A to Z Crafts - G for Giraffe! Make your own 3D art!

3D or foam art is quite popular among the kids now, parents buy it because it is relatively cheap (around $1.50 to $3.50 per piece) and easy to do. But instead of buying, I decided to make my own.

It is very easy and cost saving to make your own 3D art / card, you may use a photo paper as an alternative to the foam.

G for Giraffe

What you'll need:
1) 2 pieces of photo papers
2) A colour printer
3) Double sided tape
4) cardboard (you may cut it from used carton box)
4) A pair of scissors

Instruction:
1)  Search for a colourful picture from the Internet, print it out on the photo papers.
For me I selected the following picture:

2) You will need to print two copies of the picture, one as the base and the other one for the upper layer.
As we only need a few objects for the upper layer, I took away the background colour of the picture to save my cartridges.

3) Cut out the objects that you would like to paste on the upper layer.
4) Paste a layer of cardboard below the cut-outs, to create the 3D effect when it is pasted on the picture.
The materials done:

5) Let the kid paste the cut-outs to the picture. They could do it like solving a puzzle, give the kid some hints on those small objects.

6) The 3D picture done:

 See his funny faces with his Giraffe 3D art!

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.


List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree
2) B for Bear

3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

This section will be updated continuously as and when I have new crafts idea for them. Do like my Facebook page "learn the fun way" to get more updates.

A to Z Crafts - F for Flowers Wreath

Most of the eggs sold in grocery shops are packed by plastic tray nowadays, but you can still get the egg carton easily if you purchase one big tray of eggs (around 30 pieces). I got mine from NTUC.

F for Flowers Wreath

What you'll need:
1) One egg carton
2) Water colour paints
3) One white card (the size will depend on how big is the flower wreath)

Instruction:
1) To start with, you need to cut the egg carton into something like this:

2) You may trim the edge of the cut out to be like this:

3) Or you may leave it like this for some variance to the pattern of the flowers.

4) For those small cut out, you may use it as leaf.

5) After which, colour the cut outs with water colours. Try to use a few combination of colours.

6) Leave the coloured 'flowers' aside to dry, it would probably take half a day.
7) Cut the white card into a circle, I use the diameter of about 12 inches.
8) Paste the 'flowers' on the side of the white card.
9) You may decorate it with some writing.

 The kids were happy with their flowers wreath, but it was hard to get them pose properly with it:

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.


List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree
2) B for Bear

3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

This section will be updated continuously as and when I have new crafts idea for them. Do like my Facebook page "learn the fun way" to get more updates.