Today I am sharing a pipe cleaner snowflake made by my ten year old. Snowflakes made with pipe cleaner is a classic activity and I am sure kids of all ages love that. To make it a little more interesting for my daughter, we rolled the pipe cleaners and made the snowflakes. Materials needed: Pipe cleaner …
My nine year old has seen this pencil topper idea in a book. She is not able to recollect the book details. But she remembered the procedure. So we went ahead and made a duck tape flower pencil topper as part of our back to school idea series. Materials needed: (affiliation links are used) 1. Duck …
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Weaving is classic, simple and mess-free. We made a paper woven art inspired by the design in our straw mat. Along with that, I have collected 15 more simple awesome weaving projects. About our project : Materials needed: 1. Construction papers 2. Scissors Method: We cut 13 strips of purple paper about 1/2 inch in …
As I said in my Crepe paper pencil topper post, we are getting ready for school. We made another pencil topper flower and we made the flower with corn husk. Now corn husk has become a favorite medium for my nine year old to work with. She enjoys working with it. Materials needed: 1. Corn husk …
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We are getting ready for School. We made crepe paper flower pencil topper. It is so simple to make and it is beautiful! Materials needed : 1. Crepe paper 2. Pencil 3. Glue 4. Scissors Method: 1. Take 10 to 15 inches of crepe paper. 2. Fold them three to four times. 3. Make fringes at one …
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After we made our corn husk dolls, I was looking for opportunities to use the corn husks. On a sunny afternoon, we made a corn husk sun. It took us 10 minutes to set up and make. Materials needed: 1. Paper plate 2. Corn husks 3. Tempera paint 4. Paint brush 5. Hot glue gun Method: 1. …
Notan is a Japanese word for “light and dark”. We made Notan art using black and white paper and contrasting colored papers. Both of them turned out good. Materials needed: 1. Construction papers 2. Scissors 3. Glue 4. Pencil Method: 1. Take 2 papers in contrasting colors. For our first work, we took black and white. One …
My grandma taught me to make dolls from chocolate paper, horn husk, paper etc. I love spending time with her. I still remember her simple procedure to make corn husk dolls. I made these corn husk dolls with my nine year old and we both enjoyed making them. Materials needed: 1. Corn husk 2. Corn …
We love crafting with aluminium foil aka aluminum foil. We made flowers out of the kitchen roll and covered them with aluminium foil to create this beautiful aluminium foil flowers wall art. Can you believe this beautiful art is from recycled materials? Materials needed: (affiliation links are used) 1. Empty cereal box 2. Empty kitchen …
I had posted about my preschooler’s tie card for her father. My nine year old wanted to make one for the father’s day. As the father likes cricket very much, we made a cricket ball using paper mache and created a “ball” card! Materials needed: 1. An object to create ball shape – We used plastic …