Fun fact of the day…
Children grow faster in the spring .
http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/growing/childs_growth.html
A simple snowflake
This year is my first year away from my parents house at Christmas time, of course I will be there for Christmas, but the time before I will be at my apartment so I thought I should do some decorating. And obviously I have a great mum because she knew that I wanted to get a tree but I really didn’t have too much extra money. She went and found me a tree, it is being delivered tomorrow! Anyways I am excited but still money, not too much money to buy decorations or even ornaments… Kinda sucks, but I am just going to make some.
So tonight I made a snowflake out of paper, now I know what you are saying, that is really nothing new. Well this one I must say is pretty, and not that hard to make! When I first saw it, I thought I will never be able to make this, unless I focused and struggled, but oh my goodness, not the case at all. Its is really simple. Any ways here is how I made it…
So first you want to cut out a square
From your square(top) you want to fold it diagonally (on the right), then again (on the bottom).
From that you want to cut a few strips into one side, but do not cut all the way across!!
Now I am sure that you can do less strips or more if you would like.
Then open it up
This is probably the trickiest part, and it is not that bad
So what you want to do is take the two matching corners and you can either staple them on tape them together. I found that stapling held them better, and they didn’t pull or rip. You need to do this with each set of corners, start with one corner on one side, then flip the other to staple the corners so they are on the opposite side.
This is the first two corners stapled.
Once you have the first one done you are going to have to make five more!
Okay, once you made them all you are going to take the outer corner of each and staple them so that they are in a long line, now for this I taped it. But then had to staple them after because the tape was not sticking. Now this could be because my tape didn’t work so well. So definitely use what works for you.
So you should have six of these diamond shapes, stapled together, side to side. Now take them and wrap the side that are not attached and staple them, this will now turn into your snowflake.
Now for the middle part I chose to tape them together, you could do whatever works for you.
This was my first time making this, is it super easy, and looks really nice. Even my boyfriend liked it!
Let me know how it goes for you! And I think this will be ever a craft that kids could try!
What colour are you going to fill your apple in with?
Fun fact of the day…
There are 29 different shades of red crayola crayons.
http://www.vernonkids.com/cedarmountain/4thgradelinks/tests/crayola/crayolahistory.htm
Here is a craft you can make with crayons, very cool cannot wait to try it out. This can be done with kids, I am sure they would love it, just be extra careful because you have to use the blow dryer, so everything gets very warm.
http://lindseydanielladidit.blogspot.com/2011/09/melted-crayon-art.html
And here is another version of it!http://pinterest.com/pin/271438705/
Ages
I think it is very funny when children try and guess your age.
Last week they thought I was about 15, maybe 16.
This week 29, maybe 35….
Oh dear… they are either way low or way high.. 🙂
Mollie's Adventures 