Showing posts with label My Works. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Works. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2015

DIY Holder

Its Summer time here in USA. 2.5 months of holidays. Play time,Screen time and Play dates are doubled, yet kids get bored often. So here, easy craft works or DIY projects help us a lot :)


Today, I wanted to talk about 3 R's Reduce-Reuse-Recycle . They are learning about Recycling at school. We discussed how we can  Reuse the things we have at home, and how it cut down the waste we throw away. She told me, at school how they reused the egg carton to organize the shells. I also showed her how Gayathri has used the cereal box to create a cool Father's day gift. She wants to try it soon. Just waiting for us to buy a cereal box :)

What you need:

1. Clean Shampoo bottle.
2. Cloth or duct tape
3. Scissors/ Card board cutter
4. Glue
5. Pom pom and a button to decorate




This part takes little time and patience. I helped her with folding the cloth so that it looks neat.
There are lots of colored and decorated duct tapes available at the market. Those are so easy to use.





Monday, April 20, 2015

DIY Laminated Name Tag!

Laminated Name Tags

It is a must to have item if we have kids. We need to Put name tags on their bags,lunchbags and their coats, their pencil purse etc.. just to make it easy for the little ones and also to find it among the pool of "Lost and Found" section at school .Yeah moms you know what I mean ;-)

Last week my DD wants her old Tinker bell Lunchbox . The Write-On Name tag was on inner side of the lunch box. So i had to make one. I ran out of time and had to rush to school within 10 mins to  give her lunch box. So thought something quick and came up with this 5 min fix ;-)


All you need is

* Wide cellophane see through tape,
*scissors,
*construction paper or plain white paper,
*  Paper puncher
* Thread

I always save the flyers the school give to reuse it some way. So i chose florescent green to match her lunch box.


Instructions:

* Cut the construction paper/white paper to the measurement of the cellophane tape you are using.
* Write the Name and Room #
* Roll out your cellophane to the length of your paper
*Carefully place the paper on the cellophane and close it with the cellophane tape.
* Cut out  the extra cellophane tape .
* Punch hole on to one end of the tag
* Tie the thread to the name tag
* Then tie this Name tag either in the Zipper or on the hook provided for the name tag.

So easy! you created your own Name tag!

I have attached the pictures for your reference