Last-minute Starbucks Cup Lid Snowman Ornament

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Difficulty: Easy

What's your favorite drink at coffee shop? Mine is Green tea latte with soya milk for sure. Recycle your plastic coffee lid into ornament, give your Christmas tree an adorable caffeine kick! All you need is simple, inexpensive stuff that you probably have lying around the flat!

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Materials:

• Colored ribbon / string
• Art & craft accessories (e.g. pompom, jingle bells, googly eyes)
• Hot glue gun / white glue
• Scissors
• Pen/ Sharpie

Steps:

1. Gather your cup lids
2. Cut the ribbon / string to the right length and tie it to the drinking hole of the lid
3. Glue on the eye, nose & mouth (why not add a scarf to your snowman too?)
4. Viola!

Decorating Easter eggs - Little Green Men & Hello Kitty

Difficulty: Easy

Happy Easter, it's the season to get messy and eggy! Today we will show you how to decorate, paint and craft Easter eggs, turn them into your favorite cartoon character! These Easter themed craft projects are just one of the activities that will cheer a child :) Boys will love the Little Green Men from Disney Toy Story:

Girls will love these Kitty cats even more:

Rainbow colored pasta bracelet

Welcome to our first post on DIY project! Using daily food is an inexpensive way for children to make accessories at home. Most preschoolers and kindergartners enjoy threading colorful things.

This creative play helps young kids exercise sequencing, patterning, coloring, or even shaping, which lays the groundwork for science, math and art.

You’ll need:

• Uncooked pasta: penne
• Acrylic paint / food coloring (In HK it is less common to find food coloring in a supermarket, so I used acrylic paint instead)
• Plastic bowl
• Stirrer
• Lined tray
• Pipe cleaner (毛根, also known as chenille stem) (I didn't use rope or string as they are too squashy for preschools to work on)

Instructions:

1. Dip the macaroni into acrylic paint
2. Transfer the colored pasta to lined tray, let dry
3. Thread the dried colored pasta onto the pipe cleaner
4. Close the bracelet around your child's wrist by twisting the ends of the pipe cleaner together. Trim off any remaining excess