As I have mentioned in my printed ladybugs post, we love printing. When my elder daughter saw my toddler’s ladybugs, she wanted to do a printing project. Using the same technique, we made watermelon this time. Materials needed : 1. Potato 2. Tempera paint 3. Sharpie permanent marker Method : 1. Cut the potato into …
Crepe paper flowers are beautiful. We tried a very simple method to make them. After we used the store brought artificial flowers for our flower hair clips, the stems and leaves were waiting for us to make them some flowers. We used those for attaching our crepe paper flowers. If they were not available, I would …
My elder daughter wanted to do flower printing, when she saw my toddler’s toilet roll flower printing. Considering her age, we did rolled paper flower printing. Materials needed: 1. Construction papers 2. Scissors 3. Tempera paint Method: 1.Cut the construction paper lengthwise to 3 to 4 pieces. The width of the paper does not matter. …
Whenever my toddler wants to paint, my first choice is dot to dot markers. We had done bleaching effect in watercolor with lemon juice and vinegar in the past. Why not, combine both? Tried the bleaching effect in our favorite dot to dot markers. It got bleached away with ordinary water. So cool. We tried …
My toddler loves printing. I got the inspiration of this project from Pop out flowers from No time for flashcards. They had colored the flowers but we used for printing. Materials needed: 1. Toilet paper roll 2. Washable tempera paint 3. White paper 4. Bottle cap Cut the paper roll into pieces. Make vertical …
In my last post, I wrote about how we used rubber band loom to create yarn flower. Those flowers were small. We wanted to create a bigger flower and could not use rubber band loom for that. I was searching for something which has four pegs. When I got the idea of my toddler’s mega …
Few months back, my daughter was always be seen busy working with her rubber bands and loom. Now the interest level is dropped to zero. The loom and rubber bands are lying around without any usage. We tried to make yarn flower using the loom. I was surprised how simple it was to make one. …
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 …
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 …
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. …