Art & Craft for Boys - Idea 2

Making a River

materials:
Water colour
Brush
Glue
Scissors
Unwanted carton boxes/cardboard
Scrape paper

Method:
1. Fold the cardboard/carton to form a wide river with banks at both sides.
2. Get your child/children to paint the river and banks.
3. Draw shapes of grass, cut out and get your child to paint them in colours like yellow, brown, light green and dark green. Paint both sides - so may have to wait for one side to dry first before working on another side.
4. After everything is dried, paste/glue the grass at the side of the river banks. Get your children to do the pasting.
5. Crumble 2 pieces of unwanted paper to form rocks (this is an idea by my son). Paint them. After they are dried, paste them in the river - you may need to use double sided tape if the glue doesn't hold.

Now it is done! My sons put the soldiers on the rocks. They said the soldiers are watching the crocodile.

Watch this space - I will show you how to make some trees & coconut trees to be put on the river banks. Happy crafting and painting with your children!

Art & Craft for Boys - Idea 1

Here to share with you some ideas of art & craft for boys as young as 3. It's fun to do this together with your children.

How to make 3D crocodile:
Materials:
hard cardboard (recycled cardboard eg unwanted boxes or small cartons).
scissors
water colours
brush

Method:
1. You have to draw the body shape of a crocodile (with sharp teeth and tail)
2. Draw the 2 legs in hemi-oval shape.
3. Cut out the shapes.
4. Get your children to paint the shapes (both sides) in whatever colour they like (even it is not a crocodile colour). They may need to paint one side first and then wait for it to dry before painting the other side.
5. Once the colour on both sides is dried, cut approx 2cm in height near the head and tail respectively (from bottom up).
6. Cut approx 2cm in height in the middle of the legs (from top to bottom).
7. Slide the legs to the body and you will get this:



I will share with you in my next post on how to make a river when the crocodiles can swim in it!