Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

In our family, I’d like to encourage the kids to use everyday stuff at home for our crafting and other activity sessions. It’s our way of ‘recycling’ too, I guess (ie. re-using the materials to produce something else, before finally throwing them out for good).

And the other day Anya and I made bracelets using a plastic bottle!

What you need :

– A plastic bottle (the 500ml type is good for kids’ small arms. We used a ‘Coke Zero’ bottle)

– Scissors, glue

– Crepe paper

– Coloured paper

What you do :

– Cut (slice) the middle of the plastic bottle so that you get a full ‘ring’

– Cut one strip of the coloured crepe paper (approx. 2cm wide)

– Paste some glue on the outer side of the ‘ring’, then let the child paste the strip of crepe paper onto it, going in and out of the ring, covering its plastic surface (ie. the inside and the outside)

– To make things easier for the child, shorten the length of crepe paper strip so that it’s not too troublesome for the child during the ‘wrapping’ phase

– Once all surface is covered, decorate it with anything you like (I used one of our ‘pattern maker’ thingies to cut out our coloured paper into shapes of christmas trees)

And that’s about it really!

And you have yourself a little home-made recycled bracelet!!

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PS : If you and your kid(s) get to try out any of the activity ideas from the site, and if you happen to take photos of the session, it’d be really nice if you can email one or two of those photos to me. If you don’t mind, that is. Am thinking of posting some of those photos on the site sometime! Thanks everyone.