My grandma is very crafty and she was the one who introduced me to paper crafts, crochet, origami etc during my summer vacations. I forgot almost all of them :-(. I remember this simple flower procedure as I have used them for many decorations. Materials needed : 1. Construction paper – White would have been …
May 6th (Tuesday) is the teacher appreciation day. My second grader is on vacation the entire week. So she wanted to give a card to her teacher earlier. She made this card with yarn made flowers bouquet. Materials needed : 1. Yarn 2. Tempera paint 3. Card stock 4. Construction paper 5. White copier paper …
We tried painting with the vegetable mesh bag. It was a fun project. Even my toddler joined the fun. Materials needed : 1. Vegetable mesh bag 2. Tempera paint 3. Tape 4. Copier paper I taped the mesh bag on a piece of paper at all the four corners. Gave the brush and paint to …
I have consolidated ten easy crafts & art ideas to give as gifts for Mother’s day. All these projects use easily available materials. 1. DIY Flower Hair clips – Hair clips from artificial flowers 2. Jewelry from Paper and Aluminium foil – Necklace from paper and aluminium foil beads 3. Watercolor flowers – Watercolor flower art for brightening …
Do you remember the avocado pits we carved sometime back? We used push pins to carve avocado pits. The details are here. Carved pits which we had kept for observation We had kept the pits for observation. They were turning color and were reducing in size. Eventually each pit broke into two halves by themselves. …
One of the major threats to mother Earth is the plastic pollution. We did this simple experiment to see how the plastic bags affect the growth of the plants. Materials needed: 1. Fenugreek seeds ( We used fenugreek seeds as they grow fast. Any other seeds can also be used) 2. Two container to grow …
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What could be a perfect project rather than a recycled one to create a wreath for Earth day? My daughter thoroughly enjoyed creating the milk jug flower wreath. This time when I was thinking to create a wreath for Earth day, she wanted one from milk jug. It is very simple to do and fun for …
This egg is our first experience with store bought air dry clay. In the past, we had done some projects with homemade air dry clay which cracked a little bit when dried. So we wanted to try with commercial product which too cracked for us. But it was fun to work with the clay. Materials …
Once we were using crayon resist for passing secret messages. Then somehow it got stopped. Though watercolor is our favorite medium, we did not use watercolor for long time until recently. When my daughter created secrete birthday message for her father recently, she got hooked again. We took crayon resist to the next level by …
My daughter wanted to do something very colorful to give to her school fuel. She decided to draw flowers but was not interested in regular drawing. We chose to do using aluminium foil. This is the first time we tried and the painting came out beautiful. Affiliation links are used for easy reference. See the …