Clay Craft # 4 : Fruits and Basket

Here's my fourth clay craft. Want some fruits? hehe My personal fab would be the bananas.
Oh the basket is made out of clay too. This time no need for Acrylic paint and needles.
Have fun!

Merlion Soap Sculpture

I'm really disappointed on what happened to my pictures. I decided to reformat my PC however, i failed to save a back up copy of the folder that contains all the pictures of our crafts. I lost them all and the only copies I have are the pictures posted here in my blog. I lost almost all of our new and not yet revealed crafts. Thanks God I manage to keep some of them through those image hosting sites like Photobucket and Imageshack ... sigh

Today, will share you a very exciting craft. I made this Soap sculpture a month ago for my cousin's school art project. The materials to be used here are the following. A block of soap, cutter, and pencil.

I wish i can share the step by step process but my pictures, just like what i've said they were accidentally removed from my hard drive after reformatting.
My cousin asked me if i can carve the Merlion( a popular landmark from Singapore , a half lion half mermaid statue). Just draw the image on top of the soap and start carving carefully. A single mistake will ruin your entire craft so just do it gently.

Here's the finished product!. My very own Merlion Soap Sculpture

Making Katana Swords

Today we will make our own version of Katana swords. Katana is a type of Japanese sword that is characterized by its distinctive appearance: a curved, slender, single edged blade, circular or squared guard, and long grip to accommodate two hands.

To Start, we need 2 flat sticks about 18-20 inches long, Acrylic paint, colored paper, card board, glue, glue stick.

Simply draw this pattern on your card board. It is symmetrical so you can just fold the cardboard into two and draw the half of the pattern and cut.

Glue the 1/3 part of the flat stick on the cardboard. Use glue stick and glue gun to make it more firm.

Make another one if you want.

You should have something like this. Glue each side.

Cover the handles using electrical tape.

Paint it using Acrylic Paint. We used white but it all depends on your preference. You can paint it gray or silver to make it more realistic.

Now add some details. I added some curved designs using violet colored paper. And you're Done!

Give us some pose Milzon :)

yeah!

Try it too!

Craft Box

We are so messy every time that we're making projects so i realized to make this simple Craft box to organize our things in one place.

To Start this very simple project, we need an Empty box, a cutter, and colored papers.

Measures 2 inches from the bottom.

Cut it out... Just be very careful okay!

There you go!

Cover the the craft box with an art paper.

Then add the dividers.

Tadah! Clean and organized.

January Art Projects

We are all set for this new year's project. We will start this year with a bang. We will be featuring 6 art projects for this month. Our main medium for this month are empty boxes. From Shoe box to match box, they will all come in handy this month. Here's a sneak-peak for this month project. Care to guess?

POPSICLE STICK DOLL HOUSE

Today, we'll be sharing another Popsicle Stick Art Project. This will be the 4th out of the 6 Popsicle Stick Art Projects that we will be featuring this month.

Today, we'll make a Doll House. To start with, simply prepare Popsicle Sticks, glue gun and glue sticks. Since this is a Doll House, we chose Pink and Violet as our main color.

Layout the popsicle sticks like this. Vertical Position

Layout popsicle sticks horizontally like this (forming a platform). This will serve as our Floor.

Flip it up and connect the two platforms using small pieces of Popsicle Sticks. This will keep the floor more firm.

Then make walls.

Should form something like this.

You can also add small compartments inside.

The closer look to our compartment...... This will serve as the bed room.
Make the roof out of Popsicle sticks as well.

Now if you have some miniature toys like this. You can just arrange them inside based on your own preferences.

Mirasol arranging the furniture

Fixing the bed room....

Placing the Roof.

Tadah!!! Enjoy Playing!!

Making an Improvised Maracas

By the first week of December, Children starts singing carol from one house to another. In exchange, the house owner will give them some candies or money as their early Christmas gifts. I remember when i was a kid, i used to ask my dad to make me an improvised drum, so that i can come with my friends and play my drums while others are singing. It's just like the Christmas version of Halloween's Trick or Treat. Here's Mirasol, she will show us how to make an improvised Maracas.

To start, we need small pieces of rocks, Colored Papers, laces and ribbons, 2 empty bottles and glue.

Insert the rocks evenly on both empty bottles.

Seal them with the cap and cover the bottle using a colored paper.

Do the same procedure with the other bottle.

Start designing your own maracas by placing ribbons and laces all over.

Here's what we did, we place ribbons and laces on every corner of the bottle. We used different colors to make it more alive.

We glue some circle cut-outs too!

Now, we placed ribbons on the top of the bottle cap.

There you go, your very own Improvised Maracas!