Recycle Paper Flower Kids can Make for Mother's Day

It is a good idea to make some flowers for your mom on Mother's Day.

But you don't need to buy color papers to do that.

You can recycle useless papers from egg carton, newspaper / old book, coffee filter, cupcake paper, tissue rolls, kitchen tissues and paper plates.

Below are simple but pretty ideas that kids can make.


1. Egg carton

https://www.carefreecrafts.com/make-your-own-egg-carton-tulips/

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

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.

 

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.

 

Chinese New Year Red Packet Show

Chinese New Year has just passed.

We received a lot of red packets.

Chinese usually exchange red packets with money inside in Chinese New Year.

There are different designs of red packets.

I like to take photos for those with special design for future reference.

Below are those collected in this year.

Red packets like to use fish because the pronunciation of fish in Cantonese is the same as that for the pronunciation of surplus.

2013 X'mas Crafts - Gift Wrapping

Besides growing the crystal X'mas, my son and I also did some special gift wrapping at Christmas.

Originally, I wanted to make some ornaments with paper with my son. But he did not want to make them.

Instead, he wanted to wrap the X'mas gifts with special designs.

Thus, we played gift wrapping this Christmas : )


The earliest Christmas party was held at his school. I gave him some color papers and he decided to wrap the gift in two different designs.

One side with stripes,




Another side with dots. It looked funny  : )

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 - DIY Puzzles / Birthday Card / Photo Frame?

My father's birthday is coming soon.

This year, I want to make him some unforgettable thing, instead of buying him a gift.

Time really flies, I note that he is getting old recently.

He forgot something that had happened just two months ago.

I think we must not delay to show him that we love him.

Or, one day, he may forget all of us!

That is not what I want to see, but a thing that may happen soon.

My father will be seventy five years old very soon.

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I looked at the blank puzzles that I had bought for my son, and suddenly had an inspiration.

I decided to make the puzzles a birthday card, as well as a photo frame.

At first, my son and I painted rainbow colors on the puzzles.

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

 

More...... Please click to open

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.

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.

2013 Daddy's Birthday Card

This card was made by my son to his daddy.

Though the hands were too short, I like the pretty colors he had used.

He had learned some new drawing skills from school and applied on this card, too.

They were the 'nets' at the bottom corners.

These made the card more special!

Inside the card, instead of just writing something, he requested to use the scratch card.

He wrote 'Daddy is the best'. This was his idea, not taught by me. : )

He also wrote daddy's year of birth, too. 

Oh! He disclosed his age @@

 

 

 

 

 

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 - DIY Kitchen Tissue flower card

In the last Mother's Day, I made a special card for my mom.

We usually have a great dinner to celebrate Mother's Day with my parents.

But this year, I decided to make a special card.

Because my son had done some experiments about ink colors. I found that his works are quite beautiful. Throwing them away are just wasteful. Thus, I turn them into a special card.

I like it so much! How do you think?

The steps to make this are as follows:

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/