Inna's Creations

A picture like this can be created together with children using the paper quilling technique. We called this one "Under the sea", and it features sea animals and creatures: fish, a seahorse, an octopus, seashells, sponge tubes, a jellyfish, and a starfish (sea star).

My daughter asked me to make her a bracelet. We've chosen glass beads for it. How to make a simple friendship bracelet step-by-step: Learning to weave bead friendship bracelets (it's in Russian, but the pictures are self-explanatory). The child was satisfied with both the result and the process: she not only enjoyed watching me but also sorted the beads. Another very nice friendship bracelet at Art Projects for Kids  — a wonderful arty blog.

As you probably know, paper quilling or paper filigree can be used for creating greeting cards, decorating objects and even building three-dimensional sculptures. This is a getting started quilling guide, where I'm showing the basics of paper quilling by the example of making a simple flower. The entire process should take about 30 minutes.

It takes no more than 5 minutes to make this relief paper fish.

We made this pizza using some beige paper, paint and fresh vegetables. The idea of vegetable stamps has been taken from the " Nature Printing " book. Kids have lots of fun with them, and they are much easier to make than rubber stamps .

This is an easy-to-make dragonfly craft, made using natural materials: samaras, like maple ones, for the wings, a twig or a stem for the body, and allspice or black pepper for the eyes. Arrange the elements and glue them onto a sheet of white or colored paper.