34th Craft activity (16th - 30th May 2016)

For this week, we taught kids how to make a notebook based on their creativity.

We let the kids expand their creativity on the notebook...

They can have it in drawing, by hand...

Or have it in any foam character of their choice...or...make it with their favorite Perler Beads cartoon character!

23rd Week of Craft Activity (26th July 2015)

This week, we showcase our wall decals & let the kids explore in terms of their preferred color.

We made a pair: an adult & a baby...

I love the owl, the dinosaur & the elephant the best! Which one is your favorite?

New Craft Skill 2: The Beginning

As Q2 begins, I have been researching hard what to learn & hopefully master it...

After about a week of deep research, i have decided to give this a try...

In the European countries, this had gained some popularity over the few months. I'm sure this craft has been around for a while but not as popular...

Since it is new, I can't really get alot of instruction how to make it, I have only photos of the finished products to refer to...but that is good enough as this is a pretty easy craft, once you have mastered the basics...

Here it is! Perler Beads! Perler beads (as known as Hama beads or Nabbi beads) are plastic fusible beads. These colorful beads are usually arranged on plastic pegboards to form patterns and then fused together with a clothes iron. They can also be strung into necklaces, woven into keychains, or even assembled into three-dimensional decors.

Crafting Perler beads is a fun and inexpensive art form that inspires creativity. It can also help young children develop hand-eye coordination skills and learn color names and basic counting. Most impartantly, it teaches kids to be patient & concentrate. One small mistake may require you to re-do the whole thing!

Well, at first, I was afraid to pick up this craft as I was sure if the kids can actually have the patience & focus to complete the designs that they love, but I soon realised that if the kids love the design, they will definitely able to really complete it!

Here is what I first experimented, with the help of some photos...

Then, I started to experiment with more designs...

Ok, this craft is extremely addictive! You will see why I said so...LOL

7th & 8th Week of Craft Activities (15th & 22nd Mar 2015)

This is the 7th & 8th week that we are conducting our craft activities at The School, Jaya One.

Here's the crafts that we made on 15th & 22nd Mar 2015.

Rainbow Loom Bag Tags/Bag Charms/Keychains

Here's the many more displays for all to choose from:

On top of that, we also have options for those who don't fancy Rainbow Loom...WINDMILL!!! Many smaller kids love this! LOL

6th Week of Craft Activities (1st Mar 2015)

Here's what we made on 1st March 2015...

This is called Kirigami. It is a type of Origami, only this is more complicated as it not only involved folding, it also involve cutting the folded paper.

Kirigami craft is made popular in Japan & China. It involves high level of concentration, focus & precision. One wrong fold or cut could destroy your whole masterpiece.

Of course, what we teach is very basic Kirigami. I personally felt that this craft is extremely difficult. So my hubby actually conducted this class since he claimed that Engineers are made to be precise!

OK, I must admit, this craft is not really appealing to the kids, but more to the adults. Parents were impressed but their kids don't...lol sometimes you can't really satisfy both world, so when adult asked whether they can learn too, we said YES & they became the KIDDO of the day...for that particular time that they sit & did the craft, of course...

Here's the designs that we have made on this day:

The simpler ones:

Simplest of the lot, only 1 folding...

Tyese looked simple but not really as the art is in the folding part. It has to be same size then you will get the correct cut out...

My favourite...Yea, it's Lego...lol

These are the harder ones, it needs 5 points fold...

Cool huh?

Bears friends forever!

Who wouldn't love a bear?

It started off with the bears I made for my eldest son, Constantine's friends as a graduation present (you may refer my post in year 2012). Then Christopher, my younger son wanted an Orange bear, so I made him 1. And then Constantine wanted a green bear of a bigger size. Seeing his brother got a bigger bear, Christopher wants another Orange bear of the same big size as the brother's.

After I completed the green bear & the orange bear, I started to crochet 2 bears for my girl, Annabelle (latest addition to the family). I chose Purple & Maroon. I also added bells in the bears.

Seeing the little sister got 2 bears, the boys also wanted 2 bears each. So, I have to make a brown bear for Constantine & blue bear for Christopher.

Then I continued to make 1 red bear & 1 peach bear for my cousins' daughter. 

So now, I have a group of bears in the house...each of them is about 13cm tall...

The bears are also available on FB fan page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Designed-With-Passion/172538912806601.

Don't you just love'em?