Kids play clock using old CD - best out of waste

Hi Friends

Sharing a simple craft made by little miss for her school "Best out of waste" activity. 

We used an old CD and altered it into a little clock with moving dials, so that it can be used to learn the concept of time. Do let me know how you liked our simple creation.

Ganpati with old CD - best out of waste

Hi friends. .sharing a ganpati bappa craft today. It is upcycled creation using old CD's.  This is made by a little girl Bhumi in our society. .as part of the best out of waste competition held in society on independence day.
I really liked the idea and her execution and thought of sharing it during ganpati festival.
Do let me know how you liked this creation.

Kids Puppet theater | Kids craft

Hi Friends

Sharing a lovely craft that me and little miss did few days back. Little missy wanted me to make some penguin cutouts for her her and then insert some straw so that she can make them dance and play with them!
We created some of these, then I thought why not make a little theater for her to play with these. She is very good at story telling and that would give her little puppets a stage and her creativity a platform :)

So started looking for some old boxes. Cut out the desired stage out of it. Wrapped it with black paper. Then we made a slit for the puppets. Decorated the theater with beautiful curtains and cup cake liners. Viola our little theater was ready! We had our little fairy, birdie, penguin, Christmas tree, some snow etc ready to create different story acts with.

Do let us knpw how you liked our little craft.

Sending this to :
trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.in/2016/06/challenge-370-30th-of-june-add-ribbon.html?m=1

T for Tortoise

Hi friends

Sharing our cute little tortoise made with paper plate and green paper. We cut out the tortoise and below and stuck it. Later little miss painted the shell with finger paint! all done. Enjoy our conversation after our Mr Tortoise was ready to rock :)

27/10/14

We were making a paper plate tortoise. 

After finishing, missy and tortoise had a lovely converstion..wish i would have recorded it! Missy was spaking such fluently and with full accent! Proud of you babu..way to go! Here is a excerpt of the converstion, nothing exaggerated  here :)

Saachi: Hello tortoise, how are you today?

Tortoise: I am very well Saachi, how are you today?

Saachi: I am fine. Where do you live?

Tortoise:I live in a pond.

Saachi: Is it?

Tortoise: yeh, and where do you live Saachi?

Saachi: Here. (in my home, i said)

Saachi: Where are your parents?

Tortoise: They live with me here in the pond, and where are your parents?

Saachi:I dont have parents. (opps, I explained her mummy papa are called parents)

Tortoise: Where is your dad?

Saachi: He is in office.

Tortoise: and where is your mom.

Saachi : She is here.

Tortoise: And do you love your mom and dad?

Saachi: Yes I lov-e them.....

Tortoise: Which is your favourite song?

Saachi: A, B, C D..

Tortoise: Is it, I thouht you like "Guess how much I love you " :). It was nice talking to you saachi, now its time for me to go.

Saachi: Ok Tortoise, I loved talking to you. Take care. Talk to you later. Bye.

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DIY flower pot from table salt jar | Easy kids craft

200th post! wow, feels like just yesterday that I started blogging to preserve some of my crafts that I created before marriage. 

Keeping this post short and simple, let me share the flower pot that little missy and me made using table salt jar.We punched some colored tissue paper flowers. Modge podged them to the jar for the background. Embellished with foam butterflies and flowers. Some washi tape for the rim. Simple :)

Do let us know how you liked it.

Linking this to:
http://artsycraftsymom.com/diy-holi-gift-tags/

Kids craft - Toilet Paper roll watch and some tidbits

Hi Peeps

Sharing this simple tp roll craft. Just cut the roll and stick the circle with numbers on it. Makes cute little watches for little ones to play and learn !

Recently we see little miss talking so fluently in English and that too with very good vocabulary and aussie accent too!

Some of her chirpings..

S: Mumma are you alright down there?
(Ofcourse sweety when you ask so sweetly :))

We went to the park in front of our house. While coming back little S wanted her friend didi P to come home. They both played very well. When did P was leaving with her parents, we asked miss S to say " Thanks for coming to my house didi". Instead she formed her own sentence and said
"Thank you for reading me book P didi!"
Wow proud of you to have our own thinking at this age sweetheart.

Little S: thats not funny!!!

Little s: silly me!

We were trying to convince little S to sleep on her own bed.
Me: Little S you should sleep on your small bed dear, It has beautiful pink bedsheet.
Little S: Then i will be nice and cozy mumma?
Me: yes ofcourse :)

Little S wants to be baby now. Cant call her good girl, it should be good baby. And somtimes baby boy!
Little S: girls for blue boys for pink!
and since she is a baby boy, she likes pink (So much of reasoning goes in that little mind!)

We were going to see christmas lights with her Didi P. That day i made little S wear black and white skirt and top (I got bored with all pink around)
But alas didi P wore pink dress that too dungree pattern which is little S's hot favourite!
Little S: Didi P wearing pink dungree dress! Why is mine not pink :((
She got so upset while in the car. Started begging to go back home so she could wear somthing pink!!
Never seen her compare her dress like this before ..bring it on girly :) 

Zigby | Toilet paper roll Zibra Tutorial

Hi friends

Sharing with you a very simple and cute craft today which me and my little one did recently. As you may be aware of our love for tp rolls, we brought them to life again by making a zibra out of them.

You will need:
3 Toilet paper rolls
1 kitchen roll
Glue gun/ PVA glue
White and black acrylic paints
white paper
black pen

Steps:
1. Cut the rolls for body and head as shown.
2. Stick them as shown in the pic below.
3. Paint it with white acrylic paint.
4. Paint lines with black paint after the white paint dries.
5. Cut a white paper to make the eyes and ears.
6. You can make tail also with rolling the paper. I used a balck and white washi tape.
Your Zibra is ready to rock in the childs play sets!

Sending this to

http://lulupu.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/lulupu-challenge-41-childs-play.html?m=1

http://www.creativejewishmom.com

http://anythingbutacard.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/whatever-strikes-your-cre8time-fancy.html?m=1

http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/craft-room-challenge-89-anything-3d.html

http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/challenge-90-friendship.html

http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/anything-goes-challenge.html

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/week-285-anything-but-card.html

Toilet paper roll fishes!

Hello crafty people!

Wanna join us in some fishing! Yep me and my little one made these cutie fishes. We love crafting with toilet paper rolls. My little angel loves painting. Sometimes I would think of some new technique or new design that we can paint..but sometimes the exhausted me after office and home, just gives her tp rolls and paints..and here i have a happy child painting her heart out! So we had these colorful paper rolls with us. Loved turning them into fishes with simple steps.

Steps:
1. Color the tp rolls
2. Cut two slits near one end of the roll, fold it upwards.
3. Open the fold and bend it inside
4. Cut the front to make the face
5. Decorate the fish as per your choice. You can use googly eyes to make the eyes.
We decorated our fishes using sequences,  scrunched tissue paper,  beads, paper cuttings. Also made some designs using 3d glitter outliner.

 

Sending this to:
Artsy Craftsy Mom - kid friendly recycled craft
Lessology - animal kingdom

Kids activity - Cup cake liner flowers

Hi dear crafty friends 

Sharing today a very simple craft that me and my little one enjoyed recently. I had some pretty cup cake liners lying in my pantry, so thought of beautifying the house with these. 

My little S is now very pro at paper cutting. She loves to cut paper and I make her put it in one bowl, so that it is not all over the place.

With this craft, I tried to enhance her paper folding skills. We both folded the cup cake liners multiple times. Then I showed her how to cut it (which she did on her own for most of the flowers), and slowly she unfolded it to get a beautiul flower!!

Made some leaves with green paper and outlined it with sketch pen. Layered the flowers and sticked little magnets magnets behind them. They now adorn my fridge. :)

You can check the very simple tutorial of this here.

Sending this to Artsy Craftsy Mom  - Kid friendly Recycled craft

Happy mothers day + TP roll giraffe

Wish you a very happy mothers day dear friends! Hope you have a lovely time with your family this weekend.

I had a amazing day today..with lovely kisses and wishes from my little one. We went to the park with two other families..the weather was good and we had a blast out there..the childern enjoyed the new play area. The adults played with ball, the chain game, dumb charades followed by amazing home made food. While I am typing this post, we are awaiting another get together for a dinner :)

How did you celebrate mothers day, do let me know.

Sharing with you a lovely lovely gift that my little one gave me today. Its the cutest giraffe i have ever seen..made by us (ofcourse!)

We used 4 tp rolls and one kitchen roll, cut them as shown below and stuck them together.
Then we coated our girafe with 2 layers of yellow poster color. Made the spots in brown. The hair are handcut from a maroon handmade paper.

I first saw this at crafty crafted site (http://www.crafty-crafted.com/animal-crafts/toilet-paper-roll-giraffe/)
..and was waiting to try it, m happy (very :)) with the result.How do you like our giraffe?

Linking this to :
http://www.homeschoolingmom4two.com/2014/05/JustForKidsLinkUpWeek12.html

http://rainydaymum.co.uk/5-homemade-math-games-kids

http://funkypolkadotgiraffe.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Too%20Cute%20Tuesday

http://www.gingersnapcrafts.com/search/label/%7Bwow%20me%7D%20wednesday

http://www.vmg206.com/

http://www.jaqsstudio.com/

http://itsybitsyindia.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/the-itsybitsy-anything-but-card.html

Sending this to Artsy Craftsy Mom  - Kid friendly Recycled craft

Kids craft - Paper roll and gift wrap paper apple tree

A very simple and beautiful apple tree. All you need is a paper roll, gift wrapping paper and a red sketch pen. Cut one end of the toilet roll to make the branches. You can color the roll with brown color(optional).

Draw small red apples on the tissue paper. Scrunch it and put inside the braches of paper roll. Viola!! your apple tree is ready :) and you have a happy little one admiring it. I love the fresh look of the tree very much and could not stop admiring it myself :) Do try this simple craft and share with me.

Sending this to Artsy Craftsy Mom  - Kid friendly Recycled craft

Newspaper Punch Craft Collage

Hi dear friends..how have you all been? 

Sharing with you today a very simple craft which I did with my little one. It requires very simple supplies, which we all have at home. 

We drew a tree roughly on a white A4 sheet. Punched some small scallop circles from newspaper (the green prints), and decorated our tree. You can handcut any shape randomly, I wanted to use my new punch hence the scallop circles ;) The stalk is painted with water colors and highlighted with sketch pens. 

Simple isnt it? and it gives so much fun to the little ones.. to apply glue or stick the pieces!

Sending this to Artsy Craftsy Mom  - Kid friendly Recycled craft

Quilled Animal Train

Hi Peeps,

I am back to quilling after a long time, ya I was bit bored with it, but now enjoying it again..

Here is a lovely frame I made for little S with a quilled train carrying the animals. It has a quilled panda bear, elephant, lion, monkey, owl, giraffe and a lovely rainbow and cloud. And not to forget a beautiful bright Sun which is a digi.  The frame as usual is completely handmade (yes you remember the diaper box, dont you?? ;)) I used a  lovely magenta handmade paper for the frame. 

I am not veeery happy with the pictures. Actually took these from iphone. My daughter decided to chew on the battery of the digi cam and not it is not working :(
Maybe will post some shots again when I get my SLR..sigh..hehe

Detailed shots

 This is how it adorns our drawing room wall. I have surrounded it with lovely wall décor.

Sending it to
Indian Craft Room challenge 21 - Sketch + use a metal (I used the 2nd sketch and a metal as the train headlight) - I have kept the centre blank for a photo with sentiment.

crafty creations challenges - Back to school in the animal train!

hands 2 hearts - Happy Holidays!
cas-ualfridays - Top of the class

ppp-make it monday