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 …
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 …
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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