Our First Mosaics Projects

This summer holiday, we went to a resort.

There are some art classes in the resort, such as clay, shoe / tshirt / cap design, pottery, bottle drawing classes.

We attended a few of them. The class that I liked most is the mosaics class.

This was the first time my son and I did the mosaics projects. We felt so exciting!


In the class, we were given a wood photo frame as the foundation to adhere the tiles on.

There were so many pretty tiles for our choice. Some of them were complete and more of them were in pieces.

If we wanted to cut our shapes, we can use a cutting tool.

Rainbow Popsicle Sticks Pen-holder

I bought a pack of colorful popsicle sticks for my son long time ago.

These sticks are special as they have 'teeth' for building up easily.

I planned to build a small house with my son. But my son did not want that and the pack of sticks was put idle for a long time.

Recently, my son saw the pack again and told me he wanted to make a pen-holder with them.

Oh! What a good idea!

We decided to make a rainbow color pen-holder.

But after finishing it, we discovered that it was too big. Some shorter pencil and pen would lie horizontally under the pen-holder.

Also, we found that it was quite difficult to stick the bottom with a cardboard.

We had to think some way to make some vertical layers and to stick the bottom cardboard tightly.

Finally, we used a few colorful strings to solve the above problems. With strings, vertical layers can be made and they prevent the bottom from falling off.

Also, coloring strings are pretty and creative! We love it so much. How do you think?

DIY Minecraft Lego Fridge Magnet Clock

Recently, I found magnet sheet which could be printed in ink-jet printer in a craft shop.

 I bought one to try with my son.

My son likes Minecraft very much recently. He wants to make some Minecraft figures magnets.

We tried to print the figures with the magnet sheet.

But it was failed. I guess it was because our printer does not accept the thickness of the magnet sheet.

But this doesn't matter because the magnet sheet allows us to draw on it too.

However, I chose to print Minecraft figures instead of drawing them because it was difficult to draw the pixels by hand.

We found some Minecraft figures by Google search and then printed them out by color printer.

Then we sticked them onto the magnet sheet and cut accordingly.

The effect is quite good.

My son likes that very much. He always play with the magnet figures.

Glass Decor Color Project - Photo Frame

I like the stained glass / windows in church so much. When sun shines on them, they are so colorful and pretty.

I always think that it is so good if I can make one by myself.

One day, when I walked around a craft shop, I discovered that there was glass décor color for making stained glass.

This one is special because you can draw your own picture on a plastic sheet, let it dry completely and then peel off your work and stick it on glass, mirror or tiles.

As I was afraid that my work could not be peeled off successfully, I also bought a photo frame too.

 

I  filled in colors on the photo frame with my son. That is so funny and the final work really looks good!

Summer Home Decor made with kid

My son and I made a simple but beautiful home décor.

I think this is fresh to put it at home at hot summer.

Do you agree?

I did not want to spend any money to buy anything to make the décor.

Thus, I tried to find the materials from my kitchen cabinet.

Luckily, I found some blue plastic stones, which was previously used for decorating a vase for a water plant.

I also found a jar, which was previously used for feeding a small fish.

For the boat, we first tried to use Lego to build it. Because I think that should be funny if we can put a Lego man on the Lego boat.

However, it sank though we had changed a few styles of building methods.

Thus, finally we used a small piece of foam, a toothpick and a color paper.

The foam does not absorb water, or it will sink.

I think that is quite good and looks fresh in hot summer! We like it and put in in the dinning room now.

 

It looks good to be put together with the sand picture that we made. (please go to previous post for the sand picture making process.)

 

If you do not have the color plastic stones, you can put some sand on the bottom.

 

Then put some water and add some color for food. Do not use poster color or water color. As I tried, though the water could be made colorful, it was not clear.

 

After that, put some baby oil. As baby oil is lighter than water, it will float on top layer.

 

Then make a small boat or something that can float on top of the baby oil. That is beautiful, too.

 

We made by this method once. But as we did not have color for food and sand, the final work is not so beautiful. 

 

For more home décor for kids, please go to my Pinterest.

http://pinterest.com/shinekidscrafts/home-decor-for-kids/

Slide and Stairs Build Together

This is really amazing and creative idea!

I want to keep a record in my blog!

If we have this in our house, I think my son will not play other toys.

He will go up stairs and slide down many many times.

This can surely encourage children to do exercise! lol

 

http://pinterest.com/shinekidscrafts/home-decor-for-kids/

Creative and beautiful bathroom

I like every thing related to arts and crafts.

I saw this pretty and amazing bathroom in the web.

That is so.... beautiful! Amazing @@!!

I think I must have bath here for hours and do not want to go out! : )


I myself like pretty home decor very much.

Thus, I open one more category 'Home decor' to make records for amazing home decor.