Pencil Eraser Stamp and Blank Puzzles

Previously, I saw a craft using punched colorful paper to make a heart. That is so pretty!

 

I tried to make one myself.

 

But I did not use color paper. Instead, I used eraser stamps.

 

I chose to stamp on a blank puzzles, so I can write greeting or secret message on it and let the recipient to put the puzzles together and see the greeting / message.

 

That must by funny and mysterious!

 

 

 

Below are the steps of my work:

1. Use computer to print a heart and cut it out.

2. Use Blu-tack to stick it onto the puzzles. Put very small Blu-tack around the edge of the heart, or you cannot stamp a perfect heart shape.

3. Dip some color on pencil eraser and stamp randomly on the puzzles. I used acrylic color this time.


Tips:

a. Remember to stamp more around the heart, so as to make a perfect heart shape!

b. Try to use different pencil erasers for different colors. Or, you have to wash away the color completely before changing to another color.

c. Make sure one color is dried completely before doing another color.


You can do the same by using fabric colors on tshirt and canvas bags. That is so pretty!

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Blank puzzles are available in my shops:
https://www.etsy.com/hk-en/shop/ShineKidsCrafts?section_id=13560804&ref=shopsection_leftnav_3

8 Easy-to-get Materials to Make Sheep / Lamb - Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is just passed. This year is the Year of Sheep.

Taking this chance, introduce some sheep crafts using Easy-to-get Materials.


1. Stone

http://www.duitang.com/people/mblog/75489092/detail/

Photos Instructions on Making a DIY Greeting Card with Blank Puzzles

Last time when I made the puzzles greeting card, I forgot to take photos steps by steps.

To go to last time posting:
http://shinekidscrafts.blogspot.hk/2014/10/make-diy-greeting-card-with-blank.html#more


Recently, a customer made a custom order. I took photos this time. Thus, you can understand how to make it easier.



First, I put a heart shape paper to cover the central part of the puzzles.

Make a DIY Greeting Card with Blank Puzzles

How did / will you use the blank jigsaw puzzles?

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Below is my experience on using blank puzzles to make greeting cards.

I don't like to buy greeting cards from shops because they are so common.

I prefer to make them by myself.

Last time, I put a photo on the supporting board, drew and signed the puzzles as a birthday card to my Dad. He likes that so much!

http://shinekidscrafts.blogspot.hk/2013/11/kids-crafts-diy-puzzles-birthday-card.html#more


Thanksgiving Day is coming. This time I would like to show my love to my mommy.

This time, I put a heart shape paper to cover the central part of the puzzles first.

Then I used foam to make heart stamps in different sizes.

After stamping the hearts randomly on the puzzles, I took away the heart shape paper. There was a big white heart with tidy edge.  I wrote some words inside the white heart.

 

Giveaway 2014 (1) - Paper Plane

New school year has just been started for my son. I can have more free time again.

To celebrate this, a free gift is for you.

This is a paper scale model. You can use it to fold an airplane which is one of the famous world aircraft.

You do not need to cut, glue or paint. You just need to fold. Thus, children can play that too.

The finishing size of the plane is 11 cm in length, 12 cm for the width of the wings.

Below are the pictures of the finishing product.

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Paper crafts - stained glass windows

Recently, my son had a special homework.

The school requested students to prepare a book report on a window. The window could be decorated with any material we like.

This was a funny homework.

My son and I immediately thought about the church's stained glass window.

But how to make this??

We had played stained glass colors recently. (http://shinekidscrafts.blogspot.hk/2014/01/glass-decor-color-project-photo-frame.html)

But if we used them on the window would not be pretty cos glass colors need light to make them beautiful!

I remembered we still had some glass paper which was left after making lantern in the Kindergarten. (That is already a few years ago, lol!)

Thus, we finally decided to use color and black papers to make the window frame and then put the glass paper at the back to make it more beautiful.



At the beginning, we used some second-hand paper to practice.

We folded the square paper half and half into eight sections / triangles.

We used pencil to draw patterns.

After cutting, we unfolded the paper to see if the pattern was pretty.

Below is the our work.

The window could be opened in the middle.

The text was written inside the window.

 

Kids Crafts - Cardboard Maze

I saw some interesting booth games in a party.

I think they can be made easily at home for the kids too.

Like this, it is a maze made with cardboard and Styrofoam.

Kids can play in pairs or one by one.

What they need to do is to roll a table tennis ball from the start to the end point in a maze.

The maze is easy to make.

First find a big Styrofoam or cardboard as the bottom.

Design the maze on the board. Then use cardboards to make the walls of the maze.

To add challenges, you can add some slopes or obstacles in the maze like this one.

At the right bottom corner, two ways were made with slope.

And there were some obstacles in the middle of some of the way.

It was quite difficult to make the ball pass through these ways easily.


You don't need to buy any material for making this.

You can save cardboards / styrofoam from food or toy packages.


If you don't want to make a big one, you can use Lego to make a small one and then use marble to play with it.

Children must have a great fun with this simple and cheap game, lol!

Kids Crafts - Chinese New Year / Horse Year Crafts

Hi,

Today is Chinese New Year! If you are a Chinese, Happy New Year!!

I would like to wrap up ideas on making horse with eight different materials. Hope you like them!


Funny horses made with corks
(source: http://www.familyholiday.net/year-of-the-horse-2014-chinese-new-year-crafts)

2013 X'mas Kids Crafts - Paper Special Ornaments

Paper craft is my favorite. Different kinds of paper can make pretty X'mas ornaments.

Below are round up of some special ideas:

Ornaments made by color papers

source: http://goodiy.blogspot.ro/2013/11/diy-paper-christmas-trees.html

source: Ing-things.BlogSpot.com

Kids Crafts - Halloween

Last Sunday, we held a small Halloween Party at home.

We had invited a few friends to our party.

Only a few friends could join because now is the testing or examination period, most of the children need to study at home.

My son is having tests too. But I want him to relax, instead of just study and study.


Before the party, my son and I decorated the house.

I had seen a photo from the web that some people decorated their house doors with funny faces.

This gave me inspirations. I decided to decorate the fridge and piano with funny faces.

We used colored papers, old magazines and paper plates to make them.

Then, stick them with blu-Tack, so that no mess!

How do you think??

Paper crafts - Blank Puzzles / Jigsaw

I saw some blank puzzles in a shop.

I decide to buy for my son.

This really inspires creativity.

My son can draw anything on it as he likes, and then play with it.

If he doesn't want to play it, it can be hanged as a home décor.


Or, he can draw something and then send it to grandparents as gift in Thanksgiving day!

What a great idea!

For more blank puzzles and paper crafts, you can go to my shop:
https://www.etsy.com/hk-en/shop/ShineKidsCrafts?section_id=13282944

Paper crafts - 2013 Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Show

Besides the plastic bottles big 'lantern' or dome, there were a lot of traditional lanterns displayed in the lantern show.

They were made by bamboo sticks and papers. I think that must be very difficult to make.

At least, that requires a lot of patience to bend the sticks to the shapes that you want and stick the papers to the sticks afterward.

Animal lanterns: deer

 

 

lion, cow

 

 

lovely polar bear

 

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Paper Crafts - Mid Autumn Festival lantern (1)

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

We will play lantern with my son's little friends tonight.

When my son was 3 years old, studying in Kindergarten, we joined the school lantern design competition.

We made the lantern together.

We used a toy box to make a bus lattern.

On one side, I cut two rows of window. The windows were transparent and thus we can see the light inside.

A house for plushy toys

I have some plushy toys bought years ago.

But avoiding them to become dirty, I seldom display them.

Instead, I put them in plastic bags and put into the kitchen cabinets.

One day, when I cleaned the cabinets, I discovered them.

I let my son have a look of them.

Out of my surprise, he likes them so much and asked me to let him play them. (Oh! He is a boy, not a girl. Is that strange??)

Of course, it is OK. Thus I took him out of plastic bags again.


One of them is a small black cat which my boyfriend (now is my husband) bought at Australia many years ago when we studied there.

My son likes that most.

But with limited space, how to store them properly?? He already has a lot of toys.

Looking at the carton boxes that we kept for crafts, I had an idea.

I used a big box, previously used for storing car toys, to make a big house for them.

This box is great as the front part is made with transparent plastic.

By making it into a house, the transparent plastic is just like windows which allows us to see inside.

I made it into 3-storey. Each storey has its door.

Each door has a lock made by rubber band and a thumbtack.

My son likes this house very much.

And of course, I like it too. Because it can help to keep the plushy toys tidy, lol!

Sometimes, saving old toy boxes may be useful not just for crafts, but also for making the place tidy.
Do you agree?   

Colored Sand Picture with Frame

Today, I did a special craft with my son.

That was the colored sand picture.

Making sand picture can be a mess. But I bought a kit with self adhesive cardboard, which could allow sand picture making easy and tidy.

Below is our work. The inspiration was from our camping recently.

Paper Crafts - Paper Bag Puppets Round Up (1)

I like to do paper crafts with my son.

We use carton box to make tank or other things.

We love paper folding, scratch paper drawing, etc.

Recently, I discover paper bag crafts.

I think my son must want to try this, too.

To give my son some ideas on what to do with paper bag, I have summarized some ideas on my Pinterest.

Share some with you here! : )


Most people like to make animals with paper bags.

Lovely black cat and other animals! : )

 

 

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Paper Crafts - Own Design Mini Doll Room

When I found this paper craft kit, I like it so much.

Because the kit allows the kids to build a small room and furnitures with white cardboard and decorate it by themselves.

I bought it to my son without much considerations.

Recently, we spent a few days to make it.

Paper crafts - scratch paper birthday card to my son

My son's birthday has just passed.

Time flies. He is seven years old now.

This year, my son said that he wanted to receive a birthday card from us.

Oh! That was a great idea. I had never sent him a birthday card though there were birthday gifts and cakes for him every year.

So I tried to think what birthday card should I give to my son.

I never thought of buying one from shop though they might be more beautiful.

I wanted to make one solely for him.

Finally, I decided to use scratch paper to make a special card for him.

I found a cake picture in computer from free coloring pages.

I used wooden pen to draw it on the scratch paper.

Then I sticked it to a bright yellow card.

When he first saw the card, he opened his eyes wide and said that is so beautiful.

I love you my son, I will keep this card properly.

And in the coming years, I will make cards for you, too.

Paper Crafts - Paper Flowers ideas for Mother's Day

Mother's Day is coming.

 

Why not making some flowers for your mothers?

 

Here are some pretty flowers I got from Pinterest for sharing with you.

 

For more paper flowers ideas, please go to my Pinterest:

 

http://pinterest.com/shinekidscrafts/kids-crafts-crafts-for-kids/

 

 

 

source: http://ideas.koyalwholesale.com/2012/05/diy-ideas-top-10-mother%E2%80%99s-day-flower-ideas/

 

Paper Crafts - Slippers / Flip Flop

This project is done by my son.

This is a Math homework, but not the Visual Arts homework.

Because they are learning shapes.

The slippers are made of cardboard (for the bottom), and color papers for the other parts.

I think this crafts is quite good for kids.

But if we can find some slippers that can be designed by kids and more durable, it is much better!


The one at the bottom is a cat and the one on top is a dog. ^^

They are so lovely!

 

 

For more paper craft ideas, please go to:

https://www.pinterest.com/shinekidscrafts/kids-crafts-paper-crafts/