Paper Plate Craft - Jumping Frog

Paper Plate Craft - Jumping Frog 

Method:

1. On the back side of a paper plate, Paint Green

2. After drying, fold the round paper plate into half to make a semicircle (or a D shape).

3. Cut out a pair of fore-arms and hind legs for your frog from green fluorescent paper, a pair of eyes from white paper and a tongue from red paper.

4. On a white construction sheet (any colour would do - preferably light colour), Partly paste the hind legs of a frog. Apply glue on the back side of the D-shaped green paper plate. (make sure it opens from the semicircular side).

5. Open your paper plate and now stick the forearms on the inside of the paper plate and now paste the tongue also on the inner side.

6. Close the paper plate back and stick eyes on the face.

7. Using black marker, outline the eyes and make black eye balls for your frog.

And.....here you go!!!

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Paper Plate Craft - Tribal Face Wall hanging

Tribal Face Wall Hanging

Simple and Easy to make crafts during summer vacations with kids.

Steps:

1. On a thermocol plate, cut out a pair of eyes and lips portion on the plate with the help of a blade/knife. 

2. Take news paper and roll it with hand. On the base (back side) of the thermocol plate, Stick the rolled newspaper strip on the edges of the eyes and mouth portion to give it an embossed effect. Leave it to dry for 5-10 mins

3. After drying, Paint the entire face in brown. 

4. Along the circumference of the round plate put white coloured dots, using white acrylic or poster colours.

5. Take coloured strips of crepe paper ribbon to make the hair of your tribal man.

6. Decorate the face using thermocol beads.

7. Using white acrylic or poster colour, give final touches to the face.

8. Using fevicol, stick this plate to a coloured construction sheet to form a base of your wall hanging. Alternatively, punch two holes on each sides and tie elastic thread to form a mask for kids to play.

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Paper Plate Craft - Sparkling Sun

Sparkling Sun

A very easy craft to do with kids during summer break. This Vibrant and Smiling Sun made out of paper plate hangs pleasing in your balcony marking the advent of summers.

Steps:

1. Take a paper plate (not thermocol plate) and paint it in yellow.

2. Cut orange and yellow coloured triangles 

3. Stick on the outer side of the rounded plate. (yellow painted surface should be on the top).

4. Using a marker, create eyes, nose and lips to make a happy and glowing sun. Alternatively use wiggly eyes and a red coloured pom pom ball for the nose.

5. Tie a ribbon at the back to make a small loop.

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CLAY PLAY

Making fridge magnets, Key chains and lockets with Clay.

This is a very simple activity. I've used No bake homemade salt dough for this activity as it is non-toxic and air dries.

Materials Required

1. Salt Dough

2. Cookie cutter

3. Acrylic colours

4. Glitter glue

5. Clear varnish

6. Ribbons, beads, key chains, hooks, disc magnets or magnetic strips etc.

Step 1: Prepare salt dough - No bake clay

Procedure: Take 1 measure of everyday flour. Mix 1/2 measure of salt. Using warm water and few drops of vegetable oil knead the mixture into chapati dough. This can be kept in an air -tight container or in  a plastic bag

Step 2: Prepare desired shapes - Take a small ball of salt dough. Spread evenly on a flat surface with the help of roller. Using cookie cutter, cut the desired shapes. Make small or big holes depending on what is to be made. For fridge magnet, press a piece of magnet at the back of the shape. 

Step 3: Leave them out in the sun (or under the fan) for drying. On drying these shapes will become very hard.

Step 4: Colour them with Acrylic colours and leave it to dry for around 30 mins. On drying put a coat of varnish to give it an extra sheen. Decorate with glitter glue.

Step 5: For making a key-chain, Put a plastic wire through the small hole. Bead the wire with beads of your choice and a bell. In the end tie a key chain ring to hold the keys. For making a locket, put a coloured ribbon through the centre big hole, tighten it and make a knot....and here you go!!!

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Warli Art

Warli Art

The Warlis or Varlis are an indigenous tribe or Adivasis, living in Mountainous as well as coastal areas of Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding areas.They have their own animistic beliefs,life,customs and traditions,as a result of acculturation they have adopted many Hindu beliefs. The Warlis speak an unwritten Varli language which belong to the southern zone of the Indo-Aryan languages and the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

Their extremely rudimentary wall paintings use a very basic graphic vocabulary: a circle, a triangle and a square.Their paintings were monosyllbic. The circle and triangle come from their observation of nature, the circle representing the sun and the moon, the triangle derived from mountains and pointed trees. Only the square seems to obey a different logic and seems to be a human invention, indicating a sacred enclosure or a piece of land. So the central motive in each ritual painting is the square, known as the "chauk" or "chaukat", mostly of two types: Devchauk and Lagnachauk. Inside a Devchauk, we find Palaghata, the mother goddess, symbolizing fertility. Significantly, male gods are unusual among the Warli and are frequently related to spirits which have taken human shape. The central motif in these ritual paintings is surrounded by scenes portraying hunting, fishing and farming, festivals and dances, trees and animals. Human and animal bodies are represented by two triangles joined at the tip; the upper triangle depicts the trunk and the lower triangle the pelvis. Their precarious equilibrium symbolizes the balance of the universe, and of the couple, and has the practical and amusing advantage of animating the bodies.

My Work in Warli Art

Decorate your side table with these mini Warli painted pots.

Give a new look to your kids' old notebooks with Warli painted covers.

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Winter Workshop 2012 @ Roohi's Collection

I have recently moved from Bangalore to Pune and have started my classes in a new locality with new kids and a New Challenge!!!

To begin with I am trying to teach a lot of easy crafts to the kids in a very simple way. Crafts selected for this workshop are good looking and easy to make as I didn't wanted to go into something really complex with difficult methodology. This craft workshop was spread over a period of  five days for two hours each day.

Day 1: I see all the kids coming on time, settling down and excited as to what's going to happen how? We started with introducing each other in a fun way and began doing the craft. Today we made "Christmas Wreaths" and Christmas Cards. 

                                  

                         

Kids enjoyed doing the craft and deep in their hearts they were happily thinking about next day's craft as I had already shown them the samples and they knew what we were going to do in the next few days. Before going home, all the kids knew they had to do the preparations for the next day, so quickly they all got back to work. They painted their paper plates with a sponge in three colours.

Day 2: Today we made Christmas candies and Christmas ornaments. Candies were simple yet elegant, made out of thermocol. Kids happily painted the paper cups too for the next day. 

 

Day 3: Kids were really excited to decorate their painted paper cups and turn them into Christmas bells.

They had a lot of work as it included beading, pasting, tying ribbon bow etc. and finally bells looked awesome!

                           

After finishing the bells, I gave them some Ice cream sticks to paint and this was a surprise as I didn't tell them what they were going to make from those painted ice cream sticks.

Day 4:  Today's day was really very busy for the kids. They came in, settled down and I was wondering why all were so quite. Suddenly one of them said; "Roohi Aunty, we are enjoying our crafts very much and would like to do all the crafts that you've selected for us.....that is why we don't want to waste our time in talking to each other". What else could one wish for more than this. 

They coloured their Santa pics and made book marks, made reindeer from brown painted sticks and got down to the beautiful photo frames.

Day 5: Today was the last day of our workshop. We quickly started our work as we were making another two crafts today. We made a New Year Banner and a moving Snowman picture.

With this we came to an end of our workshop. Kids were happy and so were their parents and so was I.

Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year to all of you!

Happy Crafting

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