31st Craft Activity (31st March - 13th April 2016)

Beading is definitely addictive!!!

As this is by far one of the most popular craft at my center, we need to continue to come up with more designs to keep the kids excited, most importantly, to keep all of my instructors (including myself) excited...😜😜😜

Last year, we made lots of coasters, from fruit to flower to princesses to superheroes...

This year, we try something different...

Ta-daa!!! Last year we protect the bottom of the cup, this year, we protect the top of the cup...😜😜😜 YEA!!! We HAVE to make it in donut form...

Hungry for donuts? 😜😜😜

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

13th Week of Craft Activities (26th April 2015)

We had fun with Perler Beads this week...

Here's what we made & taught...

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?