LEAFY DUCK --A BOOK REVIEW

Hai all , Back again with n interesting kids craft , following a story 'Duck Paddles in the pond' .Interesting book for kids .

We crafted this with Cabbage leaves ....it was a real fun
......craft it with kids and enjoy....

Linking it with Artsy Craftsy Challenge - Animal Crafts

INDIAN EMBLEM

THINGS REQUIRED :

Water colours

Paper

Colour pens

Tissue paper holder

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED:

1) Draw 4 lions and colour it.

2) Glue it to the tissue paper holder.

3) Make oval shape cut outs of plain white paper and arrange it as shown .

4) Glue it in the centre to a bottle cap form lotus.

5) Mount lions over it .Emblem is ready.

Linking it up with Shruthi' Artsy Craftsy Challenge - India

INDIA - COLLAGE

THINGS REQUIRED :


Paper plate
Water colours


STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Paint indian flag in the plate .
2) Glue words decribing india .Teach your kids about india through the related words.


Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy Challenge - India.

OLYMIC TORCH - 4

Oympic fever is running up very high day by day . Here is yet another torch from us to join the race of olympic themed crafting . ....

THINGS REQUIRED : 


Yellow/Orange coloured chart paper.
Glue
Colour pens


STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :


1) Draw torch and cut it out as shown .

2) Fold it as shown .

3) Glue it as shown .

4) Glue few orange flames too . Open the torch and stuff it up with waste paper .Torch is ready to play with .

CUP PAPER FLOWERS

THINGS REQUIRED :


Cupcake baking paper 
Coloured charts/paper
Buttons
Glue


STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :


1) Make stem and leaves of coloured paper and glue to a chart .
2) Use cup papers for flowers and glue button to the centre .
3) Draw a garden and glue it to the wall .Linking it up with Colors Dekor , Weekly story ~ 88 .

PAPER ICE-CREAM

Summer holidays have started . Too bright too sultry !!!! ......Finishing scoops and scoops of ice-cream in seconds !!!!!!.

Linking this ice-cream for Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy - July 2012 and Weekly story 87 @ Colors dekor

We got some crafts card stuff from a summer fun fair.......while stacking them down, my daughter said can we cut ice-cream out of it ..Hurray !!! What a colourful 5 yr kid idea !!!! ....Sure , we made it....enjoyed playing with them....one for my daughter and the other for my son........Got them glue with blue tack to the wall !!!

THINGS REQUIRED :

Coloured cards

Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Stack the coloured cards in layers .

2) glue them

3) When dried , cut an yummy ice-cream of it .

WATER MELON

This is again from my daughter's work ....designed by her for fruit theme rock painting . She painted water melon . This can be re-used as Paper weights .

FRUITY FACES

This was done by my daughter in school to design their own fruity faces .

FATHER'S DAY CARD FROM MY DAUGHTER

STICK ICE CRAFT - 2

THINGS REQUIRED :


Popsicle 
Brown coloured plastic cover
Glue




STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Cut a long rectangle strip of the bag/cover
2)Fold the cover to form a smaller rectangle .Taped its edges.
3)Stuff it with remaining transparent cover to give a glossy feel.

4)Glue a stick in the centre.Chocolate stick ice is ready.


Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy - July 2012 

COLOURFUL LAYERED ICE-CREAM

THINGS NEEDED :

Coloured plastic bags
Cardboard 
Cotton
Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Make 2 cones out of carboard . One smaller and on bigger.
2) Cut strips of coloured plastic bags . 
3) Glue them to the smaller cone in layers.
4) Open up the smaller cone and stuff it with cotton.
5) Fill some cotton in the bigger and glue the smaller one to it .


Layered ice cone is ready to play with .Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy - July 2012 

STICK ICE CRAFT

The concept of this craft is very simple and same as making of soft toys . I remember my school days of making butterfly of velvet cloth .

THINGS REQUIRED :

 
Popsicle 

Velvet/Felt cloth

Cotton balls

Needle and thread

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED : 

1) Cut out ice shape out of the cloth . 

2) Turn back the cloth . Stitch its corner and leave a small space in the bottom for popsicle.Then , turn to the front side .

3)Stuff few cottons inside the stitched cloth for a feel of the ice .Then glue stick ans stcich the opened corner.

Stick ice is ready to play with .Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy - July 2012 

CONE ICE-CREAM

THINGS REQUIRED :


Brown coloured paper/card 
Coloured sponge craft balls
Few cotton balls


STEPS TO FOLLOWED :


1) Make a cone of coloured paper .
2) Glue and stack coloured balls in it .

Cone ice cream is ready to play with . Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy - July 2012 .

BEACH : CREATING A COOL SCENE

THINGS REQUIRED : 


Waste Cardboard 
Blue coloured plastic covers
Cotton wools
Pictures from magazines


STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :


1) Glue blue coloured cover scraps to make a sea .
2) Glue pictures of boys and ball to create a play scene .
3) Glue pictures of Surfers , Kids splashing in the bay and playing in the sand.
4) A picture of a boat and sun coloured by my daughter .
5) Glue cotton wools for clouds .


A Bright beach scene has be re-created .


 Linking it up with BGC Challenge - Sea .

MAGICAL HAND - NEMO AQUARIUM

Last week , we read the book ' Finding Nemo ' . It was a wonderful read....my daughter enjoyed the story . 




We designed our own Nemo at home . 

THINGS REQUIRED : 

Waste Cardboard 
Blue cover plastic bags
Orange and White colour paper
Glue
Googly eyes
Plant pictures from magazines .
Waste Croissant boxes .

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED : 

1) Cut the blue bag to long pieces and glue it to the board .

2) Cut out the hand prints and make fish as shown below .

3) Take an empty croissant case . Glue the board in it and tape it sides .

4) Aquarium is ready to play with .

 Linking it up with Colours Dekor - Weekly wrap up ~ 84 .

Linking it with Artsy Craftsy Challenge - Animal Crafts

STICK MAN - PUPPET

My daughter desinged this puppet with my son's hand and foot prints . Isn't it a lovely craft/gift for my son from his sister ?...... We were really happy to see her creativity.....good job dear .

Linking it up with Colours dekor Made with love - June .

OLYMPIC TORCH - 2

Teaching kids about some important special events like Olympic games , World Book Day , Earth day  can be easily taught through crafts . We crafted this torch to represent olympic games .

MATERIALS REQUIRED : 

Long cup / glass /Vase 

Aluminium/Silver/Golden wrapper

Colurs Red / Orange colour papers

Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED : 

1) Wrap up the cup with aluminium paper .

2) Draw england flag with oylmpic symbol + year and glue to it .

3) For flames , cut outs red and orange colour paper strips and stuff it in the cup .
Torch is ready to play with .

Linking it up with Weekly story 83 . 

MY DAUGHTER'S WORK - PAPER CUTTING FAMILY

My daughter's summer term break is up...she enjoyed doing this craft on her own without my help or idea .  Happy to see her thoughts and work . She really surprised us with these cards from her work room .

She cut out the shapes for the human body parts , coloured it and then glue it in a card . Linking it up with Colours Dekor , Made with love - June .

MAGICAL HAND - BUTTERFLY

Wished to gift a special different gift for my husband on our 8 th wedding anniversary . Hence , I took hand printouts of my two kids and made this butterfly.

MATERIALS REQUIRED : 

Colour board sheets
Pipe cleaner
Google eyes
Glue
Decoration items/Confetti .

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Take prints of hand and cut it out .

2) Glue them .
3) Glue pipe cleaner with eyes .
4) Decorate it .

Linking it up with Made with Love - June in Colours Dekor .

PAPER FLOWER

Yet another simple flower craft for kids .

MATERIALS REQUIRED : 

Crafts paper 

Straw 

Tapes/Stapler

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Cut out circles of different sizes of craft paper.

2) Make a hole in the center of the circles .

3) Stack it to the straw , with bigger one first followed by smaller ones.

4) Crush all the circles with the straw and staple it firmly . Then tape it around . 
Flowers are ready .