Jingle Bells - Christmas Workshop 2013 @ Roohi's Collection.

At Roohi's Collection, it is my aim to keep the crafts simple and children friendly. With the same intention, I selected the crafts for my Christmas Workshop for 2013. This workshop was unique and interesting because children did EVERYTHING on their own. Right from cutting papers, boards and ribbons to finishing their crafts with embellishments etc.

Craft 1: Sugar Candy Bookmarks

Craft 2: Christmas Tree. Small Christmas Trees were made by the kids to decorate their own study tables. Children were given half a sheet of chart paper and they had to cut out a semi circle from it. They were then asked to join both the ends of the semi circle to form a cone. After they finished pasting their cones, they had to stuff their cones with shredded papers....I think that was the best activity. After filling the cones, kids were supposed to cover the base with a circle to form a sturdy base. Then I gave them a long piece of green Christmas weed with which they had to cover their cones. Last but not the least, they decorated the trees with thermocol beads, flowers and star shaped bows.....and here you go....Christmas tree is ready to adorn your tables!

Craft 3: A very simple craft. Take a paper plate and cut a ring from it. Take artificial plastic leaves and stick around the ring. Tie a red coloured bow on it and decorate your wreath with embellishments. Simplest wreath ever!!!

Craft 4: Santa Snow Globes.

Easy to make Santa Snow Globes were created by recycling empty glass jars. 

Paper Plate Wreath Craft

Here’s a paper plate wreath craft - A simple and festive Christmas Wreath craft activity is enough for toddlers and preschool children to make. All you need is a paper plate, paint, fingers and a little imagination!

So, what are you waiting for?  Let’s craft a Paper Plate Christmas Wreath!

Craft items you will need:

• Paper plate
• Dark Green paint
• Big red colour ribbon bow
• Light Green coloured paper leaves
• Scissors
• Hole puncher
• Cello tape

Craft instructions:

Using scissors, have the children cut a hole in the center of a paper plate.

Next, have the children paint the paper plate ring in green. Let it dry.

Then, Decorate the wreath, with Big red bow in the centre and green coloured leaves all around.

Let dry.

And, voila! The children have now made a paper plate wreath craft for Christmas!  

What a colorful and festive Christmas craft activity for kids.

Regards

Roohi's Collection

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

Roohi's Collection