Christmas Flower Memo Clip
Today's the last day of school and it's party day for the kids at school. We did some candy cane butterfly for my son's classmates.
His Chinese Teacher will still be teaching him next year but not for his English Teacher, Mrs Eunice. She is a really good teacher. My son kept telling me Mrs Eunice taught me this and that. Hopefully, his new English Teacher will be as good as Mrs Eunice.
Anyway, we did Christmas presents for the teachers too for all the hard work and patience they put in to nurture the kids. I told my son it's Christmas Flowers that we are doing so we are going to paint it in shades of red but he wanted it in blue and green too. He said they looked more like pinwheels and wind mills! Oh well!
We had planned to paint the base too but the clay took longer than we thought to dry, so we had to leave it unpainted. I should have put them in the oven to bake it. Anyway, we do hope the teachers like it.
Materials needed:
- 8 Penne Pasta
- 2 Ice Cream Sticks
- 1 Clothes Peg
- 1 (adult) handful Paper Clay
- Paints
- Glitters (optional)
- *Gun glue to be handled under supervision or by an adult
How to do it:- Paint the penne pasta.
- Sprinkle glitters while they are still wet.
- Leave them aside to dry.
- Put some gun glue on one (open) end of one penne pasta.
- Stick it to the back of the 'back' of a second penne pasta will the open end facing outwards.
- Repeat till all eight penne pasta are joined together.
- Spread more gun glue on the centre of the joined pasta flower.
- Stick the two ice cream sticks together side by side to the middle of the pasta flower.
- Spread on one side of the clothes peg with gun glue.
- Press it on to the top middle of the two ice cream stick, with the end able to gasp pointing up.
- Side aside.
- Roll the paper clay to shape.
- Stick the end of the ice-cream stick into the blob of paper clay.
- Set aside for the clay to dry and you can paint the base.
- Once the project is completely finished and dried, you can use it to clip paper or light object using the clothes peg behind.
* X'mas Flower Memo Clip *
