You can make play dough with the recipe at Play dough.
Now get a glass jar and cover it with brown play dough. Then you can
add yellow, red, or orange play dough to make lava. And you can add green at the bottom to look like grass.Hint: use food coloring to color the play dough. Once you have made the volcano, you can use vinegar and baking soda and "THERE SHE BLOWS!!" Put the baking soda in the volcano first and then the vinegar.
A few months ago I read an article online about an illustrator who uses Sculpey clay to make her pictures. She uses a food processor to grind the clay into bits that are like Nerds.
If you have a canvas, then get a small one and stick the clay bits on top to make a picture. I didn't have a canvas, so I just bunched all the bits into a shape to make a coral reef.
This is already ground up Sculpey clay. I asked my mom if I could use the food processor, and she immediately ran over and said, "Let me do it." Don't worry. The clay won't ruin the food processor; it's easy to wash the clay off.
This is the coral reef that I made. It's already been baked at this point.
This is the other side of my coral reef 3D clay sculpture.
If you want to make the wedding cake and you don't have a lot of white., you can use a color you don't care about for the base and then use a little bit of white and cover it up!! Or you could make a blue or red cake; you decide!! and then add extras!!
The pizza is easy! Get a crust color and smooth it into a circle. Then put down red for sauce or yellow for cheese. Then curve the sides of the base to make it look like a pizza. Add other toppings to make it look tasty.
The hot dog is even easier. Get the color you want your hot dog to be. Roll it into a tube shape. Put the bread around it. Add katsup or mustard or both.
The hamburger is just layers. Brown for the bread, red for the tomato, green for the lettuce, and yellow for the cheese.
To make a cinnamon roll, make two long skinny tubes from two different colors of brown. Put them together and roll them up. For the pancakes, make at least three balls of light brown. Flatten them into thin circles. Stack them up. Add syrup and butter. Yummy. That tastes good. But now my teeth are broken because I ate hard Sculpey clay.
When we buy juice, it comes in a box. So first choose a color to represent your juice. Make a box like form and then make a picture of the fruit. Flatten it a bit on top of the box.
This is spaghetti. Make a plate of any color. And make long tubes of light yellow for the pasta. curl it around into a coil on the plate. Then add a red disc for the sauce. Then I think you should know how to make the meatballs.
We bake them at 145 degrees C. And if you take them out of the oven and they are still sort of soft, don't worry they get hard when the cool.
Today I'm going to show you how to make a shadow puppet theater. First you'll need a cereal box, some good medium thickness cardboard, paper, and skewers or popsicle sticks or straws.
Cut out a screen sized rectangle from both sides of your cereal box. It is helpful to draw the pattern before cutting out the hole. I drew my holes about one inch from the edges of the box. Then I used a utility knife to cut away the holes. (Kids can use utility knives! But just be careful.)
Then get a very thin piece of paper and cover the hole on one side. I used tape to hold the paper on.
To make the puppets, use the cardboard that you cut away. Draw outlines of your puppets and cut them out. I colored them black so they would show up better. Don't try to make too many details because it's very hard to cut out. Just make a basic shape. Unless you're using a very big cereal box, you may want to make your sticks short. My sticks were a little long to fit into the box. Attach the sticks to the backs of the puppets with tape.
You need a lamp which is less tiring to your arms than a flashlight. Put your puppet theater on your bed and shine the lamp onto the puppet stage. You sit on the lamp side, off to the side, not blocking the lamp's light. The audience sits on the other side of the puppet theater.
I made another lens
here is the
link: Ducklings .
It has a poem ,some toys, books, pictures, all about ducks!
If you are a duck lover, you need to
see it !!
This is a craft to make a paper chain Christmas tree. First you need long strips of paper. I used one inch by ten inches. My finished product was big enough to make a poster, so if you want to make a small Christmas tree, use smaller strips. Any kind of paper would be fine, but scraps of Christmas wrapping paper would be good.
Fold the strip in half.
Unfold the strip and then fold the ends into the middle. This is called a shutterfold (like a lapbook). Then fold the shutterfold in half like a small book. Make at least ten of these.
Then you'll notice that there are two holes or loop in each strip. Put the loops of one piece through the loops of another and pull it all the way.
Then you'll have a chain made from two strips. This can be the top of your Christmas tree. Then you can make a chain of three strips, then five, then six, etc.
To make the chain longer, keep linking on more "books," making a zigzag shape.
Then you can glue the paper chains on a piece of paper, making them look like a Christmas tree. I put a star on top, but you can do what you like.
I was studying Indians -- Northwest Indians -- and learned that they make totem poles. So my mom and I researched totem poles. We found some interesting craft ideas, and then I thought of this one. First find a tube of any size and wrap it with brown paper. (But you can choose your own color because I'm sure that Indians painted the pole many colors.)
Then draw faces or use this template for your totem pole's decorations. Normally the hawk/thunderbird/eagle comes at the top. Other animals you can use are seal, bear, frog, and whale.
Fact: if a figure on a totem pole has its tongue sticking out, it represents power. And if its lips are pursed it means he is a flesh eater, coaxing you to its lair to eat you.
Then cut the shapes out. I recommend tape for sticking them on the pole, but you can do as you like.
And there you have your totem pole. I have (top to bottom) a thunderbird, a seal, and a made up creature. Hope you enjoy this craft!
This craft is easy! All you have to do is get some craft sticks and markers. (HINT use permanent markers.) Draw clothes, eyes, hair, and faces on your sticks.
You can write their names on the back.
You can use them as bookmarks. Or you can use them for dolls or puppets.
This week I looked at my Sculpey clay and realized that I had a whole bunch. I wanted to make something, but I didn't know what. I asked my mom if she could find some instructions for making Sculpey critters. She found this good website, but it didn't have many animals on it. Then something caught my eye; a nativity. I immediately ran back to my room and started sculpting.
This is the whole nativty.
Tips for how to make your animals--
Ears are very fragile. As you can see, my donkey's ear is broken. So when you make the ear, make it as thick as you can.
The shepherd gave me trouble. I had to redo his face about three times. But don't give up because you will get it right eventually. For the sheep, I only made horns because making the ears made me so frustrated. I should've followed my own tip -- keep trying.
Jesus was kind of tricky because I didn't know how to make the straw in his bed. First I tried a flat yellow oval in the manger. It did not work. It looked like a blanket, not straw. So I made little balls and flattened them for straw.
Overall I thought my nativty was pretty good. Have you ever made a nativity? If you have, please comment. I'd love to use your ideas.
I wanted to make my own Guess Who game because there were not enough girls in the game. This is how I did it.
First, I measured how big the cards inside the rack were. And then I made gridlines that same size on a piece of paper. Then I drew 24 faces inside my grid. I also wrote a name for each face. My mom scanned my pictures and printed out three color copies on cardstock. One was for the red game rack, one was for the blue game rack, and one set was for picking up the cards. We cut apart the squares and put them inside the game racks.
Tips -- Don't let there be a single person with a unique characteristic. For example, at first Brandon was bald. Then I realized there was no other bald person. So I quickly grabbed the black marker and gave him hair. But then I realized that he actually had a brown beard!
Tip -- Be sure to color clearly and dark so that the scanner can pick up everything. For example, Lily's red lips did not show up.
This pet shop diorama was very tricky to make because I needed a lot of toothpaste boxes (and one mooncake box). I had to do these things to the boxes in order to make animals:
cut the ends of the boxes
cover them with paper
color the paper
attach pieces together (like the head for example).
I cut up rafia to make the hamster's bedding.
The cat the hardest because I ran out of toothpaste box ends. I had to make my own shapes. That was not easy. I used a piece from the middle of the box and then used another piece of cardboard to cover up the open end. I first tried glue, but that did not work. Then I tried tape, and THAT worked.
I had another idea to make a turtle, but I totally ran out of boxes. So I decided to do that when I had more boxes.
This craft is fun and simple. And in the end, you can put the fish in a diorama or make a background or something else. I chose to make a background.
Watch this video and the second one to figure out how to do it. Don't worry. My video is simple. A special thanks to Emily. She is the one who sent me the tissue paper and gave me the link for this craft.
I had a kitten named Tildy. (She is the one in the picture.) Then I bought another white kitten named Louie. Louie got sick with feline leukemia. He was vomiting and having seizures, so we had to put him to sleep.
When Tildy started eating less and being less playful, I was afraid she caught the disease from Louie. Then she started to have seizures too. So we put her to sleep too.
I was very sad and it took me a while to get over it.
The vet who put my two kittens to sleep called my dad and said, "I have a free kitten for you." I was expecting a four month old kitten. But I had a big surprise in store for me. It was not even two weeks old! The vet said that she was found in an apartment complex with no mother cat. So he took her in and decided to find a home for her. Then he remembered us.
I was thinking, "This cat is too small. It will die without its mother!" It kept on meowing. When I picked it up, it stopped. So I felt that this was my kitty! We have been nursing her with a bottle. I hope when she grows up she is loyal because I gave her a lot of special treatment.
I went to Hong Kong Disney and decided to make a scrapbook. So I got out all my supplies and started.
Here are some of my finished pages. Stitch is my all time favorite as you can see because I wrote it.
Ariel is my favorite Disney princess. But she's not at Hong Kong Disney. She is on a float in the parade, but you can't get your picture with her or meet her.
Lillian is my Build a Bear. She wanted to have a blog, but I told her she couldn't. She asked me over and over, but I still told her no. Finally she asked if she could post on my blog. I said, "Okay, but just once." But I think I might let her do it a couple of times. What do you think? Should Lillian write more posts? Or should she only have this one chance?
Hi, everybody! I'm going to teach you how to make a necklace even though most of you already know. But before that, I want to show you what happens when you put your nose into a bag of ribbon.
Sprite went to a ribbon store and I found her bag of ribbon. I thought it was interesting, so I started nosing through it.
And then I "accidentally" fell into the ribbon bag. Oops!
As you can see, it wasn't a very pretty sight when I came back up! Well, I think it actually was pretty ribbon but all the tangles were not pretty.
And then I fell over. And that was a real mess!
Now for the necklace craft! First of all, you will need thread. You can use any kind -- stretchy or not stretchy, colored or clear. You need sharp scissors as well.
These are the kinds Sprite bought, so I used them.
I found a really awesome bead, and I threaded it onto the stretchy thread.
I couldn't decide whether I wanted another heart bead or a pink oval bead.
Once you get all the beads on like you like them, you have to tie a knot. I had to have Sprite help me because I don't have very many fingers.
I am being arrested by a necklace. Ha ha ha. Oh my, I think this necklace is little too tight.
Ahh.... lots better. It makes a perfect tiara!
This is my sister Snowy. She likes crafts. I taught her how to make the necklace just like I taught you. Gotta go now, Sprite just came home from the yarn shop. I think I see a bag left alone.
My mom and I went to Spotlight, a huge craft store. We found lots of things there. I found some Sculpey clay molds and some colored clay. Mom said I could choose five colors and one mold. But I decided I would need six colors to make the family. So my mom said, "Okay, one more. But no more after that."
The girl in this picture was a tricky one. I had to try to make her twice until I could make her this good. I learned the secret while I made the boy. You have to put the mold with the clay in it into the freezer for one minute and then the clay will come out easier.
The mom's feet are kind of deformed because the shoes are too big. The dad was probably the easiest because I didn't have to use too many colors for him.
I baked them and thank goodness Mommy didn't burn them. Last time I tried to make a little girl, Mommy accidentally burned it and it looked like a demon doll. Mommy says it does not, but I says it does too. I probably will put these dolls on my desk and show them to my friends instead of playing with them.
My mom, her friend, and I went to a craft market. And we bought a whole lot of ribbon. There were all types of ribbon. My favorite kinds were the rainbow and the pink.
Here is a picture of all the ribbon we bought. We will use some of this for a Disney scrapbook. Later I will post pictures of the scrapbook.
At the market, there were also beads and buttons. We bought two grab bags of beads. Inside we found all sorts of beads. We found a very very big, clear bead that was in the shape of an elephant.
There were also sequins and feathers. We could not find a grab bag of feathers, so we bought a few bags.
All these supplies mean more crafts for you to learn. So stay tuned!
I was playing with some blank business cards and designed these pretend business cards.
For this craft you will need:
blank business cards (or cardstock cut to size)
adhesive foam squares (or tape loops)
colored scrap paper
scissors
markers
stickers or rubber stamps
Step One
Write your imaginary business name and phone number on the card.
Step Two
Cut out shapes that represent your business. (For a bakery, you can cut out loaves of bread. For a dog kennel, you can cut out a dog's head.) Make 2-3 layers of each shape so you can make the card look 3-D. If you want to, you can make the bottom shape a little bit bigger. Or you can make them all the same. But try to make them all about the same size or else it will look wacky.
Step Three
Layer the shapes with the adhesive foam. For example, one flower, one square of adhesive foam, a flower, a piece of adhesive foam, etc. Use another piece of adhesive foam to stick your 3D shapes onto the business card.
Step Four
You can decorate your business card with stickers, rubber stamps, glitter.
This is craft is good for playing shopping with your friends.
