Clothes peg fish toy

Bird feeder from plastic can

Lava lamp how to make

What you need
An empty juice bottle
Water
Oil
Red food colouring liquid

How to make
Fill 1/3rd of the juice bottle with water. Fill up the remaining bottle with oil. Let the water and oil separate and settle. Add a few drops of red food colouring liquid. Wait for the water to get the red colour.

Now add drop pieces of any tablet into the juice bottle that would effervescence when put in water such as aspro clear tablet. Due to the bubbling nature of the tablet, the red bubbles can be seen moving in the juice bottle making a replica of a lava lamp.

Chalk Painting

What you need

Coloured chalks

How to make

Put the chalks in a zip lock bag and smash it so that it becomes powdery.

Place the powdered chalks in separate containers and mix it with some water until it becomes a paint consistency. Chalk paint is ready for use.

Use a brush and let your kids imagination be painted.

Marble race track - how to make

A fun way of making a marble track to keep your kids occupied  and enjoy

What you need:

A few toilet rolls
A basket
Some marbles

How to make:

Cut the toilet rolls into halves lengthwise and stick it on the wall in a pattern so that when you place the marble it slides around all the cut rolls and falls into a basket at the end. Your marble race track is ready.
You can also add some fancy stuff in between the tracks however you wish.

Kid's shop out Bag - how to make

What you need:

Hessian material (similar to Gunny bag)
Thick needle with big holes
Satin ribbon
Yarn to stitch

How to make:

Cut out two rectangles from the material and stitch them both together on the sides or cut out a long rectangle and fold it and stitch the sides.
Attach the satin ribbons as handle and your Bag is ready.

Let your Child stick what they like on the bag to decorate it or they can even paint on it.

What Keith says

Keith: When Girls die, they turn into Angels, what happens when Boys die? Do Boys turn into ghosts?

Keith: What are the good things in Water called? Criminals?
Me: Minerals!

3D Drawing - how to make

What you need:
A4 paper
Pencil
Phone camera


How to make:
On a paper draw n oval ball. Imagine a ray of light is falling on the ball from the left side and accordingly shade it. i.e. darker shadow on the right side of the ball and lighter shadow on the left side of the ball. On the bottom right of the ball, imagining further, draw a little shadow of the ball itself falling on the ground.
Now with a scissors cut out the white paper from the top half of the ball. Your drawing is now ready.
With your phone camera, view the drawing moving the phone around, you will get a 3D effect.

Balloon Bird - how to make

How to make:

Blow up two balloons with a knot. Tie them both together with another knot.
Cut out some eyes, beaks, feathers and legs for the Bird on a paper, colour them and stick it to the balloons with sticky tape or blu tak.

Your Balloon Bird is ready
 

Fancy Pen Holder - how to make

How to make:

Take a paper drinking cup. Cover it with an old colourful socks. Cut out the excess on the bottom of the cup. With a marker pen, draw some eyes and a smile and there you are, you have a fancy pen holder for your kids.

 If you want a handle to it, staple a piece of satin ribbon to it.

Car model - how to make

What you need:

An old box
Some buttons
A rubber
A few sticks or rod
An egg cartoon

How to make:

To the box pierce the sticks at the bottom of the box to the front side and back side.
Add the buttons to the stick as wheels
Cut out a rubber into small pieces and pierce it to the stick to stop the button wheel from falling down.

You can add seats to the car by cutting out an empty egg carton and placing them as seats.
Your model car is ready to play.

Minecraft sword - how to make

What you need
Cardboard
Colour paper

How to make
Draw squares on the coloured paper and cut them. By looking at the picture of a minecraft sword, place the squares in the shape of a diamond onto the cardboard. Glue the pieces and cut it out. Your minecraft sword replica is done.

Minecraft Steve Head - how to make

What you need

Printed copies of Steve Head
Cardboard box

How to make

Firstly print copies of Steve Head in a A3 size paper. You can google for minecraft steve head skin and print it out or print out the attached images.



Steve Left side



Steve Right side



Steve Top and Back

Steve Face

After you print it out and layout, this is how it will look:

Stick the papers onto a cardboard box. Cut some eyes and Steve's minecraft head is ready for your kid to play!!

 

Minions - how to make

What you need

Plastic egg shells

Googly eyes

Black marker pen

Some yarn for decorating hair

How to make

On the eggs draw a headband with black marker

Stick the Google eyes on the forehead

Draw some hair and mouth.

Stick some yarns on the head for hair

Your minion is ready!

Castle Cake

What you need:

Two sponge cakes
Ready made icing (choose blue or pink colour etc.)
Ice cream cones

How to make:

Place the sponge cakes one on top of each other. Can cut the cakes according to size needed. Spread the icing on them. Spread the icing on the ice cream cones as well and place them on the cakes.

Decorate them with some M&M's or sprinkles. For the doors and windows decorate with some wafer biscuits.

Your kids will enjoy it!

If you want to make icing by yourself, below is an easy basic icing recipe.

Basic icing recipe:

1 1/2 cups icing sugar mixture
25g melted butter
1 teaspoon milk or water for glossy effect
In a bowl mix them all and icing I ready.

Stuffed Teddy Toy - how to make

What you need:

An old t shirt
A teddy bear drawn n and cut out template to use

 

How to make:

Place the teddy bear template on the t-shirt and cut two pieces of teddy bears from  it.

Stich both the teddy's together leaving some open space for filling the teddy.

Stuff the teddy with cotton. If cotton not available, use tissue papers to stuff the teddy.

 After filling the teddy stich the open space also.

 

 Draw eyes, nose and mouth to make  your teddy ready to play.

Bubbles - how to make

How to make:

3 cups water
1/4 cup dishwashing liquid
3 pinch sugar

 Mix well in a container and blow away your bubbles

Gak (slime) - how to make

What you need:

Glue - 5 or 6 tbsps
Liquid detergent - 20 ml
Water - 2 tbsps
Food colours of your choice

 

 

 

 

How to make:

The estimates are a guestimate. You could add more or less to get the consistency required.

 

In a bowl add glue. Mix in the food colour with a spoon.

Add the water and mix in well.

Next add the liquid detergent and mix well with hand until slimy. Could pour away the excess water that stays in the bowl.

 

As the slime would be watery, leave it to dry for a while.

Gak is ready for playing.