Paper crafts - stained glass windows

Recently, my son had a special homework.

The school requested students to prepare a book report on a window. The window could be decorated with any material we like.

This was a funny homework.

My son and I immediately thought about the church's stained glass window.

But how to make this??

We had played stained glass colors recently. (http://shinekidscrafts.blogspot.hk/2014/01/glass-decor-color-project-photo-frame.html)

But if we used them on the window would not be pretty cos glass colors need light to make them beautiful!

I remembered we still had some glass paper which was left after making lantern in the Kindergarten. (That is already a few years ago, lol!)

Thus, we finally decided to use color and black papers to make the window frame and then put the glass paper at the back to make it more beautiful.



At the beginning, we used some second-hand paper to practice.

We folded the square paper half and half into eight sections / triangles.

We used pencil to draw patterns.

After cutting, we unfolded the paper to see if the pattern was pretty.

Below is the our work.

The window could be opened in the middle.

The text was written inside the window.

 

Competition 2014 (1)

The blank puzzles are very popular in my shop. Thanks for your support!

Now, I would like to hold a competition. Anyone who has bought blank puzzles from my shop can have chance to win US$20 coupon (which can be used for buying from my shops). You just need to submit picture(s) showing your finishing puzzle. I will post it for you. Any participant's post can get most LIKE will win the competition.

For those who have liked participant's puzzle, if you also LIKED my Facebook Page, you will have chance to win US$10 coupon. I will choose two lucky people from among them.

If you have not buy any blank puzzles from me, buy one now then you can join the competition.

I am ready to receive your work now and it will be ended at Hong Kong Time 12:00am on 31/3.

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Kids Crafts - Cardboard Maze

I saw some interesting booth games in a party.

I think they can be made easily at home for the kids too.

Like this, it is a maze made with cardboard and Styrofoam.

Kids can play in pairs or one by one.

What they need to do is to roll a table tennis ball from the start to the end point in a maze.

The maze is easy to make.

First find a big Styrofoam or cardboard as the bottom.

Design the maze on the board. Then use cardboards to make the walls of the maze.

To add challenges, you can add some slopes or obstacles in the maze like this one.

At the right bottom corner, two ways were made with slope.

And there were some obstacles in the middle of some of the way.

It was quite difficult to make the ball pass through these ways easily.


You don't need to buy any material for making this.

You can save cardboards / styrofoam from food or toy packages.


If you don't want to make a big one, you can use Lego to make a small one and then use marble to play with it.

Children must have a great fun with this simple and cheap game, lol!

Chinese New Year Red Packet Show

Chinese New Year has just passed.

We received a lot of red packets.

Chinese usually exchange red packets with money inside in Chinese New Year.

There are different designs of red packets.

I like to take photos for those with special design for future reference.

Below are those collected in this year.

Red packets like to use fish because the pronunciation of fish in Cantonese is the same as that for the pronunciation of surplus.