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Easy Paper Toy - How To Assemble a Flexagon Kaleidocycle

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Paper Toys - great fun! So our Christmas Craft Special comes to and end.. and we leave you with this easy paper toy - make your own Flexagon - a never ending paper toy - download the printable here - http://bit.ly/1OiwYRN Fancy some more FREE Christmas Printables?

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C'è chi segue le regole...io preferisco seguire le emozioni!

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Un progetto alternativo ha dato forma alla Fatina che porta i soldini quando un bimbo perde un dentino :)

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La befana mi ha portato un mammut

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Oggi abbiamo fatto il teatro delle ombre. E'stato molto divertente. Elisabetta

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Giochi matematici con papà

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Oggi insieme al mio papà abbiamo realizzato il castello delle principesse

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Kaleidocycle Pokemon Evolution

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Da Elisabetta

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Ciao Matilde!

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Un'idea in più per chi ama volare!

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I've been a wee bit obsessed with weaving lately, ever since May when I saw these beautiful pieces made by Rachel Denbow. After seeing cardboard looms all over Pinterest this summer, which totally fueled my fixation, I decided to make some looms myself for my little campers.

This week I had five girls at art camp ranging from ages five to seven (and one 14 year old helper extraordinaire). Since I had never tried weaving with young children, I wasn't sure what would happen, or if they could even handle weaving, but I decided to just give it a try.

Turns out, they LOVE WEAVING! My daughter and I did it with them so it was complete side-by-side, art-making bliss. I love that in the end, you couldn't even tell the difference between my weaving and theirs (I'm only showing you theirs in this post). In fact, I loved theirs even more than mine because they were way more free with their choices and their technique. (Isn't that true for most art making? Those little ones are so unhindered by vision and plans. They just enjoy the process.)
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Here's what you'll need to make your own looms and weavings:

~ A piece of cardboard about 6" x 8", and two strips for the top and bottom.

~ Exacto knife or scissors

~ Ruler

~ Yarn (I buy mine at Michael's, but these little guys are super cute for a project like this)

~ Plastic needle

~ Masking tape & Scotch tape

~ Pom-pom maker (optional)

~ Pony beads (optional)

~ Twigs

How to make the loom:

1. Take your ruler and put it across the top of your piece of cardboard, about 1/2" from the top. Draw a straight line with a pencil. Now measure in 1" and make a hash mark. Continue on and make 12 hash marks about 3/8" apart all across the top. Do the same at the bottom. You can space them out however you would like, but this is just what I did for my looms.

2. Using an exacto knife, or scissors, cut along each hash mark, stopping at the 1/2″ line.

3. Glue on the strips of cardboard so that the top of the strip aligns with the 1/2″ line (strips are about 1/2″ wide).

4. Cut 12 pieces of yarn and thread each notch, making sure to leave a tail of about 3" on the back. Tape these ends to the back with scotch tape. Make sure the threads are fairly tight (but not so tight that it's stretching the yarn). These vertical threads are called the warp. You have your loom!

How to weave:

1. Cut a piece of yarn about 2 feet long. Thread it through the plastic needle and then tie a knot at the top of the needle.

2. Starting with the first warp thread, slide the needle underneath and then up over the next thread, and then back under the third thread, and so on. Use this under-over pattern until you get to the last warp thread. When you get to the end of your first row, pull it through all the way, leaving about a 3" tail. You can tie this tail in a knot around the first warp thread to secure it for the little kids, but after they weave two rows it won't be in danger of coming out anymore.

3. For your next row, go back the other way by doing the opposite over-under pattern as you did for the first row. (If you go under and over in the same way as the first row you will be undoing what you just did. This mistake does happen with the littles so make sure to check on them before they begin each row in the beginning, Eventually they get the hang of it).

4. Once you have a few rows, use your fingers to push up the weft yarn so that it's snug. Be careful not to pull too hard on the weft yarns after each pass through because your weaving will start to cinch in at the middle. Of course, this did happen to all of us, but I thought I should warn you anyway! First time weaving mistakes.

5. When you are done with your first color yarn, or if you decide you want to switch colors, simply end it with about a 3" tail remaining. It might start to look sloppy with lots of tails hanging out all over, but don't worry ~ all of them will be taped to the back at the end.

6. Start the next colors in the same way you started the first, leaving a tail of about 3".

7. When you get to the end, just cut off the yarn that you are working with. Not to sound too redundant...but don't forget to leave that tail. 🙂

Taking your weaving off of the loom:

1. When you are finished, undo the scotch tape in the back and carefully pull off the warp threads. I didn't take any pictures of this process for some mysterious reason, but it's fairly straightforward...it's just that you have to be careful because the weft threads could come off easily.

2. When your entire weaving has been pulled off of the loom, tie all of the warp threads together at the ends. Tie 1 & 2 together, 3 & 4 together, and so on. You should have six knots at the top and bottom. Double knots.

3. At this point, it's time to deal with the tails coming out of the sides. The reason to leave the tails on the longish side is so that you can thread them through the needle, and then gently weave them through the back a few times before trimming them. If you don't want to take this extra step, you could just tape the tails to the back with masking tape.

4. Also use masking tape to tape down the top and bottom warp threads to the back of your weaving. (If you don't want a messy looking back, you can also weave the bits back through instead.)

Finishing your weaving:

1. Technically, you are now done with your weaving. Hooray! But if you want to embellish with pom-poms and beads, and hang it on a twig, then read on. Just a note: The kids didn't do any of the finishings, except for the pom-poms. I did all of the taping, beading (kids picked out their colors) and attaching it to the twig. They watched as I did it all, but it was too finicky for their little hands.

2. We made our pom-poms with a pom-pom maker (I highly recommend these things...they are good for life!). But you can also do it the old fashioned way: around your fingers. Here is a good tutorial for that way. Don't forget to leave a longish tail with the piece of yarn that you use to tie the pom-pom. You will thread this tail through the needle and then attach it to your weaving by going through the bottom (front to back) and then taping it on the back. You can add beads to your pom-pom before you attach it to your weaving.

3. To attach the weaving to the twig, cut a piece of yarn, about a foot long, and string it through the needle. Starting on one end, loop the threaded needle through the top of the weaving and around the twig, wrapping the twig all the way until the end. Tie knots on either end, then trim and use masking tape to tape the ends to the back.

4. Lastly, to attach the hanger, simply cut a piece of yarn about 18" long (this will be trimmed, but better too long than too short), and fold it over. Loop the folded end around one side of the twig and make a knot. If you want to add beads, now is the time. To finish off the other side just tie it around the twig in a double knot and trim.

I know there are like a million steps, but the steps for the kids are pretty simple and fun. It's the making of the loom and the finishing that involves some busy work on the part of the adult. I personally LOVE busy work...and I'm betting that if you've read this far, you do too.

Here are some other versions that we did without pom-poms and using popsicle sticks. I didn't have time to collect twigs for this group and we didn't have time for pom-poms, but they are still so cute!!

One thing I forgot to mention is that this project is a great way to introduce some new vocabulary for the kids. They learned warp & weft, and they learned about woven fabric vs. knit. We talked about how so many things in their world are woven: the shorts they are wearing, their sheets and pillows, towels, tablecloths. It was such an eye opener and so fun to see all of this new knowledge sink in.

I hope you try weaving, it really is so cool.

xo, Bar

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I've been a wee bit obsessed with weaving lately, ever since May when I saw these beautiful pieces made by Rachel Denbow. After seeing cardboard looms all over Pinterest this summer, which totally fueled my fixation, I decided to make some looms myself for my little campers.

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Tosi hauska askarteluhomma tämä pieni teatteri hahmoineen! Leikkasin pahvilaatikon pohjaan reiän jättäen reunoille parin sentin kehykset. Leikkasin pohjan kokoisen palan valkoisesta silkkipaperista ja liimasin paperin laatikon sisäpuolelle kiinni reunoihin. Valmista tuli, mutta lisäsin vielä ylijääneestä pahvista "teatteri"-kyltin ja pensaan ja kukat Punahilkka-sadun teemaan sopivaksi.

Yhdessä päätettiin lapsen kanssa, että tehdään Punahilkka-hahmot. Vielä pitäisi askarrella Punahilkan äiti, niin kaikki sadun henkilöt olisivat käytettävissä. Illalla lapsi toivoi, että esittäisin iltasadunkin niin, että hän saisi katsella varjoteatteria sängystä. Sehän sopi :)

Keksimme muuten, että paras taustavalo esitykselle on otsalamppu esittäjän päässä!

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Such a fun project, this little shadow puppet theatre. We decided to make a Little Red Riding Hood themed one. Just cut a rectangle shaped hole on a cardboard box bottom and cover it with white silk paper. I also made a sign, a bush and flowers from the leftover cardboard.

We noticed that the best source of light behind the scene is a headlamp!

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Itse tehty varjoteatteri / DIY Shadow Puppet Theatre

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Tosi hauska askarteluhomma tämä pieni teatteri hahmoineen! Leikkasin pahvilaatikon pohjaan reiän jättäen reunoille parin sentin kehykset. Leikkasin pohjan kokoisen palan valkoisesta silkkipaperista ja liimasin paperin laatikon sisäpuolelle kiinni reunoihin. Valmista tuli, mutta lisäsin vielä ylijääneestä pahvista "teatteri"-kyltin ja pensaan ja kukat Punahilkka-sadun teemaan sopivaksi. Yhdessä päätettiin lapsen kanssa, että tehdään Punahilkka-hahmot.

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Få masser af ideer til sjove spil du kan lave selv.

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Interactive Learning Sites for Education

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