Today Bilal made this Paper Bag Tree. I found this on Pikadilly Charm . It looked very simple to make. Bilal loved twisting the brown paper bag to make the branches. When he was done he wanted to add some red leaves to his tree.
It has been a long time since I posted something on this much neglected blog. Now that the winter holidays are here I need to keep the boys busy so I'm trying to get them to do some more arts and crafts.
Bilal's is on the left, Hasan's on the right. While we were clearing out my parents place in March I came across my mom's tin box full of buttons...I knew they would be great for some crafts for the boys.
Another snowman craft made my Hasan. I saw this idea on Crafts By Amanda . She also made children out of toilet paper rolls as well. They looked so cute I had to get Hasan to make one of them. I love her idea of how to make the earmuffs...very creative! This was the first time Hasan used the hot glue gun. Everything dried very quickly. We didn't paint the toilet paper roll because I wanted to finish this craft in one sitting.
Finally a post for this much neglected blog...I figure I'd better get this one up before winter is over. I have another snowman craft coming up after this too!
I bought Hasan some oil pastels a while ago and I've been lost on what to get him to do with them. I'm surprised that I even bought them because oil pastels were my least favorite thing to do in school...they were so messy. But now I have them so I should use them. After some googling I came across this idea on ehow.com .
When we started this craft we were supposed to be making these ladybugs but I didn't exactly remember how they were after we started the project. So this is what we ended up. Bilal made the three on the left and Hasan's are on the right. Bilal loved dipping his brush in different colours and making each one very colourful. Hasan stuck to one colour for each one. They both needed some help sticking the pipe cleaner in for the antennas. After they were all done Bilal loved scratching the googly eyes off and pulling out the pipe cleaners. Hasan's are still intact and sitting on the TV with his butterfly and octopus .