Christmas paper snowflake tutorial

This snowflake is easy to do with the children:

http://make-handmade.com/2011/12/14/christmas-paper-snowflake-tutorial/

It uses two paper cuttings and overlay them to create 3D effect!

Just follow the step-by-step instruction via:



http://make-handmade.com/2011/12/14/christmas-paper-snowflake-tutorial/
 
 

Fun things with the kids

50 Things You and the Kids Should Do Before New Year’s Eve

http://www.blogger.com/goog_846444056

12-28-2011


A compilation of 50 ideas and inspirations to help teachers or parents do fun things with the kids:

* Cut mittens out of doilies and string them up with yarn
* Grab glitter and printer paper for homemade snow flakes;
* Slide photos or drawings inside empty snow globes;
* Fill old tights with cotton, grab googly eyes and felt and you’ve got a silly door sweep.

Etc...
I like the snow flakes idea!  Try it with kids at home and they all like the magic of having one cut yet multiple pattern.  To them, it is just like magic show!

Read More at http://www.ivillage.com/fun-things-do-winter-kids/6-b-300886#ixzz1hq8hYY9s

Enjoy!

Dexterine Ho Soo Miang

Paper Toys

If you like paper toys and paper models/cut-outs, here is what you would enjoy.

Print out airplanes, party hats, paper cars, paper motorcycles, and pop-up cards from this free site: http://papertoys.com/

Some of the models I like are:

London Taxi

King's Crown

Paper Doll

Pop-Up Card: Bird

Completely free!

Dexterine Ho Soo Miang

Princeton Online: Incredible Art Department

Since 1994 - the oldest art education site on the net!

So much to see on this site!
 
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/index.html

"Welcome to The Incredible Art Department. This site began in late 1994 as a showcase for my elementary art students in a school in Indianapolis, Indiana. This site was the second educational website in Indiana. The first was a 5th grade classroom in Brookview Elementary. My district was not ready for this exposure so they told me to remove the site. Instead of completely folding it, I decided to open it up to the world. The response was phenomenal. I received 8,555 visitors the first year. Now the site receives millions of visitors each year."

Personally, I like "The Art Teacher Toolbox" at http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/toolbox.html "It is a resource for homeschoolers and new teachers. You can read about art curriculum and instruction, discipline strategies, special education, NCLB, best practices, school law, view contests, and create rubrics."

The problem in find good art and craft sources from this site is to differetial advertisements from the good information sources.  The advertisement is shown first and is blocking your navigation path and move you away from your orginal search.

Nevertheless, if you are patient enough, you may find good sites like "Art for small hands" at  http://www.artforsmallhands.com/ for teaching pre-schoolers.

I like the "Collection of Student Art Galleries" at http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/kid_galleries.html it open the door to students' art and craft work from all over the world!

If you are interested to trace the history of the site and look at the pages in 1994 to 2011, you may click the links near the bottom of this page "IAD Website Designs through the years" at http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/history/history.html

I like looking at old pages as they illustrate the changes in the history of Internet with "look and feel", For example, the 1994-46 webpage, was made for the Netscape browser which was "cool" at that time as it replaced text based browsers!  Well, Web browers do have history that younger generation are not aware of.  It is a good site for me who is a "Library Trainer" to use it in my training and show the evolution of information studies in "retrospective mode"!

Cheers!

Dexterine Ho Soo Miang

Creative paper cutting and paper art

"一張平凡無奇的紙，到了紙雕藝術家洪新富的手裡，可以切割摺出各式各樣的形狀，包括萬­物的不同體態；無論是大家熟悉的十二生肖，或是台灣特有的保育動物，都是洪新富創作的­靈感來源。

透過切割與摺疊，他不只把紙張變立體，而且不用黏貼，而是用卡接的方式做，其中很多還­會動，讓紙雕作品更生動更具有童玩趣味。洪新富的作品大如台灣黑熊，小如一隻蚊子，蚊­子在他的細心雕琢下，放在手臂上栩栩如生，讓人真的很想打。

四歲就會摺紙鶴的洪新富，從小展現摺紙的才華，數不清的作品，讓小小的紙藝工作室，顯­的更加狹小。但是他對玩紙的企圖心很大，因為紙張它是平面，那我們是把平面，去模擬立­體的效果，所以在做過程中折線跟壓縮，它常常會是構成立體很重要的要件。

洪新富的紙藝，除了完全不用黏貼之外，他特別強調要先用心觀察生態，作品才能夠生動感­人。洪新富選了一條寂寞的紙雕路，多年耐心推動紙藝教學和創意商品的表現，不但被文建­會專書推薦為從傳統出發的文化創意產業楷模，更獲得十大傑出青年的肯定。早已開創個人­與台灣的紙藝傳奇，但是接下來他的紙雕世界還有源源不絕的創意。

《文人政事》透過對紙雕藝術家黃新富的專訪，讓平凡的紙創造新的驚奇"

台灣宏觀電視


「文人政事」洪新富生態紙雕技藝超群 趣味研發變化多端

Paper cutting master

Like to know how to cut this pieace of art work.  View Master Lee's video, you may learn something new on paper cutting!


「文人政事」剪紙國寶李煥章 熱衷研創教學培養傳人

Paper cutting for Chinese New Year Decoration

Here is a simple example of paper cuting for Chinese New Year Decoration

百變剪紙印春 轉紙不轉剪刀 線條更漂亮