Craft Activities for Kids

Face Painting – Introduction – Face painting is some of the best fun you can have – you can turn yourself into anyone or anything you wish. With the help of the paints in the box you can make yourself look funny, sad or scary. In this book we show you how to make yourself up into different people and …

बच्चों के अंदर बचपन से ही कई तरह के शौक पैदा हो जाते हैं। यदि ये शौक अच्छे हों तथा इन्हें पूरा करने के लिए माता-पिता का पूर्ण सहयोग मिल जाए तो यह जिंदगी का अहम हिस्सा बन जाते हैं। ऐसा ही शौक पाल रखा है लुधियाना जिले के कस्बा दोराहा के 13 वर्षिय राहुल विनायक ने जिसे ओरीगैमी के …

Vinegar Volcano – Things Reqiured: Red Food Color, Vinegar, 2 Small Plastic or Glass Bottles, Funnel, Bicarbonate of Soda (Bicarb), Large Colored Plate, Sand, Glue (Fevicol), Colored Paper, Pencil, Scissors, Sticky Tape. Fizzy Gas Everything is made of chemicals. And all chemicals are made of tiny particles called atoms. During a chemical reaction, one group of atoms are shuffled and …

The Redskin Chief – This is a lovely costume that should not be beyond any boy’s powers to make. First of all, let us start on the head dress. Make the headband of still linen, 4 in. wide and folded over in two, and ironed down the centre, with a strip of ¼ in. elastic tacked on the inside. The …

The Tambourine – Whilst on the subject of drums it would be interesting to show how that attractive but rather noisy tambourine can be made. Get one of those cardboard cores that are inside rolls of linoleum and have this cut down to about 2 in. in depth. Sandpaper the edges so that they are quite smooth and gently round …

Tin Can Rattle – This useful and certainly very noisy rattle can be made from an old fruit tin, a piece of wood and something round to create the noise. It is very simple form of rattle but can be most effective in use.This is how it is made. Get a round tin and thoroughly clean this and cut off …

Trick Caricature Face – How would you like to make hundreds of caricatures of a face without possessing any artistic ability of any kind? Few have this gift or talent for caricaturing but with the help of the little trick chain face, you will be able to form the oddest and most extraordinary expressions on an entirely self-made head. You …

The Marionette Figure – Marionettes have been giving us pleasure for centuries. Those quaint little figures are full of life and realism and can be so very entertaining. The figures can, of course, be bought from shops but they are extremely expensive. Why not make the skeleton of a marionette figure, so that you can dress this up to suit …