Jasmine gave me great idea to make this pretty basket. It is simple kids crafts and you can use it as a toy, a stationery holder or even as shopping basket.

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Little children may try to handmade a greeting card at home. They are so simple and fun make. They can be use for any occasion depending on the picture on the front cover and the message you write.

Here’s an example of a Farm Cow craft greeting card which can be used for Happy Birthday greetings. Read more »

If you have about 15 minutes with your little one to make some craft, try the pretty ladybirds which I’m going to show you below. Read more »

We’ve been crafting for sometime and I’m sure if you have been too, you will have bits, pieces and various sizes of leftover unused color paper. It will be wasteful to simply discard them so we always collect them in a folder and put them into good use later.

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It is school holiday! Jasmine suggested that we should make Craft Caterpillar and put it up at my blog . I thought it was a wonderful idea.

Let’s get started.

Materials to make Craft Caterpillar:

1. For caterpillar body, use green and light yellow color paper. You may you any other color combination of your own choice.

2. For caterpillar lips and feelers, use a small piece of red color paper.

3. Double-sided tape

4. Scissors

5. Pencil and marker pen

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6. A round shape to draw caterpillar body. I’m using the round tape to draw this shape.

Steps to Make Craft Caterpillar:

1. Firstly, draw four circles on each color paper.

2. Next, draw four caterpillar legs on each color. I drew extras but ended up using only half of them.

3. Then, draw its mouth.

-Always use pencil to draw before marker.

4. Cut them out.

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5. Using circle shape to make its body, start pasting from the back piece by alternating the color.

6. Paste the legs by alternating its color too.

7. Finally, paste its mouth and feelers. We decided to draw a pretty eye and call it Mommy Caterpillar!

Just when I was blogging the curly hanging mobile yesterday, my daughter Jasmine was curling away. She kept curling other paper strips and join them together. That gave me the inspiration to make an Octopus using the curling paper technique!

Shall we learn today? Let’s get started!

The Materials Needed Are:
1. For octopus tentacles- Cut 8 pieces of paper strips 2.5cm x 29.7cm. You can use assorted colors if you like.

2. For octopus face – A5 paper which you can see in yellow here.

3. A pencil

4. My beloved craft scissors

5. A stapler or double-sided tape

6. Some strings

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Steps to Make Craft Octopus:

1. Firstly, to make tentacles, curl the paper strips tightly up to half the length and hold for a while. This will help the curl to stay longer.

2. When you’re done, it should look something like this.

3. Next, stapler them together. What I did was stapling alternate colors and four strips in a group.

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4. Draw the octopus face. I used marker here so that it is clearer. Cut it out.

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5. Next, you may use double -sided tape to stick the tentacles to the octopus face. A group of four on each side.

6. Lastly, use some string and stick it to the top back of the face and you may hang it just anywhere you like!

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The curling technique is simple and easy to do. It can make a wide range of paper crafts. It is really up to your imagination and creativity. Firstly, I’m going to show you how to make a hanging mobile paper craft using the curling technique.

Here is what we need:

1. Some colored papers

2. My beloved craft scissors

3. A pencil

4. Double-sided tape or stapler

5. Some strings

Steps to Make Curling Paper Mobile:

1. Cut out colored paper into paper strips of 29.7cm height x 2.5cm width using the craft scissors. Quantity and color to your preference.

2. Using two hands (my other hand holding camera), curl the paper strips. You may make tight or loose curl and stop at any length to make paper curls.

3. Repeat this step with all the paper strips you had cut out.

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4. Using double sided tape, adhere curled strip together from the top (non-curl side).

5. Repeat this step until you achieve this.

6. Send me your version of curly hanging mobile and I’ll publish it here!

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Surely it is a waste to make some craft and forget about its where about. If it happens often and you would like to try something new, why not try doing some paper craft and hang it in the children’s room. You will never misplace it!

Here is what we need:

1 Some colored paper (preferably thickness about 125gsm)- draw lines across about 2.5cm width.

2. Craft scissors (again!)

3. Stapler

4. Double sided tape

5. Some messy strings (just kidding!)

I’m going to show the  making of ‘Family Heart Shapes’. Which also means, the more you have in your family, the more heart shapes you will make.

1. Firstly, cut the colored paper into strips about 2.5cm width each. Then fold  it into half.

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2. Next, by holding both the edges inward, form a heart shape and stapler them together.

By the way, the secret that I never mentioned about is that if you’re using A4 paper, the length of the paper is 29.7cm. This length is just right to make a ‘Big sister heart’ size.

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3. For other hearts, you need to join the strip to get longer length.

Recommended length:

When you’re done stapling, here is how all the heart would look like.

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4. Now that we’ve got all the Family Heart, it is time to label them ‘Daddy’, ‘Mommy’, ‘Sister’, ‘Brother’ – by names if you like.

Then, attach the string using double sided tape from the top.

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5. Next, attach the string by tying the bottom. Repeat this step to attach all the hearts together.

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6.Here you are, the hanging ‘Family Hearts Paper Craft’.

Can you think of other family shapes?

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You may make simple craft using an embosser.  Some embosser comes with extra refill which gives extra fun!

It is light weight and does not require much strength to get a pattern on paper. So even a preschooler can use it with ease.

Let’s take a look at how an embosser can make simple paper craft.

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1. Firstly, cut out the background card. Choose any color or size. Preferably thicker paper which makes it last longer.  If you have a pair of craft scissors, use it to cut the paper’s border to get better effect.

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2. Here’s the exciting part – embossing. By using different color paper from the background card, simply press lightly on paper. Repeat with assorted colored papers with different embosser pattern.

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3. Next, use a suitable size round shape like a coin or a bottle cap to draw the border. Repeat this step with all the embossed pattern.

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4. If you see some ballons, then you had definitely guessed right!

Using some string and double sided tape, attach it to the back.

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5. Here you are – Embossed pattern on paper which gives flying balloons effect.

You may add some simple messages like ‘Congratulation’! or ‘Happy Birthday’!

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I was browsing an Art and Craft book that day and I came across this beautiful idea – literally BEAUTIFUL!

It is making rubbings on textured surface such as leaves. It is very suitable art and craft activity for young children and it creates awareness for them about natural beauty.

It is definitely an easy art and craft for a preschooler that can be done in three simple steps.
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1. Collect Leaves

The things you need are simply plain white paper, crayons and some leaves. Try collecting leaves in different shapes and sizes. It will give better results!

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2. Trace

Next, place white paper on a leaf and use crayon to color over it. Repeat with different leaf and color until the paper is filled-up.

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3. Complete

If you can do better, please send me your copy and I’ll publish it here!

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Jasmine learned Paper Pattern Craft from school and I was amazed by what she did. Children don’t always have to learn from us. This time I learned from her

Mummy was completely good girl following the steps she showed me. While she did the steps, below is my version of paper pattern craft.

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Started with paper folding, drawing and cutting. The end result was simply awesome. Here is how to do it:

1.Firstly, cut the paper into square shape. I was using an A4  size paper by folding the edge to get a square and cutting out the extra paper to get a square.

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2. Next, fold the square paper ideally three times to make a small triangle. You may fold more times if you wish to get a smaller triangle which will result in more repeated motives later. However, more folds result in thicker paper and it may be tougher to cut.

If you are using paper bigger than A4 size, you may try to fold more than three times.

3. When you are done folding, draw the shapes of your choice. Remember to only draw at the edge. Draw only half of the shape. For example, if you would like to have a heart shape, draw only one side of the heart. See depicted picture.

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4. Next, carefully cut out the shapes you had drawn. Set the cut out shapes aside for later use.

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5. Now, when you open it up, you will get a beautiful cut out paper craft. Gently glue it to a colored paper. Use the cut out shapes to paste at the edge as a border.

Is this considered a Mother’s Day gift? Self made…hmm….

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