Paru's Perceptions: Craft classes

SEWING WITH WOOL ON COTTON BAGS

In craft class today we made these fabulously easy canvas bags.

The bags are pre-made by "The Cotton Bag Movement", an amazing NGO which is slowly but surely working towards making Mumbaikars move from plastic bags to cotton bags.

My kids decorated them by sewing with wool in different colours. Cute aren't they?

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SAFETY PIN NECKLACE

This was a really fun activity that we did in class last week...simple and easy! A necklace made with beads on safety pins!!

You will find a tutorial here. Do try it at home...you will be amazed at the result!

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PEARL AND VELVET RIBBON BRACELET

I found this tutorial online and decided to get one of my students to try making this gorgeous bracelet.

It was fun and (not too) easy to make! Quite satifying!

Hope you try it too!

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ORIGAMI CHRISTMAS TREE

Continuing with our Christmas crafts this month, we made this gorgeous Origami Christmas tree and decorated it with sequins and a cute garland.

You can find the tutorial here.

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'TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY!

We have kickstarted the Christmas season in class by making these adorable 3D Christmas tags!

I found inspiration here and here.

Here's wishing you a wonderfully crafty season!

I will be posting more christmas crafts this month so do come back!

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HAPPY DIWALI

My chinese students painted these gorgeous diyas this Diwali, as did all my other students!

Here's wishing you all a wonderful, happy, prosperous and crafty diwali!!

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GANESH CHATURTHI 2012

So sorry for the late post...Here is the activity we did for Ganesh Chaturthi this year.

It was a simple collage, but ended up being such a WOW project! the kids were really happy, as was I!

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HALLOWEEN TUBE MONSTERS

Inspired by a project I saw here by Alisa Burke, I got my kids to make these fun monster tubes for Halloween! The kids (and I) really enjoyed making them...ther's no end to making your imagination run wild, is there?!

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WATERFALL CARDS

I recently made a set of waterfall cards (tutorial) for my son's hindi teacher..Oh! I had so much fun making them...I think you can see that in the cards. Here is a collage of the cards I made.

The stamps I used are from Stampendous, Fiskars, Hero Arts and mft stamps, stamped with Memento and Versafine inks and coloured with copics and watercolours.

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TWISTED EASEL CARD

I found this tutorial on Splitcoaststampers. This is my student Jun's take on the card.

The supplies are...Spellbinders Nestabilities, stamps from Stampin'Up and Stampendous and Faber Castell sketch pens.

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WOVEN BOOKMARKS AND ANIMAL CLOTHESPIN MAGNETS

A few things we've made in the last couple of weeks...

We tried paper weaving using quilling strips...quite successfull I thought!

Our project was inspired by a project from the book, "big book of papercrafts" by Vivienne Bolton.

The kids decorated the bookmarks in a variety of ways, as you can see...

In the picture above, my student Millie, used various stips of paper to make an evening sky and then she stamped an image of palm trees and sea gulls in black to make a silhouette. It looks remarkable...don't you think?!

Stamps are from Inkadinkado's 'coastal maritime' stamp set.

Here, my younger students made animal clothes peg magnets. Asimple project, they made it by drawing, colouring and cutting out animal faces and then fixing them to wooden clothespins. They then attached magnetic strips to the back of the pegs making them perfect and useful fridge magnets to delight their moms!

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BOX BAGS

Inspired by an activity in the "big book oF Papercrafts" by Vivienne Bolton,

we made these cute box bags this week. To decorate, the kids used the paper weaving and quilling that they learnt earlier.

They turned out quite well, don't you think?!

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CHRISTMAS IN CLASS

We kicked off the christmas season by making these gorgeous hand print wreaths! The kids enjoyed making them and I absolutely love the way they turned out!

As you can see, each child found a way to personalise their wreath!

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