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.
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 .
I saw this craft a long time ago and thought it would be good to do with Hasan. It's pretty simple and I've seen it on numerous websites . The hardest thing for Hasan was waiting for the paint to dry. We completed it in two days because Bilal woke up early from his nap after Hasan was done painting.
I've always wanted to do some craft with Hasan with Toilet Paper Rolls. I have a bunch just sitting around thinking of something to do with them. Recently I received Easy Fun Crafts with Everyday Items as a gift. They had a picture of a butterfly made using a toilet paper roll. Looked simple and it also used a pipe cleaner which I have so many of but have no idea what to do with them.
I feel so horrible. Hasan made this for his teacher. For the first 2 months of Senior Kindergarten he has had a supply teacher. I was taking pictures for the blog of this dish. I wanted to try to get rid of the shadows and while I was doing this I dropped the camera on the dish. I am so upset. I can't believe I did that. I've tried gluing it together but it looks horrible and is not staying together. I think Hasan is going to be upset. We have no time to make a new dish and no time to go shop for something else.....