TP rolls toy Binoculars - easy n cute

Today is Mei Mei arts class again

This week her homework is TP rolls binoculars...

After browsing through Pinterest...

She still not happy with the samples she found...

So, this is her creations after some 'upgrade' from

what she learn from the internets...

She did it within an hour.

Yes, she is very proud of her works

and so am I.

She used some old strings which I salvaged earlier from

old drinking bottle (the green and blue ones)

Cut some flower shape cardboard...for the 'lens'

wrap the lens with large roll of sticky tape / cellophane tapes

to make an 'easy instant ' lens'  glass.

Connect the tp rolls with a empty staples bullets box.

wrap with color paper and decor with washi tapes.

Add to little cute eraser owls to enhance the 'watch out' level.

Love it!

Must do back to school tools - ..Drinking bottle + Sharpener

As a mom, I always have to choose between..

A) A clean house

B) Happy kids

And of course... I believe (B) is a a better choice.

But I can't stand 'messy' house.

So...today...while the little one is doing her favourite pass time activity...coloring

Yes...the little girl understand how her mom would react when seeing

the sharpener waste 'fly' and ' landed' on the freshly mopped floor.

She really did try very hard by holding the sharpening 'inside' the rubbish bin.

Poor thing...she more concentrate in the sharpening process then enjoying the coloring process.

So... something suddenly comes into my mind....

I'm too busy to write down the tutorial...(need to do cleaning....)

hope the pictures flow above helps.

Have a nice day!

Love

PC & Mei Mei

Bringing this to party at

Tutorial - Easy Kids Craft - "Tie" Sponge Cat / Bear?

Evey Wednesday, Mei Mei's school have art class.

This morning, her teacher asked the class to bring a list of material to for the art class...

Some rubber bands

A ractangular sponge of any color

some ribbon or lace,

buttons, stickers, anything for decoration

She ran through my stash and took whatever

that interest her.

So, this is what she bought back from school.

Jojo's art class homework - Making Art from Nature

Hi! 2015 is full of suprise...

good and bad

Well, today I would like to share

Jojo's recent art class homework

"Making Art from Nature"

The class is asked to produce an art piece

with natural material.

With only 1 night lead time

we have limited material on hands

and here is what she came out with

2015 Chinese New Year Goat Lantern

Every pre-Chinese New Year,

Jojo's school will ask each student to submit a lantern

made of red packets to hang in the school hall.

As this year is the year of goat / sheep...

we thought we should try something

more fun than making the ordinary Chinese lantern.

Jojo found a very interesting website from Japan which

have tutorial and PDF template to make

a paper model Sheep

here is the link 

http://papermodel.jp/eto.html

With some modification

this is what she came out at last.

After finish the paper model sheep

she added some red packets which pre-cut into

round shape and pasted on the sheep'body'

She also added a pair of 'horn' for the sheep.

Back to school project - cute animal and smiley paper clips

A cute little DIY  idea to brighten up the little one when they is school.

Saw these in the online shop...but I bet with a little paint pen or

nail polish...this can be a very fun minutes DIY projects with

the girls.

Trash to Treasure - Plastic Egg Capsules from vending machine...Minions Toy!

Every evening,  I'll fetch Mei Mei and Jojo after school.
I always park in front of a small grocery stalls.

There was a few toy vending machines placed by the store's owneroutside his store.  

Those plastic egg that contain 'secret' toys vending machine

are a big hits during after school time.

The kids will rush out from the school gates...and feed those machine

with their leftover pocket money.

And sadly, after 5 minutes...all the kids left....
and they left behind those all the empty egg shells.

Well, one kids trash is another kids treasure...

Mei Mei and Jojo enjoy collecting those colorful shells.

They kept all sort of little items in it...earrings, rings, eraser,

and Mei Mei even have one specially for her fallen tooth!

Today, when seeing my kids playing with the little shells...

Something popped into my mind.

It just took us few minutes to make some of them into these....

Easy blow paint art for Chinese New Year decor...

I am so proud...

Really ...really proud....

By dripping, splashing, blowing

My girls make this today...

Kids craft - beaded bongsai tree

The Chinese New Year is getting close...

(This year...CNY falls on 10th of Feb 2013)

I'm busy cleaning and clearing the house.

Jojo and Mei Mei are sort of free...

They are running  and playing around the house when I WAS HOUSEKEEPING!!!

and this make me SICK!

So, when I found some packs of old beads...and strays of craft wire...

I remember a nice DIY I saw in the Pinterest...

via

(Check out the link for the detail step by step DIY.)

I think this is beautiful piece of arts.

So, I took a piece of rock and tie up the wire...and pass it to the girls...

This is what they accomplished after I finished cleaning the first and second floor...

(about an hour ....)

First day at school...

Oh, dear.  I've been missing for quite sometimes.  Please forgive me...but if you happened to be a mom...especially and SAHM...you will definitely understand.  School holidays ...Christmas holidays...New Year holidays....are meant for kids...teenagers...singles...dads...but definitely not for moms...those are the busiest moments of the whole years.  Because at those days...the cooking...washing...cleaning...are EVEN MORE and NEVER ENDS!!!

So, wish you all a great new year....2013!!! Which ends all the 'end of the world' stories!!!..  Hmm, wonder what 'date' will they come up next?

So, what 'BIG' happening at my corner of the world?  Well, it definitely is "BACK TO SCHOOL"!

This year, Mei Mei turns 7 years old and she is joining Jojo

to attend primary school.  Jojo is in Primary Yr 3 this year.

Jojo and her 'shapes' assignment!

Last evening, Jojo 'bring' a last minutes assignment from school...

TITLE

"Creatively combine 3D shapes into an item"

Honestly...I love 'handwork' and project require creativity and imagination...

but...one evening notice...Urghhh..... 

Do I have any problem?

Not really...but I just send a big batch of paper, carboard...etc to the recycle centre...

Why...whenever the trash bin in cleared????

What ever...

At last...Jojo made it...

(with a little help from me...I just love to participate in craft work project!)

We manage to clear out a shoe box, some bottle caps, 

cardboard and some biscuit wrapper...

Here it is...

No...it's not a house...

(someone in the class has taken this idea )

is not a building...

(mama don't have enough box of different shapes...:p)

is not a robot...

it's a.....

Camera!!!

can you see the box from candles and

the little square one is the squash ball box.

the lens is a potatoes chip cylinder tube

DIY Gourmet Play - Sushi Toys Free n Easy!!!

Today, I made a big surprised treat for the girls...

I made them these....

Err...these are not for lunch... it's a set of sushi gourmet play
 for the Jojo and Mei Mei who happen to be a great sushi fans.

Can you guess how much I spend to make them???

Time : less than 30 minutes
Cost : $0

Want to know how?????

You must have the "secret ingredients"

Perfect Toast for Mother's Day!

Days ago, I came across a pretty fancy toast by a "Pop Art" Toaster.

It looks so fun and the kids definitely will love it.

I didn't got the toaster but it did inspired me for this fun project
that you can do with your little ones on this coming Mother's Day!

So, with my ordinary toaster and 'weird creativity',

the girls and I made these during breakfast this morning.

Another fun recycle.... Silly googly eyes...Guess how I made them...

Yay! The girls and I have so much fun this morning...with some 'trash' turn into 'FUN'.

The 'trash' was actually these...

Oh...No!  Don't get me wrong....we are not 'playing' with

the pills... that's is very dangerous...

We are interested only in the PACKING!!???

Yup...We turn them into these...

GOOGLY EYES!!!

Yes, I know... googly eyes are quite cheap in store

BUT..... I have a very good reason...

Meijo's first .....Cross stitch!!!

Jojo found this beautiful works by an Ukranian artis, Forostyuk Inna...from Pinterest.  

And she so totally want to try it!!! 

Oh dear, I'm not absolutely have proper 'know-how' in cross stitch....what I do know that is all the stitches are suppose to...CROSSED?

Jojo and Pinterest...

Hi!

I'm fully busy with the Chinese New Year preparation...

Just now my hubby just called...

He want me to buy some paint ...he want to repaint some parts of the house...

Oh dear!  When will my CNY to do list ever done?

As for the time being...

Maybe I'll share with you some of Jojo's project

Jojo's is so into Pinterest lately...

This is one of the pin she loves

She plan to do this with Mei Mei...

but sometimes ... the 'plan' and the 'actual' may be quite errr...errr...

scroll down and check for yourself... 

Hmmm......

Jojo : "Mei Mei... your hands are too short!"

Guess..Mei Mei pay more attention to the camera than to her big sister!

Love

PC

Mei Mei

Jojo

First DIY henna - fake tattoo!

  I always love the 'experiment' fun and simple to do fashion trend with my girls!  Recently, I have accomplished another 'to do fashion' with the girls.... While checking out an Indian jewellery shop at the neighborhood...I came across this...

This is a pre-mixed henna cone...

it cost RM1.00

The girls and I had been looking forward to 'do' this, ever since we saw the henna hand and palm decorations posted by Creative Mind.

As this is our first...we just try some very simple design...Mei Mei and Jojo both said they want something with flowers and butterflies and this is my best first trial....

And this is how it looks like after wash away

The color can be in darker red if the girls can be more patience

I understand some leave it on for over night before washed away

but this project...we just leave on for an hour

The temporary 'tattoo' last for about 10 days on the girls hands...

I have to remove it and get they hands cleaned as the new school semester starts tomorrow!

Have a nice day

and

Happy New Year 2012!

Love

PC

Jojo

Mei Mei

Minute DIY : Let's Play Dress Up Snowman!

Oh dear!  This morning when I was folding all the laundry...."

Jojo :  Mom, we already have a 'Christmas tree' (not the real thing - read here for Jojo's DIY Christmas tree)...but we don't have any snowman...why can we have snowman in Malaysia?)
Mei Mei : We will need a big refrigerator!?
Hmm...I start to imagine all three of us in a 'big' refrigerator... Haha... while folding Jojo's new white socks I bought for her to use when the school open again in January 2012.   And suddenly I have this silly idea...Check out what we did minutes later...

And this is how it started...

But before this ...you need to know how I normally fold my kids socks

I guess this should be familiar to some of you out there...

Get a pair of sock

Lay one sock on top of the other...

The top one is a bit lower than the bottom ones...

Rolled them together from the bottom...

Left about an inch...

Pull the stretchy part of the  bottom sock and pull down

and wrap the whole roll into it

This is what you will get...

And this is what I was doing when Jojo said she want to make snowman....

So, why not?  Let's make a snowman

I stack 3 sock 'bun's together and make them into the 

shape of a snowman...

I bring out all my pins and stash of ribbons, button and

all my success and failure projects leftovers for the girls... 

 Snowman making in progress...

While the girls are busy with the snowman...

I can have some quiet time for blogging....HaHa!

Mama only spend minutes on the sock's bun...

Mei Mei and Jojo spend the whole morning 'making snowman'

or 'dressing' snowman!

Ready for some snowman parade?

Meet Mr and Mrs Strawberry...they are on their way to sell some strawberry in the market!

Ms Pinky... watering her roses in the garden....

This is Mrs. Brown...ready to attend Hi-Tea party with her friends!

This is such a great project to do with kids during Christmas or

when you need to keep your kids busy when get prepared for Christmas!

Have fun!

This is definitely going to the LAST Christmas's project for 2011!

I'm packing up for a short holiday

going to visit my in laws this weekend

see you after Christmas!

Happy Weekend

Happy Holiday

Merry Christmas!

Love

PC

Mei Mei

Jojo

These snowman are attending below party!