Paper robots

I've been trying to find ways to keep my nephew busy when he finishes his school work, anything to keep him away from the tv. So one afternoon we decided to make robots, he loves transformers, watches the cartoons all the time.

This very angry looking transformer was made from a little medicine paper box, I ripped it apart and glued it so the blank side was showing. We drew the hands and legs, painted them with crayons and then glued them on the body. His face is drawn on the box flap and I used a white piece of paper to close the opening, gluing it on the other two side flaps (the kid wanted it glued shut so flies couldn't get in!)
The transformer is accompanied by a very colorful drawing of... you guessed it: a transformer, it's his portrait.

Wishing you a lovely day,
Aleka

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Recycled packaging

While waiting for some clay pieces to dry, we made a few boxes. For our packaging we use the standard craft boxes that we buy but we also make them ourselves from recycling other packaging boxes. That way we recycle something that we would normally throw away and at the same time have boxes in different shape and sizes from the ones we buy.
It's pretty simple packaging, we glue craft paper on the surface and a doily with a hand drawn colorful pattern on the inside but I think it looks pretty cute :-)
I love botanical illustrations, these you can download and frame!
Wishing you a great weekend,
Aleka
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Recycling and Christmas

We thought it would be a great idea to make some Christmas ornaments from paper mache and then give them to our nephew's kindergarten. Using cookie cutters and pulp made from newspaper and envelopes from bills we made ornaments shaped like a boot, a star and a round bauble. Because of the envelopes they have a bluish hue and not the typical grey that you get from newspapers, there are also bits of other colors popping here and there which gives them a great texture.

We figure each kid will take a set of two ornaments so they can paint them themselves and put them on their Christmas tree. We are still in the process of making them while the first batch dries, we've been using the oven to speed up the drying as it's been a cloudy day today. Once they have dried we'll make a hole and tie a string so they can be hang on the Christmas tree.

Wishing you all a great day, 

Aleka

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