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Plastic bottle candle holder – recycling crafts

Posted on May 2, 2016 | 1 comment

Sometimes these fun recycling projects are so interesting for adults as much as for kids. For instance, these flower candle holders made from empty plastic bottles were fun to make for both of me and nady. They made a beautiful decoration element in the house.

All you need are:

empty plastic bottles
scissors
lighter
acrylic paints
candles

How to do?!

Start by cutting the top part of the bottle with a scissor. Cut five to six parts (making the petals) than trim each part to look like a flower petal. Pass the edges over a lighter flame, to burn and torn them to look like a real petal. Then give it to your kid to color it. After it’s completely dry insert a candle.

Nady chose blue and green colors, they turned out really amazing. i am in love with these candle holders. I am sure a lot of you wouldn’t believe it’s made from plastic bottles.

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Magazine flowers & food jar vase – recycling craft

Posted on April 25, 2016 | 2 comments

Like i said before, the earlier you teach good habits to your children, the easier they are incorporated into daily life and routine. Recycling crafts became our routine, Nady is getting more and more aware about waste and more than that he is concerned about preserving natural resources.

For instance, he turns off the water while brushing his teeth because this is a waste for water “c’est du gaspillage maman!”(gaspillage=waste). I can’t but be proud of you Nady ❤

Today we are recycling food jars into a vase and magazine papers into flowers.

First start by peeling off the packaging paper, spray it with white so your little ones can paint later with acrylic colors after completely dry. Better leave it for overnight.

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After the paint is dry, attach the jars together (using the wax gun) to make one center piece vase.

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Now it’s the turn of magazine paper flowers. Follow the scheme for the easy tutorial.

And here is the beautiful flower vase, that can make an awesome gift for a special person or simply decorate your house with it.

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Frogs Easter eggs – DIY

Posted on March 26, 2016 | 2 comments

This year is Joud’s first Easter. There was no way not to make for him exclusive eggs, cute just like him; frogs Easter eggs!

Start by coloring the hard boiled eggs with green color. If you have different shades of colors it will be perfect to make it more realistic, or simply leave some eggs in the dye for longer and shorter time to get different hues of green.

After the eggs are well dry, stick the frog’s cutout face, that you can download it if you click on frogs file.

To make it look realistic, put them on a glass tray with some pebbles, an artificial lily to look as if they are floating in a lake.

Aren’t cute and so real? i am in love with them and Joud is as well 🙂

He was so attracted to the colors, he even tasted them 🙂

Happy Easter to all المسيح قام حقاً قام

Wish you all happy holidays and lots of new beginnings and blessings and of course children. They make you look at the celebrations from a new perspective and give Easter a boost of joy.

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Bunnies and chicks cups – kids craft

Posted on March 21, 2016 | 1 comment

Cute and fun craft to do with your kids this Easter vacation, it makes a beautiful spring decoration too. A great educational and entertaining project, setting the mood for Easter before the eggs coloring.

First to do the bunnies, you will need

white cups
paint, we chose pink
pompoms
wiggling eyes
pipe cleaners
rope

Follow this step by step tutorial:

Easter bunnies and chicks cups|marmite et ponpon

Easter bunnies & chicks cups|marmite et ponpon

Your kids will love this craft and find it so fun that they wish to do so many bunnies not to finish quickly! Especially those dangling feet. If you couldn’t find a piece of rope, we used the handles of a paper bag 🙂

Now comes the turn of the chicks. We need:

white cups
yellow paint
wiggling eyes
orange paper
yellow feather

Follow me step by step

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Aren’t they cute? I think they will stay even after Easter. I love how they add the spring freshness to our decoration.

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DIY – Marine Palm Sunday candle

Posted on March 18, 2016 | Leave a comment

There are endless ways to decorate a marine Palm Sunday candle. Different materials, colors and motifs. I’ve done before one with a boat and another with an anchor. This one is with the helm.

Follow this step by step tutorial to make this beautiful candle.

marine palm sunday candle | marmite et ponpon

marine palm sunday candle|marmite & ponpon

If you still didn’t prepare your kid’s candle, all you need is 10 minutes!

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