Do you have kids who enjoy making things, exploring and experimenting? Most kids do and the good news for parents is, home practical experiments are not only fun, they have educational value. They also make great gifts!
You can shop for experiment ingredients if you have the time to search for them but what if it is all nicely packaged in a box addressed to your child together with materials for the activity, an instruction and trivia booklet along with a gift card, greeting cards and some discount vouchers and delivered to your home? Wouldn't that be a nice surprise?
Atom & the Dot, a pioneer in art and science subscription boxes for kids in Malaysia has done just that. Their monthly activity boxes are curated to inspire curiosity in kids and encourage discovery through hands-on activities.
You can try out a box for one month at RM 100 (or RM 68 from 3-31 Dec 2018)
Subscribers get a surprise box each month with materials and instructions for experiments, activities or games. Subscription rates are as follows:
3 months: RM 250 (~RM 83/ box)
6 months: RM 450 (~RM 75/ box)
12 months: RM 720 (~RM 60/ box)
You can also try an individual box from their Try-me collection before subscribing. These are boxes from earlier months. You can purchase these boxes at RM100 (or RM68 from 3-31 Dec 2018).
Christmas Gifts for Curious Kids
Christmas gift for the kid who likes gardening.
Alternatively, try out one of these Christmas boxes. Christmas boxes are mini boxes with one activity. They make excellent Christmas gifts for curious kids. There are 6 different themes for little gardeners, astronomers, chemists and even paleontologist (scientist who studies fossils) wannabe including
Chain Reaction
Dinosaur Fossil
Periodic Table
Robot Tester
Self -watering Plant
Solar System
Priced at RM45 per box, you can get these mini Christmas surprise boxes for RM35 if you pre-order before 2 December 2018.
Gift Boxes come with materials and instructions for experiments, activities or games like this Solar board game
Coming Soon in December...
December’s surprise box is a special Christmas edition “Toymaker’s Toolbox”. Kids get to play Santa’s elf with materials and instructions to make 6 mini toys. Like Atom & the Dot on Facebook to receive more details on this upcoming offer.
Redeem a box at RM0.99!
Here is a chance for you to try out a box (the Robot Tester box) at just RM0.99!
All you need to do is refer 3 friends to Atom & the Dot. Limited to first 50 customers. You need to purchase your Robot Tester box by 2 December 2018. Shipping fees apply. Refer friends here.
Besides Christmas gifts, subscription boxes are great as birthday gifts too. Parent and child can have a nice surprise each month with a new hands-on activity to explore together.
Chinese New Year is coming to town... You know because when you go to the malls, you will hear Chinese New Year music and you will see red everywhere, red decorations that is.
Nowadays, you can buy many Chinese New Year decorations from the supermarkets, "kedai runcit" (grocery store) and "pasar malam" (night market) too. They're not cheap though and nothing beats the satisfaction of making your own. So why not give it a try?
It is easy to make your own Chinese New Year decorations from angpow paper, so easy that even kids can make them as you can see from the videos below. They range from easy to intermediate. However, kids can make them if they follow the step by step video tutorial. It will be a fun activity for the whole family. The reward? Nice bonding and memorable moments for the whole family and a beautifully decorated house for Chinese New Year!
1. How To Make DIY Angpow Ancient Coin Lantern Tutorial. (You need 16 pieces of Angpow packets)
2. How To Make DIY Angpow Flower Tutorial (You need 60 piecces of square Angpow packets)
3. How To Make DIY 3D Angpow Koi Fish (You need colourful angpow packets. The number of packets depend on how many koi fish decoration you wish to make)
4. How To Make A Simple Chinese New Year Angpow Lantern (You Need 12 pieces of Angpow Packets)
You will find more videos like this when you Subscribe to this video channel. Merryn frequently updates her channel with kids crafting, kids cooking videos and interesting reviews on places of interest and activities for parents with young kids.
Besides Crafting Tutorials, you will also find kids cooking and baking videos on this YouTube Channel.
Here's one of her kids cooking videos.
How to bake Cute Doggy Cookies for Chinese New Year 2018 Year of the Dog. There are plenty more videos on simple bakes and crafts done by kids for kids. Check out the full list of videos here. There are more Chinese New Year cookies baking with kids ideas in the list including Happy Nut cookies, Cranberry Cornflakes cookies and Almond Cookies baking tutorials. All videos are kid friendly. Kids can even cook Peranakan dishes.
In a Chinese Dictionary, words may also be indexed according to Chinese Radicals
This post is for the members of our Facebook Group - The Malaysia Primary School Parents especially for non-Chinese speaking families who are helping their kids with Chinese homework.
Learning Chinese is very different from learning English or Bahasa Malaysia. In BM or English, you first learn alphabets, then you form words from those alphabets. Learning those alphabets is the building blocks for forming many words and from there you progress on to sentences.
On the other hand, you have to memorize Chinese Mandarin characters in order to master the language. How many Chinese characters are there? Over 50000 according to this article from BBC. However, you only need to know about 2000-3000 in order to read the Chinese newspaper.
Where alphabets are the building blocks for words, perhaps you could say that Chinese Radicals are the building blocks for Chinese characters. So, it would help for you to teach your child this well. Here are some useful resources from the internet that will help you learn Chinese Radicals.
Chinese Character Radicals From Arch Chinese - Click on the pinyin to hear the pronunciation for each radical. Click on the radical and fetch details from the radical page to see the meaning as well as examples of words using the radical and their meanings.
Chinese Characters and Radicals Index - This page has an explanation of how to learn Chinese characters and what are the advantages of learning Chinese Radicals
Learning Chinese Radicals is a lot of fun. Once you learn the radicals, you will understand how and why certain Chinese characters are formed and be able to recognize a lot of other words/Chinese Character or guess the word simply by knowing the radicals. Here is a very good visual example of how the "ice" radical is used to form Chinese characters while here is another one which shows how the "mouth" radical is used in Chinese Characters . (Visit this link to have a good understanding of how radical works). Happy Learning!
I didn't realize that we are so close to Christmas because I have been busy working. I work online so sometimes working equals to surfing. It was while surfing that I came across this wonderful free Christmas Themed Colouring Pages For Kids, Teens and Adults. No, actually it is not merely colouring pages but a whole free downloadable holiday colouring book with 92 pages of Christmas themed art! The paperback copy is available on Amazon for $11.49 but you get to download the ebook for free.
I downloaded a copy for myself and was delighted to find so many different styles of Christmas themed colouring pages. You will find Santa, Reindeers, Christmas Trees, Ornaments, Quotes, Snowmen, Christmas Wreaths, Angels, Gingerbread Houses, Christmas Doodles, and more. The illustration styles from participating Art Licensing Show Artists are varied and the designs suitable for everyone who loves colouring from kids to adults.
Today marks the start of the Ramadhan month for muslims. For those who love art and crafts, it is also a good time to get your kids to do some Ramadhan inspired art. Here is one very easy one for both adults and kids alike. It is based on zentangle art principles.
Zentangle is simply drawing structured repetitive patterns, lines, circles, squares, triangles. You draw the lines onto squares little by little and the end result is always beautiful.
For older kids and adults, you can start off by drawing the outline of a mosque. Zentangle uses squares but we're going to use the outline of an object to create our Ramadhan art. Fill the mosque with zentangle patterns and you get beautiful art. Below is an example of one we did in 15 minutes.
For younger kids, you can get them to draw a prayer mat and fill it with patterns. Other simple basic outline drawing which adults can draw for kids to colour include oil lamps, star and crescent moon, or letters of the alphabet spelling out Ramadhan etc.
Usually only one colour is used but go ahead and make it colourful if you like. At the end of our images, we share a YouTube video on some simple zentangle patterns for kids which you can use for your Ramadhan Art For Kids.
I saw someone make origami dresses previously and they look absolutely adorable. I think these little origami dresses make excellent bookmarks or as gifts to friends. They can also be attached at the top of your wrapper giving your present that extra edge.
They are so easy to make, they make an excellent school holiday activity or craft you can do with your kids at home. No mess and it only takes a couple of minutes.
The above origami dress was crafted after watching the videos on YouTube on How To Make An Origami Dress below. There are two videos below. I find the second one easier to understand but I'm including both. You check both of them out to see which one works better for you. Enjoy folding!
I'm so going to make a few more of these! You can get cute origami paper like these from Daiso.
Here's a very easy craft idea for young kids for this year Chinese New Year 2016 which is the Year of the Monkey.
The pictures for this popsicle stick monkey craft is self-explanatory but we will explain it briefly to give you an even better idea.
Here's what you need for your ice-cream stick monkey
One (1) popsicle stick or ice-cream stick
Coloured construction paper
Googly Eyes (Optional)
Glue
Sharpies or Marker Pens for drawing
Instructions on How To Make Your Ice-Cream Stick Monkey
Cut out the shapes as shown above for your monkey's ears and face.
Remember to use a different coloured circle for the main face shape
Paste the big round circle over the two little circle that make up the monkey ears
Paste the nose and face shape over the main round shape
Draw in or decorate your monkey's face
Paste googly eyes on draw as shown
Draw an upside down arrow for the nose and lips
Draw two red lines as shown for a blushing monkey
Finally paste the face over the ice-cream stick
That's it! Happy Chinese New Year 2016. We hope you like this Year of the Monkey 2016 Craft Idea for kids.
This craft idea was contributed by Little Oxford Daycare and Tuition Centre. Kids are the daycare have guided activities like this Popsicle Stick Monkey during quiet times at the centre.
We love crafting and we love the internet. You can find lots of wonderful resources for crafting all over the internet. This coming Chinese New Year heralds the Year of the Monkey so that means it is time to make monkey crafts! Here's where you can find some delightful and cute monkey printables, templates, cut outs and more for your Year of the Monkey Crafts 2016.
1. Found on Adele Jeunette's hubpages on Kid Crafts for Year of the Monkey: Chinese New Year Art Projects and Printables. The Monkey King template, Monkey Papercut and Monkey head Chinese New Year Greeting are especially adorable! Do head over to Adele's page for the instructions and monkey printables and templates for your year of the monkey crafts. The printables are in jpeg format.
2. Found on Timvandevall.com is this page on Printable Monkey Clipart, Coloring Pages, Cartoon & Crafts for Kids. You will find plenty of monkey clipart here which you can print out for your Year of the Monkey projects with your kids. Along with the free monkey printables, creative monkey craft ideas for kids are included eg. how to use the monkey templates to make monkey masks, monkey bookmarks, monkey signs, monkey pencil toppers, monkey board game markers and more. Below is an example of the cute monkey template you can find on Timvandevall.com. The printables are in jpeg format.
3. Found on Activity Village is the page on Monkey Printables. Lots of free printables here including monkey masks, monkey calendar, monkey card, posters and plenty of monkey activities for your little one. Love it! The printables are in pdf format. The tracing page and mask from the page as shown below is so cute!. Go to Activity Village to get the pdf and many more ideas for your Year Of The Monkey Crafts with kids.
Last year in November, Hobby Hob In, Bangsar conducted a holiday program for kids called the Picasso Cubist Portraits. Cubism involves drawing made up of geometric shapes, like cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones etc.
Kids can have fun with cubism by drawing and painting brightly coloured portraits. Encourage the use of contrasting colours and lots of geometric shapes to get the cubism effect.
Here are some examples of the Picasso Cubist Portraits created by kids during the holiday program. They are reproduced here with the permission of Hobby Hop In to help you visualize how to create the same kind of art with your kids.
Instructions. Start by drawing the shape for the face and divide it to show a profile. Draw in the features and add free form flowing hair in Picasso's signature style. Finally outline with sharpies and colour in using paint or oil pastels. The results are amazing as you can see.
Hobby Hob In is in Bangsar. Besides art and crafts, they also conduct speech and drama, phonics classes etc. Their creative writing classes for kids is on every Saturday 9-11 am for age 8 and 9 and 11-1 pm for age 10 and 11. Max 6 kids. Here's how you can contact them to find out more about their lessons.
This year 2016, Chinese New Year begins on 8th February 2016. I mentioned "begins" instead of "falls on" because the Chinese New Year celebration is really 15 days long culminating in the Chap Goh Meh (which stands for "the fifteenth night") celebration. In between, there are a couple of important days to celebrate too. You can read all about the days of festivities during Chinese New Year from wikipedia.
This year 2016, is the Year of the Monkey according to the Chinese Zodiac. I have two monkeys in my house, my father and my son. The Chinese Zodiac goes on a 12 year cycle so they are about 7 cycles apart. Amazing, now that I come to think of it. You can secretly tell a person's age by asking for their animal sign according to Chinese Zodiac.
The Chinese like red and orange (which sounds like "gold") so I'm going to use red and orange/gold for my Year of the Monkey Chinese New Year 2016 craft for kids.
This is a very simple craft. You can do it in minutes. I gathered all the craft materials from leftover stuff in my house. I always keep knick knacks so we can craft anytime. We used to be able to do crafting a lot when the kids were very much younger but now that they are grown and in school, we have a lot less time for it.
Here's what you will need:
Construction Paper (preferably red, orange, gold)
Sharpie
Stamp Pad
Glue
Hole Puncher
Ribbon
Notes: We used leftover Chinese calligraphy paper from previous years for our craft. They are long and come with pre printed design making it excellent for Chinese New Year Crafts. We used thin red ribbon with a gold trim. If you don't have red paper. You can use white or other colours and use a red stamp pad instead. Stamping on different coloured paper may produce different results as you can see. Our purple stamp looks nice on white paper but looks almost black on the red one.
Chinese New Year Craft For Kids Materials
Instructions for our Chinese New Year 2016 Year of the Monkey Craft For Kids:
We're making a See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil fingerprint Monkey trio bookmark. You can use the same idea to make Chinese New Year homemade cards instead of a bookmark.
Gather all the materials you will need
Cut the paper into two rectangles. The red rectangular paper should be slightly smaller than the orange one
Cut the ribbon into size
Punch a hole at the top of the orange paper
Tie in the ribbon
Practice making fingerprint monkeys on another piece of paper. Use your little finger for the head and your thumb for the body. Then draw in the ears, tail and hands. The first pair of hands goes over the eye area, the second goes over the ears and the third to cover the mouth area
Once you are happy with your fingerprint monkeys, do the same on the red paper
Glue the red paper over the orange one
Write a Chinese New Year message at the bottom area of the bookmark
Happy Chinese New Year 2016!
Craft Supplies For Chinese New Year Homemade Craft For Kids
Practice making your fingerprint monkeys on a separate piece of paper
Chinese New Year 2016 Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil Monkey Trio Bookmark
We hope you like our Chinese New Year homemade bookmark craft for kids. Happy Chinese New Year 2016!
Deepavali or Diwali as it is known in many parts of the world is coming soon. Time to get crafting with the kids. Here are some really easy and quick Diwali crafts for kids. In fact, these craft ideas are good for anytime and anyone, not only for Diwali.
1. Easy hand print peacock. I saw this on pinterest and immediately fell in love with it. It is so easy to make and the results are really adorable. Mine didn't look half as good as some of those on pinterest did because I took only minutes to do it for the purpose of illustrating this post. Just ask your child to draw a hand print and decorate. You can use water colours, glitters, real feathers, anything you fancy. Older kids can try with more fancy materials. Younger kids can do what I did which is using highlighter and sharpies.
Trying out the hand print peacock
2. Easy Handmade cards for Diwali for kids to make and give away or to decorate your home for Diwali. This handmade card idea is from Whatscookingmom. You can browse her blog for more easy home made card ideas. They are very good ideas and very easy for kids to make. You can do these as a last minute Deepavali craft. All you need are paper and for decoration, you can use shiny, glitter paper, glitter glue and lots of creativity.
Homemade Diwali Card Idea
3. Henna Hands - Here is another really easy but beautiful art for Diwali using hand print again. You can get kids to draw the outline of their hand print, then cut it out and decorate. Found this one on Thomas Elementary Art. Really amazing and so easy and quick. I love this one!
Henna Hands - An easy art using hand print
4. Paper Flowers Garland Craft For Kids by A Creative Project. Get the instructions from the link. This craft for children is not only fun, it helps you save on having to buy decoration as they double up as a nice home decoration idea for Diwali too. I like how this blogger alternated between flower and leaves for her garland. Very pretty craft indeed.
Paper Flowers Garland Craft For Kids
4. Diwali is the festival of lights so no craft project would be complete without a lamp or two. Here is one very delightful paper plate Diwali lamp craft for kids from Urvi's World: Child Art and Imagination. This paper lamp craft idea is really easy and quick and can be done by very young children.
Diwali Paper Lamp Craft For Kids
5. Paper plate Rangoli or Kolam Craft Idea. Here are some free printable Rangoli Designs for kids to color from Best Coloring Pages For Kids. You can either print them out as they are to color or alternatively, why not get your children to draw out the design on a paper plate and decorate it in any way they like to make an instant mini kolam or rangoli.
Rangoli Design For Kids
I hope you like this selection of craft ideas which took us a lot of time to find and compile. These craft ideas are great for anyone, not only those who are celebrating it. In fact, it can be used as a lesson plan to teach children about culture and the Diwali celebrations.
Making crafts during the Holiday Seasons and festivals like New Year, Christmas, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Halloween etc is a good way of teaching kids about these festivities and cultures. It also creates an absolutely festive feel for the kids and make them look forward to the celebrations with eagerness and anticipation.
It is a way of preserving culture. I hope you enjoy the crafts below. Some were done by me and my kids over the last few years when they were still preschoolers. They are fun and easy for young children. Others, are from our recommended favorite sites for Holiday Crafts for Children.
Teach kids about holidays and cultures using crafts
Whether it is Christmas, Chinese New Year, the muslim Ramadan and Hari Raya or the Diwali or Festival of Lights celebrated by the Indians, crafting is a great way to teach kids about the different cultures of the world.
Chinese New Year Crafts for kids - Here are some really quick and easy Chinese New Year Crafts to do with kids
Here are some easy Chinese New Year Craft kids can do at home. It is fun and easy for kids to follow. I love YouTube. You can learn many holiday crafts by watching the videos and making the crafts as you watch. Kids can make Fish Craft for the Chinese New Year as fish is evergreen and considered Good Luck for the Chinese.
The Chinese like to give out Angpows (red packets filled with money) during festivities especially Chinese New Year. They like the color red because it symbolizes good luck and fish because the word fish sounds like the word prosperity. So, many Chinese like to decorate their homes with fish made from angpow papers plus lanterns and other decorations all made out of angpow paper. We always enjoy making our own homemade decorations made from angpow paper although there are many readymade ones being sold.
Here's one extremely easy to make angpow fish video. You can make it at any time of the year, not only during Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year Angpow Fish Origami Craft
Valentine's Day Craft Ideas For Kids - Here are some of my favorite resources for Valentine's Day Crafts for kids
Valentine's Day is the perfect time for making crafts! Here are some of my favorite sites with fun Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids which offer a variety of Valentine's Paper Crafts, Valentine's Heart Crafts, Homemade Valentine's Day cards and other crafts kids can make.
DLTK's Valentine's Day Activities for Kids
Free printable templates and instructions for Saint Valentine's Day crafts plus coloring pages, a brief history and recipes. Suitable for children -- toddlers thru grade school.
Free Valentine's Day Crafts Projects at AllCrafts.net
AllCrafts.net - Free Crafts Network Free Crafts projects! Your guide for all types of crafts. Holiday crafts, Kids crafts, crochet, sewing, knitting, dolls, rubber stamps and much more! 20+ craft categories. New free projects added weekly!
Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids
Valentine's Day crafts for kids. The Valentine's Day crafts are a fun and creative way for your child to spend a cold February afternoon and most are made with craft materials from around the house.
Meanwhile, here are some of the crafts we have done on this blog. Click Here For Instructions On The Crafts Shown Below
This Fireworks Glitter Art was done with glue and glitters. Remember to use black or dark construction paper for the best effect. This is a great craft idea for festivals or celebration. It would be the perfect Happy New Year Craft. Check the link below for how we did ours.
Diwali is a great time for crafting. It is the festival of lights. So you can do many crafts with candles, lights and flowers. Children can also make a Simple Rangoli Craft for Kids. Rangoli is a decoration in front of the house usually made of colored rice grains.
This craft is related to our Christmas Tree and Snowflakes Scene Picture Craft above. We pasted the completed snowflakes onto our picture. In fact, you can use these paper snowflakes cutouts for just about any other pictures you can think of. You can even make a few colored ones and string them together to make a hanging snowflakes mobile. Anything is possible with a little imagination and creativity.
Christmas Scene Craft
A must try craft for the Christmas holidays, this Christmas scene and tree craft uses snowflake cutouts. Don't worry, I will show you how to make the paper snowflakes in my step-by-step picture guide. Check out my previous module on How to Make Paper Snowflakes.
3-D Christmas Tree Craft
This 3 dimensional Christmas tree craft is not difficult to cut out and assemble. The fun part is putting up the decorations. As usual, we used our recycled ribbons from gifts and hampers we received. We also used stickers and glitter pens.
There are different versions to this Pop-Up Christmas Tree Card. Version One of the Pop-up Christmas Tree requires an origami or a Christmas tree made out of paper folding. You then stick that origami tree on the card. Version two, simply requires you to do some cutting on paper. Both are equally beautiful and suitable as a fun craft for young kids.
Santa's Reindeer Craft
Another holiday or Christmas craft, this one features Santa's reindeers. The reindeer's ears are made out of from paper cutouts of the children's handprints. Again, we featured the paper snowflakes in this Christmas Craft.
We got our Reindeer Art idea from Allfreecrafts.com Then we added some snow flakes from paper cuts in them. Here's our version of Santa's Reindeer Craft.
Mooncake Festival Crafts
Paper Lantern Craft for Mooncake Festival
This paper lantern craft for kids is suitable for mooncake festival, lantern festival or Mid Autumn Festival as well as Chinese New Year. It is great for teaching kids about these festivals. Typically Chinese children will carry lanterns and go around their neighbourhood while their elders will sip tea and enjoy mooncake under the moonlit night on mooncake festival.
However, these paper lanterns are so pretty, you can make them at any other time just for fun. I have a step-by-step guide on how to make these paper lantern craft.
Halloween Crafts and Activities - EnchantedLearning.com
Halloween Crafts and Activities for kids. Kindergarten, preschool, and elementary school crafts. Make wonderful, simple Halloween crafts with things found around the house.
Halloween Crafts
Create spooky, homemade Halloween crafts with easy Halloween craft ideas. Includes dozens of simple Halloween craft projects your kids will love, plus Halloween printables!
Hari Raya Crafts
from Kiddyhouse.com
Ramadan Craft
Bulan Ramadan or the Ramadan month is the 9th month of the Islamic Calander. Muslims will fast during this month. You can read more about Ramadan at Wikipedia.
Kiddyhouse.com has some interesting Ramadan Crafts for kids. Here kids can learn how to make a Hari Raya Card Craft, Ramadan Lamp Craft, a Ramadan Mobile Sun Catcher and more.
The Hari Raya Card Craft is in the form of a ketupat or Malay Rice Dumpling. Very interesting.
Check out earlier post for more Hari Raya Crafts for Kids. You will find more links for children Hari Raya Art and Craft including how to Make a Hari Raya Card, Hari Raya Lamp Craft and other kids craft ideas for Hari Raya. Check it out for links to Ramadan Activities, Coloring pages, Stories and Ramadan Songs for kids.
Origami Paper Fortune Tellers Or Cootie Catcher is a traditional game passed down from generation to generation. If you have forgotten how to make one, this post shows you the steps on how to make it.
How To Make A Paper Fortune Teller or Cootie Catcher - Step By Step Instructions
A Paper Fortune Teller or Cootie Catcher is a fun game I used to play as a child. In those days, we didn't have tablet computers or interactive hand held devices to distract us. I like how life was so much simpler then. Children played with homemade games and toys. They read a lot more books then they do now and they also have a lot more physical play.
In this lens, I will teach you how to make a paper fortune teller and how to play with a paper fortune teller. It is a nice game to play with friends on a rainy day. You can make up the fortune or write fun things to do in your paper fortune teller and have a jolly good time.
What You Need To Make Your Paper Fortune Teller - You Will Need A Square Piece Of Paper
First of all, here is what you will need to make your paper fortune teller.
You will need a square piece of paper. You will also need marker pens or colored pens. If you like you can make your paper fortune teller look even better by decorating it with colored pencils, glitters or stickers or anything else you like!
Step One on How To Make Your Own Paper Fortune Teller
First, you have to fold your square paper in half. Then fold it again into half. Finally unfold.
Step Two on How To Fold Your Own Paper Fortune Teller
In the second step, you have to fold all the corners of the paper to meet in the center. When you are done, you will have a square paper again.
Step Three On How To Fold Your Own Paper Fortune Teller - Look at the sequence of this picture in clockwise manner and finishing at the center
When you are done with step two above, turn your paper over.
In step three, you have to fold all the corners of the paper into the center in the same manner as you did in step two.
When you are done, you are back to square one, meaning you will have a square paper again.
Step Four On How To Make Your Own Paper Fortune Teller
When you are done with step three, turn the paper over, then fold first one way and reopen and then fold the other way and reopen. This is to facilitate or make it easier for you to slip your fingers into the paper fortune teller in the next step.
Step Five One How To Make Your Own Paper Fortune Teller
Write the names of four colors on each of the flaps in your paper fortune teller.
The most basic is to write in the name of colors. However, you can exercise your own creativity by filling it with the name of flowers, your friends, or monster names if you prefer, just for fun!
Step Six On How To Make Your Own Paper Fortune Teller
Next, turn the paper fortune teller and write in the numbers 1 to 8 on all of the sections you see.
Again, instead of numbers you can write in any other words you prefer.
Step Seven Of Making Your Own Paper Fortune Teller
Finally, write in the "fortunes". Be imaginative and fun. Write in anything you like.
Instead of 'fortunes' you can also write in other things that require your friends to do a certain action, like "Dance and twirl around" or "Laugh non stop" etc.
How To Play With Your Paper Fortune Teller
1. Slip your fingers into the 'pockets' of the paper fortune teller. 2. Ask your friend to choose a color.
3. Spell the color while moving your fingers in and out first one way, then the other.
4. Then ask your friend to choose a number that is available.
5. Move the fortune teller in and out according to the number chosen.
6. Ask your friend to choose another number from the ones that can be seen.
7. Open the flap and read out the fortune.
Free Printable Paper Fortune Teller Templates - For All Occasions
These paper fortune teller or cootie catcher templates are for all occasions including Valentines, Thanksgiving, Year of the Dragon and Halloween. Have fun!
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are for all occasions including Valentines, Thanksgiving, Year of the Dragon and Halloween. Have fun!
