Christmas Countdown Day #9 – Q-tip snowflakes

Q tip snowflake craft

I know we’ve been really late in getting this Q-tip snowflakes craft done, but you know with the weekend rush, and I went into cooking overdrive these couple of days, some things just get left undone! Nevertheless, we finally got it done and here’s how to put this simple craft together. You may have noticed that I’ve selected rather simple crafts with minimal or easy-to-get supplies so that most people would be able to join us in doing our advent activities this year πŸ™‚

We started the activity with cutting the Q tips:

Q tip snowflake craft

Q tip snowflake craft

A wonderful fine motor skill activity for training up those finger muscles

Q tip snowflake craft

A completed snowflake

After we were done with one snowflake, she had other plans:

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And she made a snowflake ‘flower’, complete with stem and leaves.

Q tip snowflake craft

And then it was just experimenting with how white glue looks like on the blue paper:

Q tip snowflake craft

And more ideas from her – coating the Q tip with gold glitter glue:

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So we dotted the snowflake with gold glitter glue:

Q tip snowflake craft

Q tip snowflake craft

Examining the gold glitter on the Q-tip

I think you’d have realised by now that I usually let her take the lead for each activity. Most times, she has other ideas about how the activity should turn out and it really doesn’t matter whether we get a really nice sheet of paper filled with Q-tip snowflakes. It’s the process that matters and I really love her display of curiosity and creativity each time! πŸ™‚

View the original source of inspiration here.

Do check out the full list of advent activitiesΒ I’ve planned for the year here.

 

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Christmas Countdown Day #8 – Glitter Snowflakes

Glitter snowflakes craft

This glitter snowflakes craft was so easy to put together and needs only two basic supplies – glitter and contact paper!

This post comes pretty late as I forgot to take out the extremely curled up contact paper to prep it for the activity. I had to place it under the carpet and under something heavy overnight before it was easier to work with. After straightening out the contact paper, I cut out three snowflakes using this snowflake tutorial. I couldn’t manage to cut very intricate patterns as the folded contact paper became quite thick and hence wasn’t so easy to cut through all the layers.

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All excited to start on the craft!

Thankfully I brought the activity outside the house as my hubby is extremely particular when it comes to mess and it’s glitter we’re talking about! – we all know how difficult it is to get rid of it.

Glitter snowflakes craft

Spreading the glitter on the contact paper

 

Glitter snowflakes craft

Pouring more glitter

After all the glitter snowflakes were done, I brought them into the house and took a photo before sticking them outside our home. It’s so shiny, even in the day! πŸ™‚

Glitter snowflakes craft

Snowflakes pasted outside our home

View the original source of inspiration for this glitter snowflakes craft here.

Remember to check out the full list of advent activities I’ve planned for the year! πŸ™‚

 

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