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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Sometimes your toddler throws horrible temper tantrum, you just wished you can bury your head like an ostrich! It is awfully embarrassing for a parent.

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In the previous part, we tried to understand why toddlers throw tantrum. This part, we try to deal with it. Each recommended solution is related to part 1.

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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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Cinderella . The Three Little Pigs. Peter Pan.

Bedtime stories are all time favorite of young children. They are great for bedtime. They are great for leisure time. They are simply kids companion.

There are many reasons why we should have bedtime stories and some are listed below:

1. Bonding. When you read to your child, both of you are of close proximity – physically and psychologically. Your child will feel loved because of your companion.

2. Moral values. While there are amusing, bedtime storiesteaches children a wide span of moral values. The Kid Who Called for Wolf teaches children not to tell lies and make jokes on people.

3. Good night sleep. Children can have a hard day too. Reading a story book before bedtime simply eases sleep and encourage sweet dreams. We surely never emphasis them on the scary monsters and trolls.

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4. Learn to read and spell. Story books have high accuracy of proper usage of English language. Children are sure to pick up good command of grammar and spelling which improves their language easily.

5. Encourage writing. Do not be surprise that you child may be inspired to be an author later in life. They learn by good examples from authors in writing stories and definitely improves a child’s composition skills.

6. Friendly and soothing images. More often than not, bedtime stories offer better images than the TV and internet. They are child friendly and you need not worry about children being exposed violent images.

7. Encourage children thinking and imagination. Alice in Wonderland is a great example. Isn’t it fascinating to see Alice chasing after little rabbit? Surely children would be curious to know what the lead role is going through. When child go through a story, they will always imagine themselves as the lead role and kept thinking about how the story will end.


8. Learn to love books at young age. When children learn to love books, it becomes part of them. Their engagement becomes their hobby.

9. Encourage sibling sharing. Older children who can express themselves well can tell stories to younger sibling. They share. They bond. They rival lesser.

10. Learning and accepting villain in reality. While most bedtime stories places emphasis on good characters, children will also learn about the existence of villain in the reality world. The big bad wolf, the witch and the pirates are somehow important in the peak of the storyline. Children will also learn that the story always concludes with villain receiving retribution. Which is important for them to know that it should happen in reality too.

So you have all the reasons to grab a bedtime story book today! Good night. Sweet dreams.