26 October 2009
Making: Styrofoam Tortoise
Category : Activities for kids, Arts & Crafts Permalink
I’ve been wanting to post arts and crafts activity ideas for the longest time.
The photos are all there, but somehow the entry keeps getting postponed.
Anyway.
Here’s one today, ie. when Vai and I made our little tortoise out of styrofoam bowl!
What we used:
- One styrofoam bowl
- Carton (eg. rather thick paper, recycled cereal box)
- Coloured Paper (for the patterns on the tortoise’s shell)
- Crayons
- Scotch tape, scissors and glue
- Using paper from Vai’s ‘drawing book’, I cut out hexagon shapes, the ‘four legs’, one triangle (for the tail), and a shape for the tortoise’s head (see image below on how I cut and folded it)
What we did:
- Using coloured paper, I cut out hexagon shapes (to stick on the coloured shell later)
- Vai then coloured the styrofoam bowl with his green crayons (btw, I love this brand called ‘Titi‘. It’s so easy to apply. Okay, it smudges, but I still love the ‘thickness’ of each stroke!)
After some time, Vai told me how his fingers were getting ‘tired’ of colouring the bowl, hehe. So I helped and covered most of the bowl with the green crayon, and let him do the final touches.
- Vai then glued the hexagon shapes onto the ’shell’
- We used scotch tapes and stuck the legs, tail and ‘already-folded head’ onto the ‘inside’ of the bowl
- Vai drew the eyes and mouth on the tortoise’s head
And that’s it!
PS: Vai placed a little red sharpener below the tortoise just before I took the shot above. It’s the tortoise’s BABY, he said!
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Posted by crazymommy
27 October 2009 @ 10:32 am
This is so cute! I will have to find some time to do it with my children. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by Leonny
28 October 2009 @ 12:18 am
crazymommy:
Hi there …
and when you do make one I’d love to seeee please … 
drop me a note or something ya … I’ll check it out! 
Posted by 4malmal
29 October 2009 @ 8:55 am
this is lovely
Posted by astri
29 October 2009 @ 3:18 pm
hai mbak..
love reading your post
especially when the kids doing their creative thing
just asking, at what age you introduce this activity (making craft and painting) for the first time?im planning to do it also with my 1,3 year-old girl..
thank you mbak
Posted by Leonny
6 November 2009 @ 5:36 pm
Astri:
hello mbak … thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment ya …
From what I noticed, when Vai was 13 month old and I introduced him to clay play, he was engaged in the activity (meaning, he could actually concentrate and ‘do it’ , instead of seeing the clay as something to put inside his mouth heheh)
Here’s the link :
http://www.oureverydaythings.com/2007/10/poke-and-press/
You can also check out these links ya for ideas:
http://www.oureverydaythings.com/category/arts-and-crafts/
http://www.oureverydaythings.com/category/activities-for-kids/
Have fun mbak