Making Batik Fabric with Crayons. This is a great way to make your own brightly colored batik fabric using crayons!
A vintage craft come to life! I’m always looking through my vintage craft magazines for fresh ideas, and every now and then I pick one and run with it. As a quilter, I’ve always had a preference for batik fabrics. I love the vibrant colors! Well, if you have been following my blog for any time, you probably already know that I love me some color. Now before I go any further, I’m betting there was probably an easier way to do this. Are you new to the Sitcom? For this project I used: Several boxes of crayons from the dollar store 100% Cotton fabric (light color)Fabric Spray Dye (black)Black Fabric Pen Cheap paintbrushes Muffin Tin Deep Dish Griddle Newspaper Iron First, I cut the light fabric into two 12” squares. Okay, now we get into where I had to do some edits on my instructions.
They took about 5 minutes to melt. Lay your fabric on aluminum foil to prevent the wax from going through to your counter. Origami: Jumpin' Frog Origami Printable. Chinese Fan Craft. This cute Chinese fan makes a good craft for a China theme or perhaps during the summer.
Choose a pretty design like our butterflies, or perhaps decorate with Chinese characters for something a little more dramatic! You will need: A piece of paper about 1m by 20cm. Fax paper is ideal (we were fortunate enough to find an old Venetian blind which came ready pleated)Two wide popsicle sticksPVA (white) glueSticky tapeColouring pens Decorate your paper with the pens. Pleat the paper into folds about 1 1/2cm wide. Glue a popsicle stick onto each end of the paper. Tape the bottom of the fan together. To open your fan, bring the popsicle sticks all the way round so that they meet. Handprint Dragon. Five handprints combined with some paper shapes (cut out using our template) produce this fantastic, fierce dragon - a fantastic craft for Chinese New Year or a China theme, a fairy tale theme, or even St George's Day or St David's Day.
You will need: Coloured paper Handprint dragon template (below) Glue Small white circle stickers Black pen Large sheet of paper Print our template out onto card. Cut out and use it to draw and cut out a head, mane, tail and two legs from coloured paper. Draw around your hand 5 times on coloured paper, and cut out. Variation: 1. 2. Origami Kusudama Flower Folding Instructions - How to make an Origami Kusudama Flower. Kusudama (translated as "medicine ball") were traditionally used as incense and poutpurri, from real flowers or herbs.
Decorative kusudama are made by using folded paper origami units glued together. These instructions show how to make a simple kusudama flower. Twelve (12) of these flowers can be glued together to make a ball. Made this origami? Comment and Submit your photo using the comment box at the end of this page! You can watch our origami kusudama flower video instructions, or check out the step-by-step photos below. Origami Kusudama Flower Step 1: Start with a 6 inch x 6 inch (15cm x 15cm) square origami paper, color side down. Fold paper in half on the horizontal diagonal axis. Origami Kusudama Flower Step 2: Now fold both the right and left corners to the top. Origami Kusudama Flower Step 3: Now fold the edge BD onto the edge DE.
Repeat on the left side: Repeat the squash fold on the left side: Origami Kusudama Flower Step 5: Fold down both tips. Page 1. Teacher's Corner.