tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50521193105712961672026-04-02T18:33:06.258-07:00A spectrum of Craft to Art formed by Creativity my passion!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05906537115997854989noreply@blogger.comBlogger274125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5052119310571296167.post-1283007526342529652013-05-17T12:33:00.006-07:002013-11-22T06:46:07.487-08:00

Do you have piles of bottle caps waiting to be recycled? In our previous post, we added magnets and made bottle caps magnets, How about adding alphabet stickers inside the bottle caps for making words and spelling fun! Materials Used: Bottle Lids Adhesive Button Magnets/Magnetic tape (I bought them from Walmart. You can also use non adhesive circle magnets and Hot glue them) Alphabet

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Fuzzy sticks tinker to our creativity - We made a bouquet of flowers! Actually I had procrastinated the post, we made the flowers for last year Mother's day. Pipe cleaners come in beautiful colors and we can make a rainbow of flowers. Materials Used: Fuzzy sticks/pipe cleaners Pom Poms TP roll tube Dowel sticks/Bamboo skewer Egg carton(for arranging the flower) Glue Thanks to

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We love collecting recyclables, Junk and we have a collection of bottle lids/caps. I store them, they are easy to find and fun to play with. Magnetic stuffs are our all time favorite and this time we created Magnetic bottle lids. Magnetic bottle lids are perfect to create/recreate collages on a cookie tin lid/ Cookie tray. We also played fishing game with bottle cap magnets. Materials Used:

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As mentioned in my previous post of "How to draw Tulips", my daughter loves to draw. This time we drew flowers using dots. Step 1: Place dots as shown, 3 dots in a vertical line and place 2 interlacing dots on the either side of the vertical line Step 2: Draw a circle on the middle dot for the middle of the flower. Step 3: Draw Petals for the flower by connecting the dots as shown Draw

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Why are u playing with Tissue box? It's not Tissue box! They are Puppets! Tissue boxes are our favorite recycling material. We love playing around with them. This time we created Pig and Wolf hand puppets using Tissue boxes. We used kid friendly Origami folds to create the pig and wolf face. We are also participating in the 3rd Tissue box challenge hosted by Jdaniel4's Mom. Materials

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Yay! Birds chirping, Spring is in the air! Isn't it a good time to show how we drew tulips! CJ loves to draw and other day she was asking me to draw some tulips so that she can color. So I showed her how to draw tulips with the alphabet U and W Start by drawing an U shape on paper Make a W shape on top of the U as shown below Draw a straight line for stem and place two dots on either side

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The Snow fairy is a snow project CJ made for her school. It's completely her creativity. I just gave her the craft materials. Materials used: Small paper plates - 3 no Construction paper Pom poms Markers, pen Child safe scissors Glue stick Steps Overview: Using Glue stick apply glue on the wrong side of the plates. Glue them one by one in a vertical row on a construction paper. you get

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Butterflies are our favorite! The other day CJ drew a page full of butterflies. She asked "Mommy do you want to learn how to draw butterfly, I can show you" I was amazed to see how she kept dots and drew the butterfly. CJ said her grandmother(my mommy) taught her how to draw the butterfly Rangoli. She is excited to show the step by step instructions on the blog. All you need: paper, Pencil,

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We love doing crafts and Art from Recycling materials. When I craft with my daughter I prefer not to spend much on the craft and go for inexpensive crafts. The advantage of involving kids in recycling is that they become more responsible and creative in using the resources. Before we toss something in recycling Bin, CJ always asks Mommy wait don't you think that we can do a craft with these:-)

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Happy New year! New year is here, before we start off with new activities I would love to look up at our last year posts. Here is a quick recap of the top ten most viewed post as per Blogger stats! #1 - How Plants absorb Water: Celery Science Experiment We carefully peeled the upper layer of celery to check the colored capillary tubes inside the celery and how the water is absorbed. #2 -

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Three years ago, I made a nativity scene from glue stick nativity figures and Juice carton stable. We treasure them and every year during Christmas, CJ loves to create the nativity scene. This time when we got it out, we found that the baby Jesus doll was missing. So we decided to create Baby Jesus and painted Mother Mary and St. Joseph dolls. Mother Mary and St. Joseph are made from Empty

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We reuse/upcycle Styrofoam egg carton as stamps. CJ loves the pattern it makes and we had used egg carton stamps for painting the life cycle of Butterfly. This time we made Christmas tree art using egg carton cutouts as stamps. Materials Used: Poster board Styrofoam Egg Carton Tempera paint Tri-beads Styrofoam tray for mixing paint White Oil pastel(for snowflakes) Child safe scissors Glue

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When I was a child in my place more emphasis was on the crib scene, the real reason for Christmas and very few people used to have Christmas tree. But now the trend has changed there too so many Christmas tree in shops and everywhere. I still remember how we used to sow the mustard seeds in the mud and waited for the seeds to sprout. The mustard grass bed would be the initial set up of crib.

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We are participating in the year long virtual book club for kids. Though we read the virtual book club book for last two months, we missed to post. November month's featured author is Tomie dePaola. Tomie dePaola has written and/or illustrated nearly 250 books. We own a copy of the book "The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush" and since it's one of our favorite book, we decided to go with the

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We made craft stick Scarecrow for the kindergarten craft session. The Scarecrow is perfect to hang on the door for the Fall season. I was inspired by the Scarecrow craft from Little Family fun blog, I made the craft with my twists and turns. Book-The Lazy Scarecrow (Read-It! Readers) It's a story of a scarecrow who doesn't do his job on time. But realizes it later and works hard.

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Craft Pom Poms come in different sizes from 1/2 inch to 2 inch size. We got a bag of them from Craftprojectideas.com. Thank you Craftprojectideas.com! We made the birthday card with Pom poms and pipe cleaner. When we were in India, CJ and my niece used the tiny and the medium size pom poms to create cards for my elder brother. The card is simple to make and can also be made for Mother's Day

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Fall season you see pumpkin pumpkin every where! I thought it would be fun to make a pumpkin craft for the kindergarten craft session. Big 3D paper pumpkin! I searched for paper pumpkin crafts and found a whole lot of them. But most of them were not very kid-friendly. So I created a template from construction paper, interested how we made the paper pumpkin from the template... We read the book

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After we came back from vacation, CJ had to step into the next milestone, Kindergarten. Its a real big school experience and change not only for her, for us too. She was away at school for full day and that came very difficult on me. Sigh! She is growing and I have to move on with her. When we got the school papers filled, there were few forms for parent volunteers. I asked CJ whether she will

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As I wrote in my previous post of simple paper Jack-O-Lantern we have not carved pumpkins in our life time. We go for no-carve version. From the start of Halloween season, CJ has been asking to carve and finally we made it. Yay! The Inspiration for making small and big Jack-O-Lanterns is from the book - The Bumpy Little Pumpkin, more about the book here!! We got our pumpkins from the

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Mini Pumpkins + Glitter Glue --> Beautiful glitter Pumpkin Cj loves to decorate the pumpkins with glitter. But I'm worried of the mess, glitter dust. So we used Glitter glue to decorate the pumpkins, not messy and sparkly pumpkins. Thank you Craftprojectideas.com for the glitter glue. All you Need: Steps Overview: Start drawing/playing around the pumpkin with glitter glue We

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No-carve Pumpkin decorations were hit at our home until last year. But this year CJ is very particular to carve pumpkins. In fact we have not carved a pumpkin in our life time. As far as possible I'm trying to skip the carving and so whenever we see a pumpkin aisle I try to distract my little one. Other day CJ got me an orange construction paper and said "Mommy, you are not buying me a Pumpkin to

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We are excited to show off the craft supplies we got from Craftprojectideas.com Before we left to India, we got one of the box and while we were gone one more box of Back to school supplies. I mailed Craft Project Ideas that we were on a break and will get back to crafting soon. They were gracious to sent a box of crafts for the Holiday Season. Thank you Craftprojectideas.com!

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After a Long Break, Finally I got to post! Thank you for visiting my webpage while we were gone and some of you had mailed about our silence! Sorry for suddenly going out of blogger world with out informing. We(CJ and I) are back from India after a long vacation. I didn't think of taking a Blog Break but after reaching India there was so much to do and our only computer time was making Skype

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We are so so excited to be a part of an exciting fundraiser Small Hands Creating Hope for the American Cancer Society. Unfortunately most of us know someone who has been affected by cancer. In childhood, I heard about cancer first time when one of my favorite teacher's, 8 yr old kid got cancer. It was so hard to see him suffer and he died after a year.  Next hit was when I was in college,

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Yes! Creativity my Passion has a new name - Crafttoart! Welcome to Spectrum of Craft to Art by the rays of creativity! It was a tough decision to make whether to stay with old name or go with a name change. I love my old blog name but it was quiet big, realized that it was bigger than 15 characters when I was trying to create a username @pinterest. That was the main push for the name change. I

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