Best Ideas: Gift Wrapping and Craft Material organisation

I enjoy doing gift wrapping and this video show you the way to "Turn your trunk to gift wrapping station - instantly" let individual have a quick way of doing gift wrapping on the go:

"Turn your trunk to gift wrapping station - instantly"
http://www.ivillage.com/my-best-idea?nlcid=hh%7c11-02-2012%7c

I like learning different ways to craft without messy cleanup at the end of the day.  Here is a video link "Genius ways to craft without messy cleanup", and if you have kids at home, you will love this ideas when you do art and craft with them:

 

"Genius ways to craft without messy cleanup"

http://bcove.me/b2s4au3t

DIY Wall Art Projects

18 Amazing (and Totally Doable!) DIY Wall Art Projects For Kids' Rooms

Read More at:

http://www.ivillage.com/diy-wall-art-projects/6-b-430414#ixzz1pl1ZRuac

I like the first idea:

Why I Love It:

The big, bold, colorful letters make me recall a DIY game board in Childhood.  Instead of creating it out of simple embroidery thread and nails, the game board used rubber bands in various colour to achieve the same result. As we need not tie any knot, the process is quick and neat!

I think if teachers or librarians are thinking of using it for school or library displays, they can make a statement on the wall using the same method.  I would imagine that if 100 to 900 DDC Library Call Numbers Guide are in that scale, it will create an impressive look!

Here is the information from the web page that give you a step-by-step guide:

for full details, visit http://www.ivillage.com/diy-wall-art-projects/6-b-430414#ixzz1pl1ZRuac

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What You’ll Need:
Nails, embroidery floss, printer paper and a printer.


How to DIY:

Print a banner of the words you want using a bold sans serif font with straight edges (try Bell Gothic Std Black.)

Hang the banner on your wall, making sure the letters are straight and correctly spaced. Mark all of your nails ¾-inch from the head (that’s how far each one should be hammered into the wall to keep your letters even.)

Put nails into each corner and around the curves of your letters. Carefully tear the paper away being careful not to pull out any nails.

Using your embroidery floss, tie a knot on one nail and wrap it around the letter about seven times, and then tie the end to the same nail. Repeat for each letter until you’re done.

Read More DIY project at  http://www.ivillage.com/diy-wall-art-projects/6-b-430414#ixzz1pl1v1Mot

Enjoy!


Dexterine Ho Soo Miang

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

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