Edible Paint

I LOVE waterbased paint so much, because the stains can be cleaned up easily. But our toddlers are usually curious and try to taste everything attractive to them. So I decided to google up the ingredients to make edible paint and I ended up with this:

• 1 cup water
• 1 tbsp corn starch
• food coloring

Put water and corn starch in a pan, stir until it mixed well, cook over low heat and keep stirring until it gets thicker. 

Pour it into some cups and add food coloring until you get the desired color. Let it cool down and get ready for painting activities!

Happy painting! =)

DIY Train

We have empty milk cartons every two days, can you imagine how many we have?
Instead of throwing it away, we upcycle it into crafts. 

Upcycle milk cartons into train is one of the must do craft, it's easy and useful.

Use it to store kids' hair clips, craft accessories, pencil holder or even let them use it as their toy!
This time, we have Lio as Jenn's fave cousin to make the train together.

Materials needed:

• Milk cartons
• Thick paper
• Waterbased paint
• Cardboard
• Marker
• Glue
• Scissor

Firstly, fully cover the milk carton with thick paper, I used drawing paper which is not easy to tear off. Then cut cardboards into circles as the train's wheels, color it with black marker.

Then let those little hands do their art by using marker or waterbased paint, but please keep an eye on them, they might paint your wall or even try to taste it!

I let them to use colorful markers at the beginning but seems like they're not interested with it, so I let them to use the paint for the rest of it.

Making an edible paint is a good idea, since toddlers like to taste everything new, I'll make one for the next project!

Let the paint dry off, and stick the wheels on both sides. 

Jenn couldn't wait for the train, she quickly take out her animals collection and look at that big smile she got on her face!

DIY Birthday Banner

On granny's birthday, we decided to make something for her.

We made cute bunny birthday card, link for step by step instruction of Bunny Birthday Card

And these are what we need for the banner:

• Cardboard
• Crepe paper
• Marker
• Scissor
• Glue

1. Make circles with the cardboard. Then I let Jenn make scratches with pencil color on it.

2. Write the word "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" on the cardboard with colorful markers.

3. Make ruffle with the crepe paper around the cardboard. 

Happy Birthday, Granny! We ♥ you

DIY Bunny Snack Cover

Are you ready for another RABBIT craft? Yessss, Jenn is sooooo crazy about rabbits!

This time we wanna give a snack for Jenn's godmom with a very cute decoration on it, hope she like it and you guys like it too!

These are what you need:
Origami paper
Paper 
Scissor
Glue
Scotch tape
Snack

If you wanna have the paper with paints on like we do, you may follow the steps on DIY Upcycle Pencil Holder

Take out the snack cover gently and draw the shape on the painted paper.
Cut the shape out and stick it on the snack, and cut some more for the ears.

Stick it on the snack, we secure it with scotch tape at the end.

Add up some decoration, we made eyes, smiling mouth with rabbit teeth and a ribbon.

And it's done! 

DIY Upcycle Pencil Holder

We have bunch of tools for making these crafts, and it's all over the room! We really need a holder to keep it all in the place, nice and tidy.

The materials needed:

Used milk carton

Thick white paper 

Old cardboard

Origami paper

Goggly eyes

Marker

Glue

Scotch tape

Ribbon

Sponge

Bottle

Food colouring

Firstly, we want to turn the paper into pink colour, and we use a new method this time. Put in some water into the bottle and drop some food colouring until you get the colour wanted. Stuck the sponge on the bottle neck, that's where the colour will come out, but make sure it's not leaking. Use a thick paper to draw on it, or else the paper will torn up easily.

I think it's too watery, and the colour didn't come out as expected. But it's still so much fun for Jenn to play with. It took a while to let the paper dry, so we can prepare the ears and ribbon for decoration. Draw rabbit ears on the cardboard and cut it out. Stick a pink and white origami paper on the ear shape cardboard. 

Once the paper dry, stick it on the milk carton and secure it with scotch tape. Add up all of the decoration and tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..! ♥

DIY Rabbit Father's Day Card

Father's day is coming very soon, here's an idea to let your toddler make their own father's day card.

Jenn is loving rabbit at the moment, so we chose rabbit as the theme.

This is the list of what you need for the card:

• waterbased paint
• cardboard
• scotch tape
• cotton bud
• marker
• origami paper
• eyes

I chose waterbased paint because it's easy to clean up, this activity may caused a lot of mess! 

*WARNING* You're gonna have to clean up those tiny hands, table, chair and clothes. 

Firstly, cut a rabbit shape and stick it gently with scotch tape on a cardboard. 

Dip the cotton bud into the paint and let them get some fun.

Make sure the edge of rabbit shape are surrounded by dots.

Take off the rabbit shape, then you will be able to see rabbit shape on the cardboard.

Time to do some decoration, add up some eyes, pinky cheek, mouth, ribbon or even a necktie.

Write messages at the back side and I let jenn to stick some stickers to make it more colourful.

We made one for granny's birthday card too!

♥ Happy Father's Day! ♥

Fine Motor Skill Activity

Fine motor skills are important for kids, it includes anything that require the strength of those little hands' muscles. There are activities to develop the skill, such as exploring sensory play, slotting toys, sticking, tearing and scrunching papers.

This is one of Jenn's favourite activity, materials needed are easy to find:

• cereal/biscuit box
• straw
• scissor
• pen

Cut straws into small pieces, make sure it's big enough for the kids to hold.

Use a pen to make holes on the box, I made holes on every side of the box to make it more fun.

Enjoy the quite time! =)

DIY Cotton Sheep

Jenn LOVES Shaun the Sheep, it's her fave TV program every evening, so it inspired me to make one! 

Things we need:

• Cardboard
• Cotton
• Scissor
• Marker
• Glue
• Scotch tape

1. Jenn helped me to roll the cotton into balls, don't expect it to be perfect, a little touch up needed. We made around 30 balls, make sure it's not too small and tight, we want it to be fluffy.
2. Then cut the cardboard into a medium size of round and spread glue on it. 
3. Stick cotton balls on the cardboard and make sure it is fully covered.
4. Cut cardboard for the sheep's head and feet, colour it with a black marker.
5. Don't forget to cut a small paper for the eye.

DIY Paper Slipper

I’ve been flooded with scratches papers and cardboards all over the house! Instead of throwing those abstract arts, I decided to make something out of it, something cute yet easy. Let’s make a paper slipper today!

Here what you need:

Cardboard

Colour pencil, marker, crayon, paint (you name it!)

Colour Paper

Scotch tape

Stickers

First, let them be a little Picasso, making scratches on the cardboard, as colourful as they want.

Once they’re done, you need to measure those tiny little feet on the paper and cut them up. Make sure the cutting is bigger than the actual size, which will be easier for them to put on and off.

Cover the colour paper with scotch tape, just to keep it from tearing off while they try the slipper on. Let them stick stickers on it for decoration, Jenn goes crazy every time she saw stickers! Then put the colour paper across the slipper, and secure with scotch tape at the back. And it’s ready to put on! =)