'Ball' Game Made by Small Boxes, Tissue Rolls and Carton Box

My son's school had a special assignment recently.

It required the students to make a toy with recycling materials. Parents could think and teach children how to do at home. But children had to make them at school. This assignment is important because the score will make up 10% of the General Studies exam marks.

Though my son is seven years old now, he cannot make complex crafts tidily. Thus, we have to prepare a toy that is funny and not too complex to make by himself.

Finally, we decided to make this. This was a 'ball' game.

Kids crafts - fruit juice carton robot

My son and I made a robot with fruit juice carton a few months ago.

He played for some time and then forgot it.

My son always like that. Whenever there is new toy, he will play a lot.

But after a short period of time, he will forget it.

Before throwing it away, I want to take a record for it. Because this is quite interesting and complex to make.

This robot is special.  

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.

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 - 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?   

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 - 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/

Paper Craft for Kids - Lock Box

One day, when we had window shopping with our son, he saw a lovely lock.

The lock was a lady bud, so beautiful!

He begged us to buy that for him.

As that was not expensive, we bought it for him.

Now at his age, 6 years old, my son always beg us to buy toys. We may not buy him things every time he begs us.  : )


But after he went home, he had a question.

What could he lock with the lovely lock??

We do not have any drawer that is suitable for that kind of lock.

We thought and thought.

Finally, I told him to empty one of the shoe box he used to store toys, and we made a special 'drawer' with lock ourselves.

He was so excited and happy as he could soon have a place to store confidential things.

We used some cardboard to make the lock.

Here it is! How is it??

Paper Crafts for Kids - Toilet Tissue Roll Crafts (3)

Love to use tissue roll to do crafts with my son.

Below are lovely ideas that I found in Pinterest.

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Paper crafts for Kids - carton box tank

My son is not very interested in decorating Easter eggs.

Instead, we made a tank from carton box.

The upper part of the tank can turn.

Because we have added a tissue roll in the middle to join the upper and bottom parts.

This great idea was given by my son. I like this idea very very much! : )

The tank is quite big. It is about 1.5 feet x 1 foot.

How do you think?

Paper Crafts for Kids - More toilet tissue roll crafts

Here are some more kids craft ideas by using toilet tissue rolls.

These castles are beautiful! Princess may live in it! ^^

Paper Crafts for Kids - Toilet tissue roll crafts

Don't throw away the toilet tissue rolls. They can made your children happy for hours.

See below the crafts ideas that I have collected from Pinterest. They are amazing and lovely!