WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - WHITE TIGER

MY DAUGHTER'S PINGU

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

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

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

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

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