Summer vacation crafts!

Our First edible craft - bread as base , nutella for skin colour , fruit loops for eyes , corn flakes for hair,ears from bingo and sauce for smile :)
Aryan did not feel like eating it later and so I had the sinful stuff :D


His school bus , we later wrote the name of school as well !


Busy painting the paster of paris cars from a "Mould and Paint" craft kit.
P.S : Do ignore the choclate wrapper and the foot of a pregnant female who has troubles sitting on floor :D


Ready cars !


And the landscape !


Here is what we made the next day from the empty "Mould and Paint" card board box ! And it was gifted to Papa for his news paper :)

Summer vacation crafts

I wanted to do lots of activities with Aryan, this summer but did not have enough strength and stamina. Here is little we did :

Paper Plate Lion :


Egg Carton Tulips


They found a place in our showcase :


Some more coming soon !

Making greeting cards

In our winter vacations (yeah ..winter, not summer) we made lots of greeting cards for the entire family and sent them to all for birthdays and new year.

Lazy Mumma forgot to post pics then ..better late than never !

And we get crafty again!

Holidays means fun and crafts and paintings..so we made the following :

Caterpillar ..though it doesnot look like one and I could not find anything to make tentacles

Lady bug puppet - which hardly looks like lady bug though ..but it was 100% painted by the prince and so I have no complaints.

Paper Mache Musical Maracas - for Shruti ! Only because of her I tried hands on this.

An old ice cream container used as the base.
I have put some channa in it for the sound.
The handle is of rolled paper.
The ready structure was then dipped in paper mache paste.
And we then rolled it over on pieces of news paper.
Finally it was dipped again in paper mache paste.
We finally had a colourful Musical Maracas.

I wanted to make 2 but Aryan lost patience and so the other one was left like that.

Idea courtsey : google bhaiya as always. I cannot get so innovative myself :D

Holidays have started ..The Proof

We did first of the kinds ..plaster of paris crafts. These fridge magnets were painted by Aryan all by himself :-)

And I am sure you can see the other camera in the pic , thats him clicking his creations :)

More crafts from January

We really had some kind of craft fever last month , here are some more proofs to that :

On 12th Jan 2010
Oil Pastel Resist

Idea from Sheela and Shruti
Aryan painted the water with a brush and then we finger painted the fishes !

Idea from here again


On 15th Jan 2010
Tissue Paper Fruits !

With Mumma's help



Artist at work


Artist at work


Independent creation

Idea from google
Submitting the Apple and Mango for this contest.

Bday Card to Papa

Idea Courtsey : Google Bhaiya

A vote and a quiz !

Aryan participated in his first online competition and needs your votes to win ! Vote here!

He submitted 3 crafts and you can vote for whatever you like !


3. Thumbprint Grapes & lady bird
15. The fingerprint alphabet A craft
17. The watermelon

And also leaving you with a quiz , tell what you think he has drawn below :










And the winner is SWARAM AUNTY !!!!!

Answers :
Mango
Sun
Car
Cockroach
:-)

Neelum Aunty is the Runner Up !

Water Melon and Apple Tree

Aryan painted the watermelon inspired by the turtle shell that his mumma did :)

And this will be Aryan's First entry for the artsy-craftsy challenge

And below is something we did in Dushera vacations :


What you see above is a page which says , "A is for Apples , Apple Tree , Ants and Aeroplane".

The Trunk of the tree was painted by a cardboard block , the branches and apples by the little fingers and the green of the tree was done by a loofah!

The Ants were painted by thumbprints and the "A" and the Aeroplane were done by leftover crepe frills.

This will be Aryan's Second Entry to the artsy-craftsy challenge !

Making Of A Turtle

So off went the turtle on 8th January , as part of underwater theme!

Rocket - School Trip and Craft

Aryan had a trip to HAL museum last month and I just came to know that he saw helicopter , rocket and aeroplane. And hence we made the following this weekend :

What happened when ..

..The Swine Scare hit all of us?

• Schools and daycares got closed for a week
• Mumma stayed at home (WFH) since Aryan needed someone around
• After 2 days Aryan got pissed of in house arrest & got bored of his toys
• And so Mumma decided to get crafty
• And scratched her head and digged all the scrap
• Thankfully we had left over birthday supplies at home

First one was this clown , the ball an ignored toy for 3 years , the eyes and nose were choclate wrappers, the mouth was cut from a torn face mask ..and cap ..you know that !

Aryan went in total crafty mood after the clown. For the first time ever he loved an organized activity , thanks to school or his boredom !! So he wanted to do more !

Then came the Octopus , mumma found it over the web long long back and the idea was stored in the hard disc on mumma's head. All we needed was a metal hanger some crepe paper strips and an old gift wrapper , used the reverse for eyes and mouth :P

As we were done with the octopus , he wanted to make all the animals he knew , so we made the fish next !! Looks horrible , but you know Mumma cannot be all that crafty in a single day and ofcourse mumma collected supplies for 2 crafts only and this was on the spot !!

After fish he wanted lion , doggie , girraffe and what not ..pacified him somehow.

The next day we made a necklace and he wanted to wear it to school like M (a girl in his class) :-P

P.S : All the ideas were inspired from here and there and so I owe no copyright on ideas.

..and there was a horse..

Today in the school they will go over the tail and mask err..the tale of a busy horse spider :D





YEAH YEAH ..you got it right !
Today they have a class activity where they will go over a tale of the busy spider and students need to dress like the characters. Aryan has to be a horse.

Now ..thats the activity for the mom too..how do I make him a horse is what I thought when I saw the synopsis...rent a dress , buy a dress..naah ..that would be too much work for a class activity :-P

So google bhaiya jindabad ..googled horse masks and made one. (I really hope it looks like a horse though :-P ) And a tail , ready made :-P

But he doesnot have a brown Tshirt/shirt..so what will the horse wear ???
I told him , you will be a black horse with brown face and tail..LOL!

Lets see how it goes :-)

School Crafts - 1

These are the things that he has made in his school till date. Sorry, Correction : These are the things that his ma'am made for him in school till date. Yeah , When I asked him "who made this , Aryan made " , pat came the reply "No Ma'am made". So very honestly :D

Though for the friendship band he himself told that " Ma'am banaya aur Aryan banaya". So except for the friendship bands he doesnot himself honour his contribution to the crafts :-)



This First Craft. This is supposed to be a dalmatian mask with a missing ear , which came seperately in the bag but I misplaced it somewhere :P
They showed them the movie as well.


A ScareCrow. Last month one day was celebrated as scarecrow day(don't ask me WHY?) and thats when they did this.


A Strawberry


A friendship band. 3rd August was celebrated as friendship day.