Coconut Shell Crafts

In India majority of the people know the benefits of coconut and its water. Mainly in Kerala, they use coconut very much in their daily food recipes. We can make many crafts items with coconut shell with little patience and time. Today I am going to show you how to make coconut shell into a beautiful show piece or coconut shell craft item.

Coconut Shell Crafts

Things Required:

Coconut Shell

Metallic Acrylic Paints

Color Paper

Glue

Kundans or Chumkees

Glitter Glue

Take half the coconut shell and clean it with sand paper or rub it on the rough surface to make it smoother. Make sure to have round shape shell and glue the water can lid for base of the shell. Then paint it with metallic acrylic paints to give beautiful and shining look. Let it dry for one full day.

Coconut Shell Crafts

Next take the color paper and cut it into equal pieces. Using each slit make a nice roll and shape it like a flower. Now glue these flowers one by one to the base of the coconut shell. When you paint the shell do it on both in and out sides. On the border decorate it with kundans or chumkees and draw some designs on top of the shell with glitter glue.

Now place some sand or rice in the coconut shell craft and fix flowers in it. Here is a beautiful coconut shell craft ready. I hope you like it. Share your suggestions and comments

Paper Crafts for Kids

Kids will learn things by seeing and doing and they do remember the things which were learned through making. For that reason, all the schools were bringing changes in their teaching methods. From the initial stage of kids schooling, majority of the schools have come up with lots of crafts and fun activities like paper crafts, drawing etc. 

Today I am going to make paper craft for kids. By making traffic signal with paper, we can teach and make them to remember kids about the importance of it.

Traffic Signal Making
with paper 

Required things: 

Black Construction Paper

Color Papers

Glue

Scissors

First we have to take the black construction paper and cut it into two rectangular shapes. One piece with length 30cm and width 15cm, the other piece with length 45cm and width 5cm. The first piece will be used as box of the lights and the other one as pole. 

Next take the color papers of red, yellow and green. Draw one circle on each color paper with equal size and cut them neatly. Now glue the three circles on first rectangular construction paper piece with order red, yellow and green. After that glue the other rectangular construction paper at the end of the first one. Finished making traffic signal with paper.

Basic Scrap Book Making for Kids

Scrap book making is very interesting and fun thing for kids. They always wanted to do it. I have made scrap book on animals for kids as a school project. So here is a procedure how to make simple and basic scrap book

for kids.

Things we need:

Scissors

Colour Paper

Glitter Glue

Gum

Stones

Stapler

Pins

Stars

Coming to the procedure initially I took the three color papers and cut them into square shape. The remaining paper I used for making paper flower to decorate it. Take the photos of three animals which you like and cut them according to your requirement.  Now paste them on color paper.

The remaining color paper strips were drawn circle shape in different sizes and cut them.  Fold the circle into half as semicircle then fold again into half repeat once more.  Now you will get cone shape. On the curve side cut small trial shape piece and open it. Then it will be look like a star. So do the same process with other circles too. You can also directly draw and cut the flower petal shape if you are familiar with drawings. 

For kids the above method of making paper flowers will be easy to do. Make as many flowers as you want. Three sizes flowers will be pasted one on other with glue. Make sure to paste them according to the sizes in decreasing order. In the middle glue and paste any button or stone for shining.

Stick this paper flower on one corner and write some information or caption about the picture. Edges of the photo were outlined with glitter glue and let it dry completely. Finally stick stars here and there for better look. I have made three pages for my scrap book with three different animal photos and stapled those three pages as one.