Craft Scope

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I am a stay at home mum with two young children.
I love craft, and maintain this blog in my "spare" time.
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Craft Scope

Musical Kazoo - Free Kids Craft

June 12th 2009 06:28

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Finished Kazoo

Make a very simple musical instrument using a cardboard roll.

Materials Required:

1. Cardboard roll
2. Piece of paper lunch wrap - large enough to wrap around one end of the cardboard roll
3. Lacky band
3. Decorations - I used coloured sticky tape and stickers
4. Single hole punch

Instructions

1. Punch a hole approximately 2.0 cm from one end of the cardboard roll

2. Decorate the cardboard roll. Do not cover the punched hole.

3. Use the lacky band to secure the paper lunch wrap over the end of the kazoo which has the hole punched. Make sure the hole remains exposed.

Finished Kazoo

4. To play the kazoo, put your mouth on the open end, and loundly hum a tune.

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Posted By: Jude O'Connell - Category: Kids Craft, Pre-School Craft

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Plant a Flower Garden - Preschool Craft

March 19th 2009 11:32

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Plant a Flower Garden - Preschool Craft

Have fun making flowers and then "planting" them in pots...

Materials Required:

1. Egg carton
2. 3 straws (green)
3. Coloured thin card
4. Sticky tape
5. Decorations - textas, glitter, stickers
6. Playdough
7. Scissors

Instructions:

1. Print off the template below onto a piece of card.
Cut out the shapes and use them as template to draw the shapes onto coloured card.
Cut out the flower and leaf shapes from the coloured card.

NB: you will need 3 leaf shapes and one of each flower shape.

Hint: You can design your own flower shapes if you wish.

Printing Instructions

Click on the image below to bring up the full-size image.
Choose "file", and click on "print preview"
Click on the printer symbol to start printing

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Plant a FLower Garden Craft

2. Decorate the flowers as you wish - the ones in the photos were decorated with textas, stickers and glitter glue.

3. Tape the flowers onto the straws.

4. Decorate the leaves (if wished) and tape the leaves onto the straws.

5. Cut out a row of 3 egg compartments from a egg carton.

6. Put a lump of playdough in the base of each egg compartment.

7. "Plant" your flowers into the egg carton, one flower into each egg compartment.

EXTRAS:

- You could paint your egg carton before planting the flowers into them.

- Get creative - use buttons, glitter, punchies, pieces of ribbons, small pieces of scrunched up tissue paper etc to decorate your flowers.

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Posted By: Jude O'Connell - Category: Kids Craft, Pre-School Craft

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Rainbow Straw Crown

March 2nd 2009 09:59

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Rainbow Straw Crown

Materials Required:

1. Straws (bendable) in different colours and cut to different lengths.
2. Clear contact 12cm wide x 45cm long (approx)
3. Sciissors
4. Strip of cardboard 5cm wide x approx 30cm long
5. Stapler
6. Sticky Tape

Instructions:

NB: You can double click on an image to get a larger view.

1. Fold the contact in half, and run your fingernail along the crease.
Open it up again. There will be a crease line down the centre.
Peel the covering off one half of the contact.

2. Lay the straws onto the revealed contact, lining their bases up with the centre crease. Leave about 4cm of contact free of straws at each end.
Peel the remaining contact cover off.

3. Fold the lower flap of cantact up over the straws.
At both ends of the contact (where there are no straws) the contact may not line up perfectly. If this is the case, snip down to where both layers meet, next to the last straw, and then fold down the contact down. This will stop any contact form sticking to the child's hair.

4. Staple the crown onto the cardboard strip. Measure the length of card required for the crown to fit around the childs head, and then staple the other side to the required length.
Cover the staple ends with sticky tape, so that they can't catch in the child's hair.

Finished Crown

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Heart Card - Silver Hearts

February 8th 2009 12:08

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Instructions:
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Posted By: Jude O'Connell - Category: Card Making, Valentines Cards

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Valentines Cards #3

February 8th 2009 11:43

Here is another version of the Valentine Glitter Heart Card.

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Valentine Glitter Heart Cards #2

February 8th 2009 07:16

Here are three more cards, which are variations on the Valentine Glitter Heart Card.
The instructions for making the glitter hearts is here and the instructions for making a card with a window in the front are here.

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