DIY Tutorial: Babies and Toddlers Mother's Day Fingerprint Flower Art Frame

Miss Kwek and I did three fingerprint flower art frames for the upcoming Mother's Day! As you can guess, one for her paternal grandma and another for her maternal grandma. The last one is for my own keepsake!

The fingerprint flower art frame is relatively easy to carry out with common craft materials found at home.

Things Required:
1. Craft papers
2. Fingerpainting paint
3. Craft sticks
4. Ribbons
5. Glue/double sided tape
6. Photo Frame

Instruction:

1. Paint your baby's or toddler's palm with the fingerpainting paint. Guide them to press their painted palm onto craft papers. Do as many or as little till you are satisfied (or when babies and toddlers get irritated by the same action!)

2. On another bigger sheet of craft paper, I got Miss Kwek to use a heart pattern roller brush to randomly roll on for a touch of colour meant for the frame backdrop.

Alternatively, if you do not have a roller brush, you may get your baby/toddler to fingerpaint instead. Otherwise, backdrop may simply be make out of solid colour craft paper.

3. After the paint dried. I cut out the individual fingerprints. These fingerprint will act as the "flower". For the backdrop, I cut according to the frame size.

4. I double sided taped each craft stick "stem" and guided Miss Kwek to combine the fingerprints flower to its individual craft stick stem. Then, I tied a ribbon on each stem before taping the completed fingerprint flowers onto its respective backdrop.

5. Frame the finished fingerprint flower art up and its ready to be sent out!

Here, I used some decorative alphabet stickers to form the words "Happy Mother Day" before having them frame.

Hope you find this tutorial useful!

The fingerprint flower art frame makes a perfect gift for Mother's Day and also any other special occassions! Do give it a try!

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Today's DIY tutorial is a no-mess-easy-to-put-together sensory play idea for babies and toddlers. This sensory play idea can be put together with an endless different combination of materials. All you need is some book adhersive film (or contact paper) and whatever craft supplies you can find at home! Easy as 1-2-3!

I used some colour construction papers to cut into shapes (rectangle, triangles and square), and included some other items like pom pom balls, sequin confettis, yarns and ribbons for the different textures.

Next, I taped the book adhersive film, sticky side up, on a table before peeling off the protective sheet. 

 Miss Kwek had so much fun sticking and removing the various items from the sticky surface! This sensory play kept her entertained for a good half an hour! This is definitely one sensory play idea I will reuse in future.

Have you tried this idea before? Let me know how you feel about it! :)


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I chanced upon this idea here, and decided to craft with Miss Kwek, using paper plates and finger painting instead for Easter! It is a super easy and fun craft for babies and toddlers.

Things Required:
1. Paper Plate
2. Fingerpainting Paints
3. Marker
4, Scissor
5. Photograph
6. Ice cream Sticks (x2)
7. Scotch tapes/glue
8. Book Cover Adhersive Film (Optional)

Instructions:
1. Use marker to trace out the egg and egg cracks.

2. Cut out the egg and have it fingerpainted by toddler or have it decorated any way you desire.

3. Allow paint to dry before covering it with book adhersive film. This step is optional. I did it because my toddler just loves to destroy things. lol.

4. Cut egg via the crack lines into half.

5. Attached photograph to one side of the egg half and attach an ice cream stick on top of the photograph. Next, attach another ice cream stick on top of the first stick. I used the adhersive film to do all the attachments. You may choose to use glue or scotch tape instead.

6. Cut out a small strap of the paper plate edge and attach both corners to the other egg half.

7. Slot in the ice cream stick into the small strap of paper plate on the other egg crack half and you are done!

I have my ice cream stick sticking out on the top instead of the bottom because I want to have it displayed on the wall. This will allow the egg to remain attached together on the wall.

That's all for now. Hope you enjoyed it!

Happy Easter Everyone!


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After Miss Kwek came in contact and loved the sensory bottles at an indoor playground, I decided to made some sensory bottles myself for some sensory playtime at home.

Here are some of the bottles I made for her:

Galaxy Senosry Bottle

Things Required:
1. Plastic Bottle
2. Baby Oil
3. Water
4. Food Colouring
5. Glitters

Instructions:
1. Fill plastic bottle with Baby Oil till slightly more than half full.
2. Colour water with your desired food coloring and fill the remaining bottle till full.
3. Add the glitters and seal bottle.

Here I used black coloring to contrast gold glitters. Loved the effect!

Colourful Shaker Sensory Bottle

Things Required:
1. Plastic bottle
2. Colourful beads

Instructions:
1. Fill bottle with beads till about 1/4 to 1/3 full and seal bottle.

I used Colourful beads here. You may use rice or beans too. As long as when the bottle is shaked, it produces sound!

Sequins Confettis & Pom Pom Balls Sensory Bottle

Things Required:
1. Plastic Bottle
2. Sequins Confettis
3. Pom Pom Balls
4. Water

Instructions:

1. Fill as many sequins confettis and pom pom balls you desired.

2. Add water till bottle is full and seal bottle.

I used flower sequins confettis and pom pom ball of two different sizes here. Still contemplating whether I should add some glitter in for some extra sparkles!

Making these sensory bottles are kinda addictive! lol. I had fun making them!

Have you made any sensory bottles before? If so, do share your ideas with me!


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