Quilled Ear Ring for kids

Here are my recent tries in paper quilling.

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Birthday Party

Today is my litttle jyo's birthday. First time i thought i will give a try for making balloon arch using two colors. But it came out well.... :-)

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Natural Food colored Play Dough

I have few plants [table rose] , which are nice pink color.

Thought of taking color from it and prepare play dough...

• Pluck only the petals from flower and boil with little water. see the first picture.
•  Prepared play dough.

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How to make playdough - no cream of tartar, no cooking

All purpose flour - 3/8 cups
Table Salt - 1/8 cup
Water -1/8 cup
Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp
Food colors

 Method:

1.  Add salt, food color, water to bowl and mix well until salt dissolves completely.
2. Then add oil followed by flour.
3. Knead into dough. Sprinkle some flour/ water if needed.
4. Knead it for atleast ten minutes.
5. This measurement is for one color, repeat the same for others also.

 

• First photo is the recent one[ pink color using rose milk essence and brown is cocoa powder]
• Rest others are food colors bought from store.
  

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Butterfly matching Game

Got an idea of Butterfly matching after seeing in this blog.

1. Take print out[preferably color print out] of the butterflies and cut each of them separately and again into two.
2. Paste the left half of all the butterflies in one sheet and laminate it.
   
3. Laminate the right half of the butterflies and cut each one separately. 
4. Hot glue velcro in the back sides of right half of the butterflies.
5. Hot glue velcro in the sheet for attaching the right half.
6. Now its all set ready and its good busy bag idea for kids.                                                                  
   
7. Its time to play!!

        

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Birthday Garland

Following is the garland which i made for friends birthday party.
Materials required:
        Few thick papers
        Scissors
        Sewing machine and essentials
        Ribbon

 

• Cut the color papers into whatever shape you like.
• Sew the ribbon in between for the first and then sew straight stitch by having three colors together in the machine leaving some place in between each one.
• Similarly for the last sew a ribbon in between.
• While hanging fold to their own sides except middle paper to get 3D effect.

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Color matching popsicle sticks

Materials required:

                        Popsicle sticks

                        Fabric paint or water color

                        Sewing needle and matching threads

                        Felt

                                                                                                                                                                 

  

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Coloring

This is the first time my daughter is coloring on top of salt. She started by coloring normally and she saw something comes off in brush. Then she started asking me what is this, and then I told her not to spread the paint, just touch the salt. She did and got very happy by seeing it spreading. Here is the picture after coloring is done.

Materials Needed:

            Thick sheet of paper [chart]

            Glue

            Powdered salt

            Water color, brush and water

Method:

• Take one thick sheet of paper, draw some design and glue on top of it.
• Put some powdered salt on top of glue and remove the excess.Below is the picture of it.

• Salt will get stuck on glue and make it to dry.
• Take water color and brush.
• Dip the brush in water and load the brush with some color and start coloring on it.

• Just touch the salt by the tip of the brush and observe how it spreads.
• Let it dry for sometime and enjoy your work.

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Button Up Snake

This is very simple idea for kids busy bag which makes kids engaged and to learn buttoning. It can be used for kids of age one and half years.   

Materials Needed:

            6 inches of ribbon

            Few colors of felt

            One button

            One small cardboard

            Glue

         

  

1. First cut 2” by 2” felt in all colors and make slit in the center for buttonhole.
2. Sew button in one side of ribbon.
3. Cardboard also has to be in same size as 2” by 2”.
4. Paste the other end of ribbon to center of cardboard.
5. Now it’s ready to play.

 This can also be done by sewing two buttons in each end of ribbon and can be used for color sorting, finding shapes also.

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Lego Bag

Here is the toy bag which can be used for keeping play things.

Materials Needed:

            1Yard of two cotton fabrics [Any fabric]

            1.5 Yard of ribbon for drawstring

            Other sewing supplies

It came pretty well. It can be used as a play mat and also a bag to carry Lego blocks.

This is the bag as the play mat.

This is how when folding...

And finally...

Followed the tutorial from Ribbon Retreat blog.

Get the tutorial!

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