Hello Friends , Welcome back to my blog!! How are you all doing?? My little one who is now 2 years is keeping me busy that I get very little time to craft. This project is very special to me as me and my daughter together teamed up to make this for my husband's birthday.



PROCESS:
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
1. Styrofoam balls ( I have used 2.5 inches balls)
2. Paper cup
3. flowers ( punched/ readymade)
4. Embellishments for decoration - craft pearls, lace , streamers etc
5. Hot glue gun
6. Cardstock or pattern paper



These cupcakes are easy to make and are ideal as a gift . They are also cute  as a desk-top decoration.  I followed the tutorial of Miranda ( she has a video tutorial on this project)  to make this project. Check out her blog for some amazing projects here.

Cut the styrofoam balls into half using an exacto knife. For the base of the cup cake measure 2 inches from the bottom of the paper cup and cut it.
Cut a piece of cardstock measuring 12 inches by 2 inches. Using a scoring tool score at every 1/4 inch. Fold back and forth ( accordion fold) and glue it around the paper cup .

Hello friends, welcome to my blog!! Today am sharing with you all a cas card made using paper mosaic technique.



I havent done any card for almost an year. This week's challenge theme in casology and freshly made sketches compelled me to do this card.The challenge theme being abstract I was searching about some abstract art ideas and was really interested upon this mosaic art. I haven't tried this so far and that interested me to try it out. Since its easter season and my daughter is all into eggs now made an egg mosaic card.


. Initially painted all the colors of rainbow upon a piece of watercolor paper. Then cut an egg shape using black cardstock. Cut the painted sheet into small abstract shapes and glued them upon the black cardstock.
See you soon with another interesting post!!

Submitting this to:
1.Casual fridays
2.freshly made sketches

3. Casology challenge

Hello friends, welcome to m blog!! Today am sharing with you all four different types of earrings made using pom- poms.



When I was searching for pom-pom activities for my toddler I came across the idea of using them to make earrings , from pinterest. Since the weather is slowly getting warmer wearing these whimsical earrings are so much fun. So saved a few small pom-pom's from my daughter's stash and made these earrings.

These are very simple and easy to make. The main thing is to insert the headpin/eyepin through the pom - pom correctly. I found an easy way to do it from the site Honestlywtf. 



For this earring I have used blue beads and small blue pom - pom s


 I made a pair of hoop earrings using black pom- pom, black crystals and beads,


For this earring I used white seed beads danglers.

I used medium size pom-pom s and white pearls in this earring.


This is the assorted size pom pom pack I bought from walmart.

Hope you all like these designs. See you soon!!

1. ACTIVITIES USING POM- POM

Muffin tray color sort:
You can use empty egg cartons instead of muffin tray. This improves problem solving skills.


2.  ACTIVITIES WITH COLOR BALLS:
I got this pack of  100 plastic balls from amazon . My daughter loves throwing balls all around the house and these colorful ones are her favorite.

Paper cup basketball:
Covered the paper cup with color card stock and she has to drop the respective color ball in the cup. Though she is still learning to sort colors she loves to drop the ball into the cup.


Yogurt container ball sort:
I took 3 yogurt containers and covered them with color card stock and my daughter has to fill the container with the color of the container. She is still learning to do this so she completes this activity with my help. For her the fun part is to throw the balls once the container becomes full.


Cardboard box ball drop:
Of all the three ball activities this is her most favorite. Made holes in the packaging cardboard using exacto knife and she drops not only balls but even some of her favorite toys into it

3. PIPE CLEANERS AND BASKET:
This is the activity I give her when I prepare dinner or wash vessels. She will try to insert the pipe cleaners into the hole one by one and then remove everything . An excellent activity which improves fine motor as well as hand eye co-ordination.

4.STRAWS AND YOGURT CONTAINER:
Take an empty yogurt container and make holes small enough to insert straws into it. The pushing and pulling action improves fine motor skills


5.  ACTIVITIES USING POPSICLE STICKS AND RUBBER BANDS:
I bought a pack of 100 popsicle sticks at the dollar tree. For the first activity I will give her a few popsicle sticks and rubber bands. She has to put the rubber band onto the stick. This develops her problem solving skills.



This is her favorite activity and she can do this even for half an hour without getting bored. I will tie the rubber bands around the stick and her job is to pull the band out. Initially I made just two loops so the band is loose enough for her to remove. Now she is able to do more challenging task of removing a band tightly wrapped around two sticks together. Sometimes she tries to slide the band out and other times she pulls the band. Either way it will improve her problem solving skills.




After she learnt shapes through magnets decided to try the same for teaching colors. So covered the popsicle sticks with color card stock and attached magnetic tape at the bottom. Took a white sheet and glued the strips of colored card stock. I bought a cookie sheet so that we can play with the magnets even when we are travelling. But more than the cookie sheet she loves to stick them upon the fridge. She learnt the colors quickly and matches with the colors on the sheet. Since I didn't include black and white color she is not very familiar with those colors.