A to Z Crafts - O for Octopus

We did a session on Jellyfish for our letter J lesson, so while choosing the craft for this "O for octopus" lesson, I hope the craft does not end up similar to the one we did on Jellyfish.

O for Octopus

What you'll need:
1) A toilet roll
2) A button
3) A pair of scissors
4) Marker pen

Instruction:
1) Cut the bottom of the toilet roll as the arms of octopus, as shown in the picture below, it should be 8 arms only.
2) Use the marker pen to draw the eyes.
3) Paste the button at the centre as the nose
4) You may colour the toilet roll if you want to.

Little boy playing with his new friend, Mr Octopus.....

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 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

12) L for Lion

13) M for Mickey Mouse

14) N for Necklace

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A to Z Crafts - N for Necklace

I've done this craft with my girl before in my fun class, which I find it quite fun and easy to do, thus I did it again with my son. Basically, you just need a string and some macaroni.

N for Necklace

What you'll need:
1) A string (preferably elastic)
2) Macaroni
3) Water colour (optional)

Instruction:
1) Paint the macaroni (if you prefer it to be colourful)
2) Let the kid thread the macaroni with a string
3) Tie it with a knot

 The necklace done:

The kids enjoyed playing with the macaroni.

I did not colour the macaroni, because those macaroni were our lunch the next day! Don't worry, I did wash the macaroni before cooking.....lol!

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 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

12) L for Lion

13) M for Mickey Mouse

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A to Z Crafts - M for Mickey Mouse!

I wanted to do a craft of a cartoon character that they are familiar with, definitely not going to do anything related to 'monkey' since they've done it so many times already. I came across this very cute Mickey Mouse made from toilet roll, which is easy to do, and easy to associate with my letter M lesson.

M for Mickey Mouse 

What you'll need:
1) Toilet roll
2) Black, white and red paper
3) Button
4) Water colour
5) Glue


Instruction:
1) Paint the toilet roll with black water colour, leave aside to dry.
2) Cut the shape of the head (with ears) out from the black paper
3) Cut the shape of the face out from the white paper
4) Paste the cut outs to the toilet roll (after dried)
5) Paste the red paper (cover half of the toilet roll) to the toilet roll, do your measurement.
6) Paste the button.
7) Draw the eyes, nose and mouth.

Done!

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 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

12) L for Lion

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A to Z Crafts - L for Lion

I had been thinking what to do for this lesson L, and I found this cute lion craft from the web made using toilet rolls (yes, I've lots of toilet rolls!). It was also easy for the kid to associate letter L to Lion, and also easier to prompt him in spelling the word.

L for Lion 

What you'll need:

1) 1 piece of paper plate
2) Cut out of the ears and tail from white paper
3) Cut out of the wiskers, eyes, nose, hair on the tail from black paper
4) 1 toilet roll
5) water colours

6) Glue

Instruction:
1) Paint the toilet roll, paper plate and the white paper cut outs and leave it to dry.
2) Paste the cut outs to the paper plate as shown in the picture.

Kids like painting mostly. See my two littles were so focusing on their work. 

This the finished product, aren't they cute?

This is the glue I shared on my facebook, it can really hold the artwork together.

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may referhere 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 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

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A to Z Crafts - K for King

What is the most important item to a king? That would of course be the crown right?!

In this K for King lesson, we were making a crown. The crown were used in the role play for the lesson on letter K.

K for King

What you'll need:
1) 1 piece of card
2) 1 rubber bands
3) Crayon or colour pencils
4) A pair of scissors


Instruction:
1）Cut the shape of the crown from the card, like the one you see in the picture below. Draw the ornaments on the cut out.

2) Staple a rubber bands at the two sides of the card to join the crown up.

 Little king playing with his crown.

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 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

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A to Z Crafts - J for Jellyfish

In this lesson, we are making a Jellyfish from a plastic container.

The finished product will look something like this, isn't it cute?

J for Jellyfish

What you'll need:
1) 1 piece of plastic container (those you get when you buy back the food from hawker centre, if you really can't find it, you may use a transparent plastic cup)
2) 1 small piece of white paper for the eyes
3) Red and blue (or any other colours) colour transparent gift paper, I got mine from Daiso at $2 for 3 big piece in a pack.
4) Marker pen
5) A pair of scissors
6) Glue

Instruction:
1) Cut the red transparent paper into small pieces, about 1x1 inches.
2) Cut the blue transparent paper into strips as the tentacles of the jellyfish.
3) Put glue inside the container
4) Paste the red transparent paper cut in number (1) above inside the container
5) Paste the blue transparent paper cut in number (2) above at the side of the container, as the tentacles
6) Cut 2 ovals and draw the black eyes on it, paste it on the container
7) It is done. You may hang it up, it looked great with a light bulb hang inside the container.

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 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

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A to Z crafts - I for Insect! Making Bee from Egg Shell

This is a very cute craft, I found the picture of this little cute bee and decided to make it on our "I for insect" lesson.

I for Insect

What you'll need:
1) 1 piece of egg shell (prepare more if you are doing a few types of insect)
2) 1 small piece of white paper for the wings
3) 1 small piece of black paper for the stripes
4) Marker pen
5) A pair of scissors
6) Water colours
7) Glue

Instruction:
1) Colour the egg shell with yellow and leave it to dry
2) Cut the white paper in round shape and fold it for the wings
3) Cut the black colour stripes, you'll need 2 stripes to be pasted on the egg shell
4) Draw the eyes, mouth on the egg shell after the colour is dried
5) Paste the wings and stripes on the egg shell

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 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

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