Home Crafts Honor

Household Arts

Requirements

1. Collect and sort at least 10 disposable materials and use them to make handicrafts.

   Answer: With the help of an adult: 1) Gather 10 types of clean discards (PET bottle, bottle cap, paper roll, egg carton, yogurt pot, newspaper, stick, can, piece of cloth, cardboard). 2) Wash and dry everything. 3) Separate them into groups: plastic, paper, metal, and cloth. 4) Choose some and make a little craft, like a pencil holder with the can or a little vase with the PET bottle. 5) Show your collection and what you created. — Reusing materials helps take care of the planet and sparks creativity.

2. Design and build a sculpture or assembly using toothpicks or ice cream sticks.

   Answer: With an adult: 1) Choose what you are going to build (a little house, a star, or a picture frame). 2) Get ice cream sticks (or toothpicks) and white glue or hot glue with the adult's help. 3) Glue the sticks one by one following the shape you chose. 4) Wait for it to dry well. 5) Paint it or decorate it your own way. — Building with sticks trains hand coordination and patience.

3. Make four works in fabric, using two of the following techniques:
   • Appliqué;
   • Crochet;
   • Cross-stitch;
   • Knitting;
   • Embroidery;
   • Sewing on buttons (10 different types).

   Answer: With the help of an adult: 1) Choose two techniques that are easier for your age, like simple embroidery and sewing on buttons. 2) Make four little crafts in total using these two techniques (for example: two small embroideries on a little cloth and two pieces with buttons sewn on). 3) Use a blunt or plastic needle and thick thread to start. 4) Always ask for help when handling a needle. 5) Show the four finished pieces. — Working with fabric and thread develops skill with your hands and attention.

4. Decorate a bottle or another glass container, to use as a utilitarian or decorative piece.

   Answer: With an adult: 1) Wash and dry a glass bottle or little jar well. 2) Choose how to decorate it: wrapped string, paint, colored paper, or scraps of cloth. 3) Apply glue and slowly stick things on or paint. 4) Let it dry. 5) Use the finished piece as a little flower vase, a pencil holder, or a decoration. — Decorating the glass turns a container into something beautiful and useful.

5. Build a magnet ornament for the refrigerator.

   Answer: With the help of an adult: 1) Choose a design (a little flower, a heart, a little animal, or a letter from your name). 2) Make the figure with foam sheet, felt, clay that hardens, or a painted bottle cap. 3) Glue a little magnet on the back with hot glue (the adult helps). 4) Wait for it to dry. 5) Stick it on the refrigerator and watch it hold. — The magnet makes the decoration stick to the metal of the refrigerator.

6. Represent, through collage, a landscape, person, animal, or another theme of your choice, using tiny materials such as seeds, pebbles, scraps of cloth, felt, plastic, leather, wood, etc.

   Answer: With an adult: 1) Choose what you are going to represent (a landscape, an animal, or a person). 2) Draw the outline on thick paper or cardstock. 3) Gather small materials: seeds, little stones, scraps of cloth, felt, and little sticks. 4) Apply glue and fill in the drawing with these materials, like a mosaic. 5) Let it dry and show your collage. — Gluing small materials creates a figure full of textures and colors.