9 July 2009
Making : Milk Carton Buildings
Category : Crafts & Activity Ideas for Kids Permalink
Gee. I just checked. The last time I posted an ‘Arts and Craft’ post was way back in May!
Not that we stopped doing arts and crafts stuff at home, because we still do. But somehow I think there seems to have been so many other topics that I wrote about and I simply didn’t get around to sharing more about the crafting stuff we do.
Oh well. Anyway.
Here’s one quick-yet-great crafting idea that you can try and make!
Milk Carton Buildings!
What you need :
- Used milk cartons
- Coloured Paper
- Glue, scissors, crayons
What we did :
- Cut the milk carton (see top picture), leaving the top part a little longer than the bottom part
- Cover the sides with coloured paper (to create ‘different buildings’ use different coloured paper)
- Glue the ‘buildings’ to each other (see the picture above)
- Cut bits of different shapes and stick them on as windows, doors, etc
- Cut out the ‘doors’ so they can be opened and closed
- If the child can already write, let him/her name the kind of buildings they’ve just made
And THAT IS IT!
Anya created a house and a museum, while Vai … well, he’s just happy enough to have created buildings where he could drive his little toy cars in and out of the doors!
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Posted by Chris
10 July 2009 @ 8:47 am
Niiiiiiice! That was cute!
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Posted by 4malmal
10 July 2009 @ 11:04 am
hey this is so simple! I love the idea
Rachel
http://www.4malmal.com
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Posted by Asianmommy
10 July 2009 @ 12:07 pm
How totally cute!
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Posted by siska
11 July 2009 @ 12:08 pm
pura pake packaging lain utk ekspor kali yah? Kok pura disini lain packagingnya. Tadinya gw pikir mgkn sgp jg ada pura sndr. Tp gw baca fresh australian milk
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Posted by Nic
11 July 2009 @ 8:53 pm
Very cute houses! I like them cos they look so imperfect…so kiddy!
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Posted by Joyce
12 July 2009 @ 11:39 am
Thanks for the simple yet great idea. I realised that I stopped doing art work with my kids since no 3 came. Will try this activity with 3 of them.
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Posted by Gwen
13 July 2009 @ 10:28 am
I like this! One could make a whole town!!
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Posted by Leonny
14 July 2009 @ 12:07 am
Chris :
Thanks uncle Chris
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4malmal:
I like how it’s so easy to make too!
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Asianmommy:
hehe … Thanks
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Siska :
Pura Milk here has chinese characters on the packaging, so my guess is that they dedicate a specific packaging for export purposes (works better for the Asian market, I guess)
Pura’s price is more expensive than the selling price in Australia though! (anyway, in general, milk prices here - regardless of their brand - are much higher anyway compared to the Australian milk prices)
I love its taste but I’d always wait till they’re on sale haha …
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Posted by Leonny
14 July 2009 @ 12:12 am
Nic :
Till today they sit in our living room and Vai keeps taking them off our living room unit and plays with them!
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Joyce :
Hey … how nice that’ll be if you get to do these arts and crafts works with the 3 kids!
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Gwen :
Exactly! I love how you can continue to ‘add on’ to the existing ones and create your very own town!
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