ART AND CRAFT: 3D GARDEN

I am one who doesn't like to spend on toys. I would rather my children make their own because sooner or later, they won't want to play with children's toys anymore.

Before my son started formal school, we spent two sessions daily on different activities. Most of our activities involved art and craft.

This week, I would love to share with you a 3D garden that we made four years ago.

Week 13: ART and CRAFT

TOPIC: 3D Garden

Materials:

Boxes of different sizes for the garden and flower pots.
Colour papers for grass, sky, and a pond.
Old books or magazines to cut out pictures like flowers, fish and tree. Or you can print out whatever you need.
Cotton for clouds.
Glue and scissors.

Here we go!

Get the biggest box, which you want to use for the scene and cut out the left and right sides of the top part.

Paste blue colour paper at the top and back (inside) of the box for the sky.

Paste green colour paper at the bottom (inside of the box) for the lawn.

Crumple some blue paper and stick them on the lawn for a fish pond. (refer to Picture D)

Picture A

Get some green colour papers and cut them (refer to the picture below) for grass. Leave about 1cm uncut so you can stick it on the lawn.

Picture B

Take smaller boxes for flower pots. You can decorate the boxes with stickers. Here, we use labelling stickers.

Picture C

Cut out pictures that you want to add into the scenery. Here, we have some fishes in the pond, flowers, a tree, and a girl watering the flowers.

Lastly, use the cotton to make clouds and stick them at the top part of the box.

Picture D

Now, the children can have a garden tea party with their toy dolls, animals or robots!

Enjoy the tea party! 😎

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