end of her cups, she need to drop seeds in her opponent player's cups.

5) She has to drop the seeds until the last seed fell into a cup with an empty cup beyond. Once it had occured , she can take the seeds in the cup beyond the empty cup and store it for her.

6) Then the second player starts to play in the same way .

7) If for any one of the players , when the last seed fell into a cup with two empty cups beyond, they never takes seeds and their turn is over.

8) The first round is over when there are no seeds .

9) Players have to fill their cups with the seeds they earned .Player with more seeds is declared the winner. The loser of the first round will be unable to fill all of his holes.

10) In the next round play continues as before without considering the empty holes .

11) The game is over when a player doesn't fill any of his cups with 6 seeds .

Sending this to Nivedita's Forgotten indian games .

FORGOTTEN INDIAN GAMES

2010-04-12T10:12:00.000-07:00

CHOTANGKALLU (GAME WITH STONES)

This is one of the games played mostly in south indian villages .

This game is played with 6 stones . All you have to do is to

1) Throw one stone first , tap the ground and catch it with the same hand .

2) Hold it it hand , repeat step 1 again . Catch the second stone with the right hand holding the first catched one.

3) Repeat the above steps for all the 6 stones .

4) Person catching all the 6 stones without a sinlge drop is the winner.

Sending this to Nivedita's Forgotten indian games .

LORD GANESH

2010-03-22T11:00:00.000-07:00

SPARROW CRAFTS EVENT'10

2010-03-17T10:39:00.000-07:00

March 20 is celebrated as World Sparrow day . An enjoyable event to celebrate this day .

RULES :

1) Do crafts related to sparrow like pencil sketching , painting , paper crafts , toys , embroidery , poem etc......

2) Post it in your blog with a link back to the event .

3) Send your crafts to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com before April 17 , 2010 .Please send the following details :

a) Name
b) Craft Name
c) Link
d) Photo
e) Type of craft

4) Please use the logo . Entries from older posts and multiple entries are allowed .

Enjoy and have more fun .

CHRISTMAS CRAFTS EVENT ROUNDUP

2010-03-13T02:28:00.000-08:00

Hai Friends ,

Sorry for the late posting of this roundup . Here are the cute crafts .

Esther's :

Santa Mask
DIY Nativity Scene
Santa Claus
Butterfly Ornament

Ramya's Teddy on Moon :

and my crafts

Fairy

Christmas Tree Decoration

A WEEKEND TRIP TO ANATHAGIRI - PADMANABHA SWAMY TEMPLE

2010-03-02T01:49:00.000-08:00

Sri Anantha Padmanaba Swamy is located on Ananthagiri hills which is 75 km from Hyderabad.It is a lovely temple to visit . It is a very old temple in which swamy idol is different from the usual balaji statue . Lord vishnu is in the form of Sri Anantha Padmanaba Swamy.
This temple have an underground way to Kasi . This temple was installed by Rishi Markandeya .
The main temple was built by hyderabad nawab . To know more about the temple CLICK HERE.

We had a weekend trip to this temple . It was a wonderful drive through the forest of Ananthagiri Hills . A must place to visit .

Front View of the temple , with huge statues of Lord Anjaneya and Lord Garuda .

This huge tomb is used to lit lights during festivals . They will place lights in each stone .

Very old ganesh idol in the entrance .

Lord Shiva(Lingam ) in the temple .

Statue of Nandi in the front of lingam shrine.

A stand to lit lamp in front of it .

Some forts in the hills ,

Fishes in the pond ,

Sending this to Jagurti's Joy of Cooking while travelling .

SAVE OUR TIGERS

2010-02-20T11:23:00.000-08:00

The major campaign that hit the headlines and all the screens in India is 'SAVE OUR TIGERS . Tiger is our national animal . It is a sad fact to know that there are only 1411 tigers left . They are nearing extinction . It is our responsibility to save them . What are we going to do to save them ?. How are we going to protect them ? .We can go do a small help . We , the bloggers , can be a small part of this awareness campaign regarding this issue.We can spread this information all over the world .We can post this issue in our blog , try in all ways to communicate this major issue to everyone .Each and every small word regarding this will help the tigers .Let us all join hands to 'Save our Tigers .

This is only of the click we took in Nehru Zoological park , Hyderabad , March 2009 :

You can have more information regarding this in www.saveourtigers.com and http://www.elvidge.com/users/jimbo/tigers/news.htm. We celebrate our Earth Day on April 22 . We can take resolution to plant trees every year on this day with our friends , family members and neighbours . We can plant trees in our nearby parks .I appreciate all the playschools for celebrating Earth and Nature's Day to educate the Children about the values of nature . Act soon , let us all hope for the best .

'SAVE OUR TIGERS' , HELP THEM .

PROJECT ON TRANSPORTATION

2010-01-29T06:34:00.000-08:00

This is the project which i made for my daughter's Transportation Day celebration in her school.This took one whole night .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Thermocol sheets -- 2 big size
Black colour sheet -- 2
Popsticks -- 1
Glue
Pebbles -4
Water colours

This picture shows model of ROAD TRANSPORT AND WATER TRANSPORT .

For roads,i used Black colour sheets , made Traffic Signal using Popstick , signal lights using colour cuttings from magazines .

For light house , i used waste invitiation card . I couldn't get a model of miniature of ship in a short time. So,i used cutting from magazine .For rocks, i used pebbles .

One more of this , bike cutting from paper .Popsticks showing signboard.

View from the top ,

This sheet shows model of RAILWAYS AND AIRWAYS .

For tracks , i used popsticks . For runway and helipad , i used black colour sheet .

Thank you friends for having a look of this .

Linking this to :

Show and tell

RANGOLI

2010-01-20T09:17:00.001-08:00

Rangol

2010-01-20T09:17:00.000-08:00

NATURE DAY PROJECT

2010-01-18T11:06:00.000-08:00

This is one of the project which i made for my daughter's school , Earth and Nature's Day Celebration .

Whole view,

Decorated small christmas tree with nest (made of coconut fibre) and eggs of small thermocol pieces.

For grassland,i used green colour sheet and water-coloured river. Made those mountains with aquarium small pebbles .

Carved and painted waterfalls in thermocol sheet,farm fields using woolen threads .

For Den,i used coconut shell.

For Tree , i drew the tree in thermocol sheet and cut it.Then , glued paper cutting from magazines for leaves and branches.

CHRISTMAS CRAFTS EVENT

2009-12-21T09:52:00.000-08:00

Hai friends ,

Well and wish you all the same . After a long time , I am back with my third enjoyable event , Christmas Crafts .

Photo : From Google search

Rules to be followed :

1) Make any type of crafts related to christmas .
2) Post it in your blog with a link back to the event .Feel free to use the logo.
3) Send a mail to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com . You can send christmas decorations in your home too .
4) Last date , January 31,2010.

Enjoy participating...have more fun....
Thank you ,

Cheers,
Shama Nags

RANGOLI IN MY BROTHER'S HOUSE WARMING FUNCTION

2009-11-05T09:27:00.000-08:00

FESTIVAL RANGOLI

2009-10-21T07:39:00.000-07:00