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Help your child keep her spare change ready for a shopping trip with this adorable papier-mache bowl. Line the inside and rim of a small glass bowl with plastic wrap. Have your kids tear up colorful tissue paper and stick the pieces to the inside of the bowl using a simple mixture of white glue and water. After you've added a few layers, let it dry; remove the glass bowl and plastic wrap.
Have your kids spell out "savings" in cute letter stickers. Add a little decoration by punching holes around the rim of the bowl and threading a pretty ribbon through. Give your child an imagination workout with an open-ended activity that blends drawing and cool cutouts. The Setup From a magazine , cut out images -- half of a person or an object such as a piece of fruit, as we show or entire vehicles or buildings -- and glue them to sheets of drawing paper.
Put out colored pencils or markers. The Project Encourage your little artist to complete the half images by adding legs, for instance, or a fish tail, or doors and windows. Suggest drawing a landscape for the cars and buildings. Your child can glue on more images and add a title, if desired. Bonus Fun Cut word balloons and text boxes from white paper. Use them to turn the collage into a comic book-style story.
This project is from Rachelle Doorley, who shares her creativity-sparking ideas on tinkerlab. A Hands-on Guide for Little Inventors. Swish Sticks These fluttery wands call for a backyard parade. Cut 3-foot lengths from several streamer colors, then cut them in half lengthwise. Gather the pieces at one end. Place a drop of glue on the end of a painted dowel , stack the streamers on top, then securely attach them with a thumbtack.
Glue a toy jewel on top of the tack. Trunk Show Dress up a tree or two for your next party. Start by wrapping a streamer around the trunk once and securing it to its end, not the tree, with double-sided tape. Continue wrapping until a few inches are covered, then secure the end with tape. Repeat with more colors. Create 3-D textured artwork with balled-up bits of crepe paper. Cut a rectangle from a cereal box and draw a simple image on the unprinted side. Working on a section at a time, spread tacky glue onto the cardboard, then press the balls in place.
Our spiky-haired pencil topper is a welcome homework helper. Sandwich double-sided tape between the layers. Place tape on the bottom layer and roll the stack around the end of a pencil.
Glue on googly eyes and a paper mouth. Match your lamp shade to your decor, for cheap. Starting at the bottom of a plain shade, simply wrap lengths of streamer around it, securing the ends with double-sided tape. Hang several of these lightweight containers in a geometric pattern for a pretty way to display a child's collection or small desk supplies. Fold up the lower left corner along the line created by the midpoint and the upper left corner, as shown.
Make a matching fold with the lower right corner, creasing then unfolding. Erase the pencil mark. Refold both; abut the two short edges and seal them with patterned washi tape. Attach the pocket to a wall with removable double-sided tape or removable mounting squares placed at the upper corners of the pocket. Customize this cool spacecraft with extra hatches, portholes, side fins, and more. To make one, roll a rectangle of scrapbook paper ours is about 4 by 6 inches into a cylinder, sealing the seam with washi tape.
Cut four 1-inch-long slits into one end of the cylinder, spacing them evenly around the edge. Cut out two mustache-shaped fins A. Fold them at a right angle as shown, and insert them into the slits B. Run glue along the cylinder's top edge and place the cone on top; let glue dry. Glue a rectangle to the rocket's side for a hatch. Make these pretty paper ornaments out of flat paper circles cut and folded in a simply ingenious way.
Cut out this base circle and set it aside. Fold each of these circles in half. Slide the four larger folded circles onto the base B. Then slide the smaller ones inside the larger. To hang the sphere, use a pushpin to poke a hole through the edge of the base, and tie on a string.
Believe it or not, these fantastic animal heads are made from nothing more than cereal boxes, newspaper, flour paste, and paint—a simple project that Los Angeles art teacher Samara Caughey loves doing with her young students because it stretches their creative muscles. To make the creatures at home with your kids:. Iron a few coffee filters to make them flat. An adult's job—iron up to four at a time on the highest setting, no steam. Set them out on a covered surface with lots of paper towels and a few bowls of liquid watercolor paint. You can also make it from cake watercolors: Remove each one and place in a bowl, then add a few drops of water at a time, mixing as you go, until the paint becomes a thin liquid.
Fold the Coffee Filters: Show your child these techniques to start— then encourage her to experiment on her own! Unfold into a half-circle, then use the creases as a guide to accordion-fold the filter along its radius, like a fan, until you get a skinny triangle. Fold one corner of the rounded edge down to meet the opposite long edge, forming a triangle. Then accordion-fold the paper two more times, matching the corners to long edges, to get a small trapezoid. Dip a corner into the paint very quickly. Repeat with other corners, using new colors.
Press the wet filter between two paper towels to squeeze off excess liquid, then gently unfold it and set on a protected surface to dry. Play with other porous materials such as tissue paper, newspaper, or fabric to see how the paint absorbs with each. The Project Have your child decorate the poster-board squares by gluing on cardstock or creating patterns with the art supplies.
Next, help him cut the pieces into smaller organic shapes to make the ones we used, download our template at familyfunmag. Be sure at least two shapes are half-circles—they'll help form a base. Once your child has five or more shapes, he can slide two half-circles together at the slots to form an X, or slot together two to three pieces, rotating them until they stand on their own at least three points should touch the work surface.
From there, he can continue to add more pieces by sliding them together at the slots until he's satisfied with the result. Parents may receive compensation when you click through and purchase from links contained on this website. Jump-start your child's creativity with these simple crafts made from all varieties of colorful paper. Animal templates, corrugated cardboard, craft paint, paintbrush, pipe cleaners, white glue What To Do: Trace templates onto cardboard and cut out. Paint animals; let dry.
You can skip the templates and let the kids create their own! Tie a knot on the neck of the balloon. Cut off the top half.
Cut out the bottom of the cup. Trace the top of the paper cup to make a mouth, and cut out.
Pinterest Emily Kate Roemer. Pinterest Photograph by Alexandra Grablewski. Turn coffee filters into pretty paper glass with this crafty idea from a Nashville art teacher. Use scissors to trim the edge of a coffee filter to create an uneven, organic shape. Make lines, spots, and blobs on the coffee filter with non-permanent markers.
Drape the coffee filter over an upside-down plastic cup or yogurt container. Apply spray starch to the filter until the marker colors bleed together and the coffee filter is completely wet. Let the filter dry. Transform cardboard tubes into cute cottages in just a few simple steps.
Your children can use their imaginations to create mosaic-style landscapes that look picture-perfect as place mats on your dining room table. Set them out on a covered surface with lots of paper towels and a few bowls of liquid watercolor paint. Share the gallery Pinterest Facebook. Explore the Home Gift Guide. Trim around the frame, leaving a few inches to fold over the edges.
Paint the tube and let it dry. Make two angled cuts into one end of the tube to form a point. Use tacky glue to secure it. Make two cuts to create a rectangular door, as shown. Glue on a bead for a doorknob. Draw windows onto colored paper, cut them out, and attach them to the cottage using a glue stick. For a chimney, fold a strip of paper into a four-sided, open-ended box, and glue it to the roof.
Our sleek family of construction paper cats is the purr-fect project for little crafters. These hanging stars may look store-bought, but they're a cinch to cut and fold. Regift a pretty card by turning it into a flower pendant or pin for someone special. At last -- a delicious-looking ice cream cone that won't melt in the summer sun!
Crepe paper streamers make vibrant, cheery crafts. To make the creatures at home with your kids: Start with a regular or mini cereal box. From the bottom, cut halfway up each corner seam with scissors.
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