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DIY classic Palm Sunday candle – olive branch

Posted on April 11, 2014 | 4 comments

Today we celebrate palm friday (instead of palm sunday) in Doha. Strange no?!

Anyways, nothing will affect our happiness, teta and jeddo (grandmother and grandfather in arabic) are here to celebrate the holiday season with Nady.

They got olive branches from Lebanon, so i wanted this year to make the classic candle like old days.

Very easy and fast, could be the last minute candle. But in my opinion the most beautiful one with the olive branch symbol of peace.

All you need is washi paper and white ribbon. Make four parallel strips:

Baby blue washi tape to go with the green of the olive branch.

Then tie a thin white ribbon as a bow in the middle between the lines.

And a thicker satin one.

Insert the olive branch between the ribbon and stick the stem under the last washi tape line.

Et Voila! a beautiful classic candle that holds lot of meanings.

We are ready to go to the church!

Happy Palm Friday/Sunday to everyone 🙂

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DIY Palm Sunday candle – flowers

Posted on April 10, 2014 | 2 comments

There are many ways to decorate the palm sunday candle at home. If your precious is a girl and you want to make something simple and girly, you will like this one.

Colors are very subjective depending on your girl cloths, her favourite colors or even yours!

In a previous post i showed you how to make these beautiful flowers. Check spring flowers for tutorials, but this time you will need ribbons and buttons for the carpel.

Start by wrapping two intertwined ribbons on the 1/3 third of the candle to keep space for the little hand to hold it.

If you noticed they are 3 sizes flowers. Glue the big and medium one on the wrapped ribbons and the small on one of the hanging ribbons as shown.

And it’s ready 🙂 Simple, easy and beautiful.

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Marine Palm Sunday candle – DIY

Posted on April 8, 2014 | 3 comments

Palm sunday is in less than a week time. If you still didn’t buy your kid’s candle and you would like to make a special unique one, here is a step by step tutorial for a marine theme.

On a white candle, wrap two different colors of ribbon, almost at the 1/3, so it’s above your kid hand grip.

Create with a third color ribbon, a kind of bow as shown below and stick it in the middle between the two ribbons.

Stick the motifs either with UHU glue or wax gun. Click here to download a high resolution file of the drawing. Print it on a card board and let the printing house cut it out with laser if you are not good with the exacto.

Use a thread to attach the wheel and anchor, and let them dangle.

You can use any color related to the marine theme, not necessarily those specific ones. Depending on what you find in the shop.

Boy or girl can enjoy this candle. Happy palm sunday!

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kids spring/Easter crafts, yellow flowers (DIY- step by step)

Posted on March 31, 2014 | 3 comments

The color festival is still on! Celebrate the spring and pre-easter season with your kids. Develop their fine motor skills, and teach them colors.

My boy is learning the spring season and the yellow color at the nursery. I thought of DIY yellow paper flowers. Why not? It could be the table centerpiece at Easter. Lets have fun!

First we need a vase. Empty cheese jar was an excellent idea. We decorated it with colorful japanese washi tape.

The minute I set down the material on the table, Nady showed an unbelievable excitement.

You will be surprised how much you can do with just papers; Pinwheel daffodil, marigold, daisy, tulip and geranium, for this time.

Follow me step by step on how we do the pinwheel daffodil.

Marigold:

Daisy, tulip and geranium. Click on flowers cut outs for a high resolution file.

Green straws for the stems.

Et voila!

Simply gorgeous! Nady was so happy, contemplating the beauty of the flowers.

So excited, he started to collect the flowers to make a bouquet.

Nady’s reaction to this activity was unexpected. I was extremely happy from his response. Crafting today was extremely beautiful and fun. He grabbed the vase and started to fill it with the flowers.

Busy boy 🙂 So proud of himself.

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Easter and spring crafts for kids- beautiful bunny garland

Posted on March 25, 2014 | 1 comment

Two weeks ago we kicked off Easter spirit because we wanted this year decoration to be done by us. Usually this festive season coincides with the spring. Hello to the colorful crafting season!

Crafting should be fun, entertaining and instructive at the same time. My son loves everything hanging and dangling, so we decided to do a colorful bunny garland to decorate his play area.

To start with, you need to cut out bunny shape in different colors. Click on bunny to download a high resolution file of the cut out.