Gift Tags

We made gift tags to attached with the Chocolate Cheese Truffles for my son's teachers. This is a simple craft. Since my son didn't want to draw so many cards. We used craft punches instead.

Originally, my son wanted to give the Magnetic Bookmarks he made few days ago to two of his teachers but they were to big to fit into the gift box, so we made another two smaller ones.

Materials needed:

• Coloured Paper (our size was 5.5cm x 5.5cm)
• Glue (Stick glue preferred as it will not curl the paper)
• * additional tools needed - assorted craft punches

How it is done:

1. Just stick the punched out shapes to the paper.
2. Either fill up one side of the paper and can write your message of the reverse side.
3. Or leave some space to write your message in front.

Note:
You can use sticker, glitters to decorate too!

* Tags we made *

Chocolate Cheese Truffles

This is what we made for Teachers' Day. It's Chocolate Cheese Truffles, something easy that can be managed by kids themselves.

However, I changed the procedure of my original recipe a bit. Instead of melting the chocolate in a pot over a pot of boiling water, I have the bowl of chopped chocolate in another (heavy) bowl of hot water. I don't want my son to get himself scalded by boiling water as it will be still bubbling. And to keep the chocolate ganache soft for rolling, I have a bowl of hot water at the bottom to act as a 'steamer'.

I put the chocolates in a bag and pack them in gift box or attached a tag with it.

My son had fun, making the Chocolate Cheese Truffles for his teachers. We have to make another batch again because there weren't any left for us.

Dual Colour Gift Box

It's Teachers' Day today and we had decided to make Chocolate Cheese Truffles for the teachers. We needed a nice gift box to put the Chocolate Cheese Truffles and to do that I tried to recalled how gift box I received at wedding dinners were like and finally got done. Maybe not exactly how it's like but it will do.

Materials needed:
(to make 1 gift box)

• 2 different colours paper

How to do it:

• Print or draw the template of the box on the papers.
• Cut them out.
• Fold along the dotted lines.

Note:
I printed out all the templates because we had to make six boxes.

How to assemble the box:

1. Slip the two pieces of paper through the slit at the base.
2. Now you have one across another looking like a '+'.
3. Fix the flaps in green in the picture by fixing the two flaps beside the yellow paper, together through the slits.
4. Repeat for the other flaps on the other side.
5. To 'close' the box, have one flap fold down.
6. Fold the next flap over the first flap.
7. Lift the round' leaf' of the first flap to the top.
8. Repeat for the next two flaps to complete.
   

• Click here for the template of the gift box.

Magnetic Bookmarks

It has been sometime that I last did crafts with my kids. I have a few crafts that I wanted they to do but just could find time.

I managed to squeeze in time to do this with my son and he said he wanted to to give this to his teachers for teachers' day.

Materials needed:

• Cardboard (size 20cm x 5cm)
• 2 magnetic strips
• Coloured Paper
• Glue (we used stick glue. It's doesn't curl paper)
• * additional tool used: craft punches

How to do it:

1. Punch out shapes using craft punches.
2. Fold cardboard into half.
3. Spread glue on the folded cardboard.
4. Decorate the cardboard with punched out paper.
5. If your magnetic strips does not come with adhesive tape, use double-sided tape to stick the magnetic strips to both insides of the cardboard.
6. Let the glue dry and you can use it now. Just 'clip' it on a page of a book. No more slipping bookmark. *wink*

Note:

• You can also find a piece of cardboard with nice picture to use as a base, eg. post cards.
• You can also draw on the cardboard instead.

* boy in action *

* the end products *