Tambourine

I planned to do this craft with my kids a long time ago but if you remembered me saying the shop that sells these bells had run out of stock. More like no longer selling them to me.

Anyway, I found Daiso selling the bells (much bigger and cheaper!) , 20 a pack for $2. I bought a pack. :)

My daughter fell asleep in the late evening today and was not able to sleep at her usual bedtime. So I decided to do this with her without my son. He can always do it on his own tomorrow. :)



Materials needed:

• 1 Paper Plate
• 10 Bells or any quatity you like
• 10 Pipe Cleaners or according to the no. of bells you have
• Colouring Medium (optional)

How to do it:

1. If you like, draw a picture on the bottom of the plate for your child to colour.
2. 'String' the bells with the pipe cleaners.
3. Punch holes on the edge of the plate leaving a side free for your child to hold later.
4. Twist pipe cleaner with the bell through the punched hole to secure it.
5. If your child is very young, you might want to tape the lose end of the pipe cleaners to the plate (side without the picture), so as not to poke him.
6. Now make so music!
   

Button Flowers

This is an alternative to the craft I did with my daughter much earlier. We had intended to make these flowers for her teachers but the shop selling the bells had ran out of bells.


So I used buttons instead of bells. We gave each teacher 2 flowers of Bell and Button Flowers in a stalk each. It looked a lot more nicer.

I'm repeating the instructions here for easy reference.

Materials needed:

• Cardboard Paper (We used index card)
• Pipe Cleaner/Wire (We used wire)
• Button
• Colouring Medium (We used colour pens)

How to do it:

1. Draw the outline of a flower on the cardboard.
2. Cut out the flower.
3. Colour the flower.
4. Use a pencil to poke 2 small holes in the center of the flower.
5. Fold the wire into half.
6. Thread the wire through the holes of the button and through the holes on the paper.
7. The button should be in the middle of the pipe cleaner.
8. Twist the wire together.
9. Bent the flower forward and it's done.
   

Veggie Rose Card

This is part 2 of my son's Teachers' Day Gift and is soooo overdue.

I happened to cook xiao bai cai and kept the ends to do this. My son said it looked like a rose.

I had my son use it to stamp on cards and my daughter was just having a little fun stamping away on a piece of drawing paper.



Materials needed:

• End of Xiao Bai Cai
• Assorted Paints, acrylic paint preferred if you intend to colour over it.
• Assorted Colour Pencils
• Cardboard

How to do it:

1. Use a paper plate to hold the paints.
2. Dip veggie into paint.
3. Transfer to paper and stamp away.
4. Set aside to dry.
5. Colour using colour pencils over if you like.