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Chess Set

It’s World Chess Day on July 20 – make your own chessboard and chess pieces to celebrate!

You will need: Black paper, white paper, scale, scissors, cutter, pencil and glue

How to make:

1. Draw a border on the white square sheet and divide it into eight equal parts.

2. Similarly, divide the black chart paper into eight equal parts without a border and cut the strips.

3. Slit the white paper and weave the black strips on it like a mat.

4. Glue the edges. The chess board is ready.

5. For the pieces, cut strips of white paper and roll it.

6. For the king, roll a square and glue the ends. Cut two diamond shapes and glue them as shown.

7. For the queen, roll a square.

8. For the bishop, roll a long triangle, as shown.

9. For the knight, roll a wide triangle, as shown.

10. For the rook, roll a hexagon.

11. For the pawn, roll a square. Make white and black chess pieces.

There you go, your game is ready!

Father’s Day Apron

You will need:

Designer paper, colourful paper, ribbon, a pencil, an eraser, scissor, glue, scale and colourful sketch pens.

1. For the apron, draw two curves on a square designer paper.

2. Cut out the two curves.

3. For the pocket of the apron, cut a rectangle from another designer paper and apply glue on 3 sides of it.

4. Stick the rectangular paper on the bottom of the apron cut-out.

5. Use colourful papers to make cut-outs of a spatula, a knife, a fork and a heart.

6. Insert the paper spatula, knife, fork and heart inside the apron pocket.

7. Take a ribbon of the length that can go around the neck and cut it. Stick the ends, forming a neckband.

8. Stick the neckband on the backside of the apron.

Your Father’s Day Apron is ready!

Veggie Art

You will need: • Vegetables (a Potato, a Lady’s Finger, a Carrot, some Coriander• Knife • Glue • Acrylic Paints • Paper

Cut and Colour Cut the vegetables in half and paint over the exposed portion. You are ready to Potato paint!

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1. Take a sheet of paper and divide it to two equal parts. Leave room for a small flap.

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2. Fold the ‘A’ to ‘C’ along ‘B’ like shown in the image.

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3. Glue the left and right edges. Don’t apply glue on the flap.

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4. Shape the flap like shown in the image.

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Your envelope is ready. Use the vegetables to create colourful patterns on the cover.

3-D Art

You will need:

Mount board, tinted coloured papers, pencil, glue, scale, scissors, marker, double sided foam tape, textured paper, straws.

Tip: Stick the background coloured paper on the mount board to give it support.

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1. Draw the scene that you want on the coloured background paper using pencil. Here we have drawn a bridge.

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2. Draw the other parts of the scene on coloured paper, cut them out, and glue them on the background

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3. Cut straws in varying lengths according to where they have to be pasted and paste them there.

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4. Paste other parts of the scene by putting one, two or more layers of tape under it for the 3-D effect.

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5. Make sure you use different layers of tape to give each component a unique look.

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Use 4 layers of tape for the outer frame, and your 3D artwork is ready to hang on your wall!

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Spring Terrarium

You will need: Transparent jar with a lid, colored tissue paper, small twigs, scissors, glue

How to make:

1. Tear off tiny pieces of green tissue paper and scrunch them into crumpled balls.

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2. Glue the tiny tissue paper balls to the inside of the jar lid.

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3. Next, tear off tiny pieces of colored tissue paper and glue them to the branches of the twig.

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4. Glue the bottom of the twig to the inside of the jar lid with green paper

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5. Carefully place the jar over the tiny tree you have created and screw the lid on.

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Your Spring Terrarium is ready!

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Rubber Band Necklace

You will need: Lots of small rubber bands, strings, ribbon, red colour paper, punch machine, glue, scissors and pencil.

Tip:Instead of rubber bands, use colourful strings to make flowers.

How to make

1. Thread some rubber bands (about 60) through a piece of string that is 5cms long.

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2. Tie the ends of the string into a knot. You will now have a rubber band flower.

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3. Make three more rubber band flowers.

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4. Thread a long string through the four rubber band flowers.

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5. Cut two strips of ribbon, each about 10cms long

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6. Using the punch machine, make a hole on one end of each ribbon.

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7. Thread a ribbon through one end of the string that runs through the rubber band flowers.

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8. Tie a knot as shown. Similarly, thread the second ribbon to the other end of the string.

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9. Draw a heart on the red colour paper and cut it out.

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10. Using the punch machine, make a hole on the top of the cutout.

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11. Write a message for your valentine on the heart.

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12. Tie a string to the heart as shown.

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13. Tie the other end of the string between the rubber band flowers.

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14. To wear the necklace, tie the ends of the ribbon around your neck.

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Your valentine necklace is ready!

Titu Pen Stand

You will need:

Paper cup, colour papers, chenille stick, googly eyes, marker pen, pencil, glue and scissors.

How to make it:

1. Draw an outline of the body of Titu butterfly on a colour paper and cut it out.

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2. With the marker pen, draw details on the cutout as shown. Stick googly eyes.

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3. Cut the chenille stick into two, twist and glue them on the back of Titu’s head as shown. Stick the cutout to the paper cup.

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4. Take another colour paper and fold it in half. Draw one half of Titu’s wings and cut it to get two wings.

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5. Add details to the wings using the marker pen. Stick them to the cup behind Titu’s body as shown.

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Your Titu pen stand is ready!

How To Make an Aqarium Box

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Learn how to make an Aquarium Box with the simplest and easy techniques Enjoy. 🙂

For You Need:

Box
Colour Paper
Pencil
Scissor
Glue
Double-sided Tape
Black pen
Thread
Transparent gelatin Paper
Shells
Transparent Tape

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Magazine Rack

You will need:

Mountboard,
acrylic paint,
paint brush,
pencil, scale,
glue and scissors.

1. Place the magazine on a sheet of mountboard and cut around it so that the cutout is slightly bigger than the magazine.

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2. Make two more rectangular cutouts that are narrower but about the same height as the cutout in step 1. These will form the sides of the rack.

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3. Make another rectangular cutout for the base using the measurements from the previous two cutouts as shown.

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4. Stick the cutouts from Step 2 along the sides of the cutout from Step 1 as shown. Then stick the base as well.

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5. Cut two thin strips from the mountboard and stick to the front of the rack. Paint the rack.

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Now you can put in your favourite Champak magazine in your very own magazine rack!

How To Make Funny Animal Bookmarks

Materials Required:

Coloured Paper
Acrylic Paint
Foam Sheets
Paint Brush
Pencil
Black Pen
Cutter
Magnet
Glue
Plastic Eyes
Scissors

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Christmas Tree Gift Box

You will need:

Green paper, a pencil, a pair of scissors, glue, ribbon and red decorative leaves.

How to make:

1. Fold the green paper into half. Draw a Christmas tree with a base as shown in the picture. Cut it out.

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2. Take another sheet of green paper. Place the cutout on it, trace its outline and cut it.

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3. Fold the edges of the Christmas tree cutouts as shown.

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4. Cut the edges of one of the cutouts and stick it onto the other.

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5. Make holes at the top of the Christmas tree. Put a ribbon through this hole.

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Your Christmas tree gift-box is ready!

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Materials Required:

Ice cream Sticks
Glue
Mount Board
Lights
Golden Acrylic Paint
Scissors
Brush
Pencil

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Meander book

The meander motif is named after the river Meander, a river with many twists, mentioned by Homer in Iliad.This motif is also known as the Greek key or Greek fret.

To make your own meander book-

You will need:

A 4 size paper, thick coloured paper, scissors and glue

Method:

1. Fold the paper into half along the dotted line from left to right.

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2. Unfold and bring both the edges of the paper to the center.

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3. Now repeat the steps 1 and 2, this time by folding the paper from top to bottom. You should have 16 rectangles like these.

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4. Cut along the red lines as shown in the picture. We have marked the rectangles of the first row as a, b, c, d. Fold each rectangle forward like a fan till you reach the end of the first row. So ‘a’ goes over ‘b’ and keep folding forward till you reach ‘e’. Now fold d’ behind ‘e’ and keep going forward.

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5. Cut two rectangles 6 x 8 cms and stick on either sides of your meander book as covers.

Fill your meander book

You can write a story, poem or use it as a scrapbook. Cut out! pictures you like from old newspapers and magazines. Write down interesting facts you learn or quotes you read. Carry it to school or keep it on your desk, there’s so much you can do.