Fun With Boxes and Paint

During the school holidays, we had some fun with boxes and paint. It's quirky but I love keeping boxes. Now, I get to use some of the boxes in my storeroom.

Got this idea from a friend who made a three tier chest drawer with some boxes. After some modification, we made a four column chest drawer out of boxes and paper mache. The children enjoyed applying glue onto strips of paper and painting (with me holding their hands).

The outside of our chest drawer.

The children chose their own favorite color for their individual compartment.


Karl wanted a house on grass and he wanted the sky orange with white clouds. So, that's what I have drawn using a square paint brush.

Our end product.
The tissue boxes were too nice to do paper mache.

My Mother's Day Gifts

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Fun With Glittering Glue Stick

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Napkin Rabbit

Wondering how a napkin rabbit look like? Presenting the cute little napkin rabbit:

It's a craft which requires folding skill. Let's work magic to turn a napkin into a rabbit. Your little ones would love it.

Materials:

1. Napkin (paper or cloth)
2. Marker


Methods:

Fold (see picture)

Click images to enlarge

Source: The Tale of Napkin Rabbit by A. J. Wood.

What do you do with this rabbit?

My children each get one and they give the rabbits each a name, build them a house and take care of the rabbit like a real pet. Good practice before getting them a real pet, eh?

Do you know this song:

There’s a cottage in the wood

A little deer by the window stood

Saw a rabbit hopping by

Frighten as can be

“Help me, help me” the rabbit said

There’s a hunter to shoot me dead

“Come little rabbit come with me, happy as can be.”

Let your little ones hold their napkin rabbits and hop around when you sing that song.

Tell them stories about rabbits such as the story of The Rabbit and The Tortoise and let the children play the role of rabbit by holding their napkin rabbits.

So, if you are short of craft ideas or activities for your children, this may be another choice!

A Craft We Did In Playgroup

Can you see the crafts? The sunflower craft on both sides? Not very clear though but those were the crafts my little ones learned during playgroup session one Saturday. This craft was Kelly's idea and if you want to know how to go about making this sunflower, please click here to hop over to Kelly's blog. She is one mummy who is very creative when it comes to crafts.

So, how can I put those crafts in the box after so much effort put in by my little ones? I just can't. They now lie peacefully on the wall of my bedroom.

Craft For Children - Playgroup 1 March 2008

Here's a simple craft for small children where children can enjoy sticking color strips of paper on to the animal printouts.

Materials:

1. Printout of animal pictures
2. Color paper cut into small strips
3. Glue


Methods:

1. Cut color paper into small strips.
2. Print pictures of animals.
3. Apply glue onto the whole picture.
4. Stick color paper strips onto picture.

After you are done, what do you do with the animal collage? Keep in the box? NO!!


What about doing these?

1. Cut out the animal collage and stick it on a cardboard to make a cute greeting card.
2. Cut a big strip of cardboard the size of your child's head to make a cute hat. Stick the animal collage in the middle and let's role play! (See picture)
3. Suggestion one can be modified and be made a wall decoration instead of a greeting card.
4. Suggestion two can be modified and be made the outer layer of a pencil stand instead of a hat. We would need a container to measure the diameter of the cardboard instead of our child's head.

So, this would be our craft for tomorrow's playgroup. Do you think the children will like this?

Friendly Spider

How about an itsy bitsy spider for our playgroup craft session?

Here's the materials:

• Sugar paper (A4 size)
• Pencil
• Colour paper (white, red)
• Scissors
• Your child's hand (Note: this is not a material)

Method:

• Fold sugar paper into half.

• Place your child's hand on the paper with the bottom of the palm placed on the folded part of the paper.
• Trace it with a pencil.

• Cut out the traced hand. Cut away the traced thumb and open it.

• Draw circles on white and black paper and cut them out. (spider's eyes)
• Draw a crecent on red paper and cut it out. (spider's mouth)

• Glue the eyes and mouth to the cut out sugar paper.
• Here's your friendly spider smiling at you.

That's not all, we plan to have special activities too. Cheng Sim and I are ready and let's hope our plan works out nicely. We hope to see happy and excited children.

Look out for updates on our playgroup in Chinnee's blog or my blog.

Craft for Playgroup - 12 January 2008

This would be tomorrow’s craft for our little ones in the playgroup, a simple craft that would make children happy.


This mini bag can be used as:

1. A “Story Bag” where parents cut out pictures of characters in a story and use them when telling stories.


2. A wallet containing paper money in a game of seller and buyer.


3. A wallet to bring to school. Karl made himself one and put real coins in it. He brings to school everyday.


4. A “Sticker Bag” where children keep their unused stickers.


5. A “Star Bag” where children keep their stars which they earn for behaving from their parents.


6. Others (Can you give me more suggestions?)

Materials:

1) A4 size color paper

2) Stickers

3) Color pen

Method:

1) Fold as shown:

2) Turn pape over and fold as shown below:

3) Insert and fold as shown below:

4) Insert and fold as shown:

5) Flatten and decorate it with stickers and color pen.