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How do children make Christmas trees from pine cones?
“Good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us”. – Roy Adzak My little puzzles and I took a trip to the forest to collect nature’s beautiful gifts – pine cones, for our Christmas projects. Then we went with my son to his favorite decorating store. We purchased everything we needed to create our DIY art, including additional glues, paints, glitter, strings, pom-poms, and colored paper. When my son picks glitter colors, I notice a lot of Christmas stuff around. I stopped next to the shelf with front door decorations. These door decorations are made of plastic, green Christmas tree branches with plastic bells and…
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How do children prepare an Advent calendar?
“Christmas doesn’t come from the store. Christmas is family and a lot more time together”. There are signs of approaching winter in my village. Drivers struggle with frosted car windows, it gets slippery underfoot, and excited children look out for the first snow every day.My little puzzles slowly change autumn DIY projects into winter ones. And since winter is associated with the celebration of Christmas, we will start with a very simple, cheap but very meaningful craft which is The Advent Calendar. Being a parent myself, I know what the stories of having an advent calendar with sweets look like. My kids wanted chocolate every morning because a new day…
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What Christmas decorations do my children make from popsicle sticks?
We are two weeks away from Christmas. My little kids bring home Christmas decorations every day, which they make at school and Nursery. In children’s places, the Christmas tree is already decorated. In our home not yet, a slight delay this year. But we have more time to make decorations for the Christmas tree. For all those who, like us, have not yet managed to decorate the Christmas tree, we will create snowflakes and a Christmas tree from popsicle sticks. In addition, before Christmas, everyone is busy preparing Christmas dishes, shopping, and cleaning, so we leave the simplest and least labor-intensive projects for last. This is not our first DIY…
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How do children make pumpkin seed crafts?
“Change your imagination to a more colorful one, the colors of autumn leaves should match it perfectly.” Our last project was an autumn-themed one, involving Halloween decorations – specifically a scary pumpkin. As I mentioned earlier, the pumpkin should not only be associated with Halloween, but also with the many benefits it has. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/what-are-the-benefits-of-the-scary-pumpkin-design/ Our pumpkin seeds are a great food for birds. I eat them myself as a snack, or you can cook a delicious pumpkin cream. In today’s art, we will showcase another use of pumpkin seeds, namely in a decorative context. In the creative corner, my children are supposed to create a hedgehog out of pumpkin seeds and leaves. The autumn project, right? Dora was…
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How do children create decorations for light switches?
“EVERY CHILD IS AN ARTIST” Picasso It’s raining outside, my kids already are bored with lego towers. Also, little houses with blankets and pillows are no longer fun. Every room in my house looks like a landscape after a tornado, earthquake, and flood at the same time. This is the main reason why I take my children to the creative corner and share with you the “little puzzles” DIY project. What do the light switches look like in your home? Especially in the children’s room, where we have colorful curtains, bedding, carpet, and the rest of the furniture and only the light switches are original basic – not matching colour.…
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How do children make art from leaves?
“THE TIME CHILDREN SPEND IN NATURE IS NEVER WASTED TIME“ Summer vacation for you? Forget about it. My kids still need new activities every two minutes. Even though grandparents have a swimming pool, soccer field, sandbox, and hundreds of other attractions, all this is enough only for an interesting morning, and what about the afternoon and the rest of the day? Thanks to this DIY project, we will be looking for treasures in the backyard and we will find lots of ideas to create with these precious items. My children are lucky because they spend their holidays on farms. So each piece of grass hides treasures: feathers, leaves, pebbles, an…
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How do children create a butterfly and bat from wine corks?
“PAINTERS PAINT PICTURES WITH THEIR OWN HANDS, CHILDREN PAINT WITH ALL PARTS OF THE BODY AND EVERYTHING AROUND ”. Wine cork crafts are a great way to recycle corks. We can make any art from this product, any kind from animals to cartoon characters, fun little people, and other seasonal decorations. Those who like crafts and recycling will love DIY cork projects. Besides, you can easily find them at home, if not, contact your grandparents. They gave my children a big surprise when one day brought a whole jar of wine corks. This week, my daughter and I had the idea of creating an adorable butterfly from a wine cork. While my lovely, older son said: “It’s cute but for girls”…
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How do children create funny characters from yogurt bottles?
“GIVE CHILDREN FREEDOM THEN THEY WILL LEARN TO CREATE AND PLAY TOGETHER”. We’ll make something useful out of something tasty. I’ve already written about ice cream and using a popsicle stick to create airplanes. We combined delicious ice cream with creative fun, and the joy doubled. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/how-do-children-make-airplanes-from-popsicle-sticks/ Today, in the creative corner, my “little puzzles” will be making crafts from yoghurt bottles. In my example, I found empty bottles of Actimel or Activia yoghurt. The crafting process from yogurt bottles is very easy, and you can make simple patterns first. Little people from the bottle, that’s what my children started with. However, this simple form only amused my two-year-old daughter,…
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How do children make airplanes from popsicle sticks?
“ONLY THE KID’S VIVID IMAGINATION OPENS UP THE SECRET PLAY NOOK”. Some time ago I and my “little puzzles” shared with you the DIY art stone project I hope you already tried it with your children. If not, please see this project here https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/how-do-children-create-art-on-stone/. I also mentioned the upcoming summer season, which means that there are even more outdoor adventures with my small explorers. For my family, summer is the time for ice cream several times a day, even for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Our beloved ice cream means dirty faces and clothes too. Unfortunately, when all the ice is felt to the ground, an undesirable and inevitable accident can…
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How do children create art on stone?
Welcome back to the Do It Yourself project. Summer is approaching, days are warmer and it’s a reason to be longer outside. Hopefully, we can spend more time with our sweetie pea in the playground, park, or forest. As well for children is a time to discover nature, that’s why they usually disappear into the bush and search for precious things. My “little puzzles” never get bored looking for stones: small, big, round, oblong, and huge stones. The oversize rocks I left in the grass mostly, if children do not pay attention. At home, asked by my children: Where did the largest specimens disappear? I show a surprised face. After a few hours of exploring, my…
