Home made Candles

Candle White??  No, Candle Bright !!!

First we should collect all the broken bits of wax crayons that we can find and all the unusual shaped containers too. The inside of each container was greased with Vaseline to make it easy for to remove the candle later. The the candle would be put in first, making sure that it was longer than the height of the container !!
Ones the wax Crayons were melted the liquid was poured in to the container. We had to weight for each layer to dry and hard before we pour in the next.
 When the container was filled to the brim we were done. 
Before the candle cooled completely  we would ease to out of the container and carve out numbers or alphabets on the sides with a blunt knife.

Playing items

Jack in the box

Two stripes of Bristol board, 3/4"  × 20 " each in a nice color. Paste them together at right angles and keep on folding over each other alternately.
On the last section of the paper paint or fix a face of jack in the box. Press this down in to a prettily covered match box. When the box in open jack in the box pops up !!!!

Paper made Cards

Cards with Cloth Cut outs

Cut out shapes , free hand on cloth and paste the shapes on the card. With the use of contrasting colored materials and materials of different texture. Very nice pictures could be turned out. Also suitable for calenders and covers of scrap books etc.

Handy Crafts for Kids

Paper Necklace

1 inch squares of thick colored paper or Bristol board with a hole in the center of each square.
Colored drinking straws cut in half inch lengths.
Give the child a long needle with a course thread and let him threadle one inch paper squares and half in ch lengths of straw alternately.


Paper made Stars

4 stripes of stiff colored paper 6" × 1/4" . 12 gold papers centers about 1 inch on diameter, cut in a pretty pattern. 
Paste colored stripes as shown and paste the center and edge pieces on both sides of star.
Shape the tips and hang.


Farther Christmas

Take a semi circular piece of rather stiff red paper paste a small round of white paper for a face  little away from the straight edge. Mark eyes, nose , mouth on face. Paste some cotton wool in shape of beard. Put a belt and hat.
Fold back, two ends and paste or fasten together.


Paper chain

Half inch wide stripes of colored in a varity of colors. Paste at right angles to each other. Two stripes of the same color and fold over each other. 
Paste another two stripes of a different colored paper at the end of the previous stripes and continue folding over.
Pasting more colors in this manner.

You can find some crafts for kids, Some cards, soft toys, making candles, table tops and many more handy crafts....