You will need: Low temperature, LED Christmas lights, cocktail umbrellas and small cable ties. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
You might also like:
Mosaic Solar Lights
Solar Fairy House
Flashing Xmas Dress
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Thank you to PC for her clever design!
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14
Jun
2012
Parasol Party Lights
20
Apr
2012
Hot Chocolate Dippers
Try these easy hot chocolate dipping spoons for deliciously gooey treat. Choose your favourite sweet or mini chocolate to place in the chocolate. Pictured below is a Mini Oreo. Scroll down for more ideas.
Spoon a dollop of melted white chocolate onto a teaspoon. Place a small treat into the chocolate and chill to set.
Dip the spoon into milk or dark chocolate, covering half the treat (or all if you prefer). Scrape the bottom of the spoon to remove any excess. Chill to set.
Dip the spoon into a hot drink to make it melty and wonderful.
Teds in Bed: Give a Tiny Teddy and yummy blanket of milk chocolate and sprinkles. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
Marshmallow:
Soft centred jubes:
More of my edible crafts:
Easter Dipping Spoons
Strawberry Stars
Tropical Island Trifle
16
Mar
2012
Easter Baskets
Easter seems to have crept up on me this year. Suddenly I have too many projects and too little time to post them. So here are 2 projects crammed into one. 
The first is a basket made out of a plastic soft drink bottle. An adult will need to assist in this project as it requires some fairly heavy duty cutting and a burning candle flame. I used the flame to heat the petals of the flower basket in order to keep them in place. This isn’t as difficult or dangerous as it sounds! You simply bend back the petal and slowly bring the folded part closer to the flame until it slightly buckles and stays in place. I then covered the basket with tissue paper and PVA, but you could also spray paint it for a faster finish.
Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
The next project is a quick and easy Easter Bunny face that doubles as a treat bag to store your eggs.
To make this bag, you will need 3 x paper plates, ribbon or string, a stapler and items to decorate the face. Click here for full instructions
More of my Easter crafts:
Easter Suncatcher
Easter Foam Eggs
Paper Plate Basket
31
Jan
2012
How to Cover a Book with Contact
Tomorrow my eldest will begin Grade 1. At the end of last year parents were asked to attend a brief meeting with the Year 1 teacher. The meeting went well, until we were all given 5 scrap books each and asked to cover them with contact. A ripple of panic washed over the room. “Don’t worry if you get any bubbles or wrinkles” the teacher kindly said. How can we not worry about bubbles in contact? Isn’t the number of bubbles and wrinkles inversely proportional to how how much my child can learn? Or something like that.
The video below shows my method for covering books. It may not be a terribly crafty post, but I hope it is an informative one. If, like me, you are facing another 10-12 years of covering school books, you might as well get off to a good start.
Apologies to the parents who have already spent tonight wrestling with books and sticky plastic, I really did mean to get this out a week ago….
24
Oct
2011
Butterflies & Baubles
Things are looking decidedly pink at the centre. The month of October 2011 is ‘Pinktober’ for breast cancer awareness. Following Pinktober we will be raising funds for The Centre for Cerebral Palsy. As their poster features pink butterflies, we decided to combine the two themes. For the hanging centrepiece I made a giant pink butterfly from cardboard, cellophane and sequins. I also decorated some plain Christmas baubles to suspend underneath the butterfly. I used garden polypipe to make the frame to hang the objects from. The frame is held together with duct tape and wrapped in light pink crepe paper streamer.
Faber Castell Glass Markers work on glass, plastic and other non-porous surfaces. Simply draw on the surface and, as the ink dries, the colour brightens. Great for small children as they are non-toxic and very easy to use. They also snap together with novelty connector lids – a fact I find less interesting, but one that my children think is ‘awesome’. Local readers: I found these at Kmart, but you could also try arts/craft/stationery stores
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More of my pink crafts:
Peg Butterflies
Party Spoons
Wacky Wigs
09
Oct
2011
Paper Plate Handbags
Paper plates are a staple in any craft kit. The plain cardboard generic brands work best as they are thin and have no plastic coating on them. Hopeless for putting food on but brilliant for drawing, gluing, cutting, stapling and painting. Decorating is purely optional. If you are making this for a boy and wish to ‘man it up’ a little, tie it around their waist for a bum bag. (US readers, I think you call them ‘Fanny Bags’, but we don’t here in Australia – I’ll spare you the explanation. Google it if you’re curious)
Paper Plate Handbags are easy to make, all you need is 2 plates, a stapler and some ribbon or string. Decorating is entirely up to you. The plates pictured below have a coat of acrylic applied first. For a quick and easy project, leave the plates plain then children can decorate the finished bags with stickers, markers, crayons etc.
Click here for full instructions (Simple Bag)
Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
*Much cheaper than the real thing, AND you can barely tell the difference! Although, like the genuine article, try not to get it wet….
More of my paper plate crafts:
Easter Suncatcher
Paper Plate Basket
3D Opera House
04
Sep
2011
Cardboard Chandelier
Here’s how to turn 2 cereal boxes, 1 cardboard roll, 1 soft drink bottle and a few paperclips into:
The instructions for making this chandelier are fairly detailed, but here’s an overview:
- The centre of the chandelier is a kitchen towel cardboard roll.
- The chandelier arms and embellishments are made from cereal box cardboard, painted with black acrylic.
- The teardrop ‘jewels’ dangling from the base are cut from a clear soft drink bottle.
- The chains are linked paperclips.
- I didn’t use any glue or staples in this project. The whole thing is held together with interlocking cuts into the cardboard. The paperclips link together and hang from the chandelier via holes punched into each piece.
- Printable cutting templates are available on the instruction sheets.
- Younger children will find these shapes too difficult to cut, so I have also provided a simpler version of the chandelier template (See the pink chandelier pictured below)
Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
Above: Cardboard Chandelier #2 - Simple(r!) Version
*NB. I am sure this goes without saying, but I will anyway. I do not recommend you try combining this project with real light globes. It is cardboard – it will catch fire – your house will burn down….
More of my cardboard crafts:
Chinese Lantern
Easter Suncatcher
Caterpillar
26
Aug
2011
I love a Discount Shop!
I spend more time in $2/discount shops than I care to admit to. China may be belching out pollution at an astonishing rate, but by golly haven’t they given us a wonderful avalanche of cheap crap to rummage through? Some say these stores are (*gasp!*) full of junk. Not I, oh no, I’d much prefer wandering the aisles of ‘Dynamic Discounts’ than any Cartier or YSL. There’s a $2 dollar shop down the road from me, I’ve been there so many times the couple that own it treat me like their daughter.
This post is dedicated to all the things I’ve made from discount shop discoveries. Like the Sea Glass Lamp above. Technically the little lamp came from Ikea but it was very cheap so I think it counts. The glass stones were $2 a bag. It took 3 bags to cover the lamp. Below are some more of my crafts that began their life on the discount floor.
Paper Plate Baskets
Painted Foam Eggs
Play Kitchen
Wacky Wigs
Sequined Mirror
Mini Party Cups
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29
Jul
2011
Sequined Mirror
This idea was inspired by a mirror I saw on the very wonderful MeiJo’s JOY Blogspot In her design PC glued sequins to cardboard rolls. Here I have tried the same technique but used plastic mini shot cups to glue the sequins to. The mirror is a cheap vanity version I found at the discount shop. Conveniently, it already had double side foam tape on the back to stick it to the wall. Some of the shapes pictured are actually metallic confetti rather than true sewing sequins. Click here for full instructions (Pdf)
The mirror above has glitter glued into the base of the cups.
Thank you to PC for her clever design!
18
Jun
2011
Strawberry Pot
This pot is made by layering sheets of tissue paper and paper mache glue. The type of glue used here is called ‘Mix-a-Paste’, sometimes known as ‘Methyl Cellulose’. It comes in a powdered form from craft stores (eg Jacksons), but I think it is very similar to wallpaper paste. If neither of those options are available, try ordinary paper glue such as Clag or watered down PVA. Methyl Cellulose is a very ecomomical adhesive. A very small amount of powder makes alot of glue when mixed with water. Although it isn’t a strong adhesive, it is perfect for paper projects such as this one.
You will need: red & green tissue, glue, brush, scissors, green pipecleaner and 2 bowls. The bowls I have used are about 11cm in diameter and 7cm in height – but anything close to that size will be fine. Allow 2 days to make this one as the pots need to dry overnight before you can remove them from the bowls.
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