Time for Craft

My son received a flyers from his teachers to take part in a competition with a toy creation. The criteria is that it must come with spring(s) and will make people laugh... We scratched our heads for weeks and brainstormed on the possibilities. At last, we decided to work on a tortoise with a bouncing shell, shaking its tail and surrounded by moving plants, all with springs! I'm glad that all the materials came from the stuffs in my kitchen, from plastic containers of ice-cream, honey, packet food to the plastic balls from health pills. It looks as though I have a big recycle bin there! As usual, I guided my boy on the modelling, cuttings, paintings, sticking and assembling to as far as he can be involved. There were trial and error and times where things fail to work out well, but we persisted to hold on and were able to be flexible enough to change our method (strategy).  When we managed to complete the tortoise, we find ourselves making another project with 

F or the very 1st time, I'm making my aunt a birthday gift. The fact was I just happened to know her birthday peeping at her identity card recently, so it's better late than none. For someone like her who will appreciate what's recycling, will definitely like what I craft for her. HeeHee... Heard of Shrink art ? It is a piece of Polyshrink that looks like a transparency (pvc sheet). Any artwork done on it will shrink 1/4 of its original size when heated up in the oven. The second pix above shown the original size that I've drawn and the shrinked art piece. Amazing right? Since she has just receive a new bunch of keys from her newly upgraded HDB flat, a keychain holder is timely. I chose a cow as it's her horoscope and attached a metal ring and chain recycled from a previous item to make it. Besides the shrink art keychain, I made a stationary holder with a Goosie egg mosaic art on it out from a toilet paper tube again. Next, was a special bookmark,