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Making: Styrofoam Tortoise

26 October 20096 Comments

I’ve been wanting to post arts and crafts activity ideas for the longest time.

The photos are all there, but somehow the entry keeps getting postponed.

Anyway.

Here’s one today, ie. when Vai and I made our little tortoise out of styrofoam bowl!

What we used:

– One styrofoam bowl
– Carton (eg. rather thick paper, recycled cereal box)
– Coloured Paper (for the patterns on the tortoise’s shell)
– Crayons
– Scotch tape, scissors and glue

– Usingย paper from Vai’s ‘drawing book’, I cut out hexagon shapes, the ‘four legs’, one triangle (for the tail), and a shape for the tortoise’s head (see image below on how I cut and folded it)
What we did:

– Using coloured paper, I cut out hexagon shapes (to stick on the coloured shell later)

– Vai then coloured the styrofoam bowl with his green crayons (btw, I love this brand called ‘Titi‘. It’s so easy to apply. Okay, it smudges, but I still love the ‘thickness’ of each stroke!)

After some time, Vai told me how his fingers were getting ‘tired’ of colouring the bowl, hehe. So I helped and covered most of the bowl with the green crayon, and let him do the final touches.

– Vai then glued the hexagon shapes onto the ‘shell’

– We used scotch tapes and stuck the legs, tail and ‘already-folded head’ onto the ‘inside’ of the bowl

– Vai drew the eyes and mouth on the tortoise’s head

And that’s it!

PS: Vai placed a little red sharpener below the tortoise just before I took the shot above. It’s the tortoise’s BABY, he said!

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