Another day before chinese new year and we managed to make another craft. This time is the “FU” wall decorations.
Stella was very excited this morning. Not because we were about to do craft but because it will be her first day going back to school tomorrow – I will have a Pre-schooler in my house! Full 5 days she will be in school!
Anyway, about this wall decoration, we made it with the things that we have lying around the house. So all of it is made from scraps lying around the house.
What you need
Card board
White paper
Stamps
Ink pads
Glue stick
Red packets
Red and yellow/ gold crepe paper
Paper punch (My mum happen to have this beautiful daisy one, or you can cut the paper into any tiny shape)
String
Masking tape
First cut the cardboard into a square (I use a square cake tin as a guide).
Then using a smaller square cake tin I drew a square on a white paper and wrote the chinese character for “FU” in the middle.
Get your stamp and ink pad and stamp away making beautiful pattern as the background. The key is to use just one colour ink. Jake chose blue and Stella chose pink. As for the stamp Jake chose the one with flower and Stella chose butterfly, anything is fine as long as it doesn’t say merry christmas : )
While the kids are stamping, take your red packet and paper punch and punch away as much as you can. The one that I used were a little stiff, so it was a work out.
These punched out daisy is then glue on top of the “FU” to make the character stand out.
Now after that is finished, cut the “FU” square and stick it on to the square cardboard.
Next we added good luck fish. So just draw a simple outline of a fish and decorate with the red packet daisy. I found some gold crepe paper so I added that to the mix. Cut long string of red and gold crepe paper and stick to the tail end of the fish with a masking tape.
Last step, get a long string and lay out the “FU” character on top and the fish underneath it, use masking tape to secure them into position. Maybe you’ll notice that Stella’s “FU” is the right way up and Jake’s is upside down. Either way is ok.
- Stella designed a little chinese girl with gold earring to add to her wall decoration and if you look closely she attempted to write the word “FU” on the body.
Doing all these chinese new year crafts with the kids has been so much fun. It brought back memories of the many chinese new years I spent as a child in Indonesia. Where we would go to my maternal grandparents house for the new year eve dinner. Then the next day we would drive to my paternal grandparents place and spend the new year there with my dad family. So much fun and how I missed those times!
So if there were one thing that chinese new year remind me of it would be one word FAMILY! Family that accepts you and welcomes you with open arms, where you feel comfortable being who you are. And this is what I want my kids to feel! A warm fuzzy feeling that you belong to a family!