Dedicated to our Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda

Dedicated to our Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda

Hari OM!

This blog is designed to serve as a library of art and craft ideas for our balavihar children. We hope that you will find this site useful. Please feel free to use any (or all) of the projects you see posted here. We ask, however, that you refrain from publishing (in any form) these templates, instructions, and photographs, unless you receive written permission. These projects are being provided for your own personal use or use in the Balavihar classroom.


All art projects are categorized by 1) material, 2) use, and 3) type. For example a Diya greeting card would be under the labels "Paper" and "Cards," while a Lord Hanumaan puppet would be found under "Paper," "Toys and Puppets" and "Gods and Goddesses." Most materials for these projects can easily be purchased from any local craft store — and some projects involve materials you already have laying around the house.


We would love to hear your suggestions and ideas about any of the information you find on this site. And, if you have any projects that you would like to share with other seviks/sevikas, please send a picture of the finished piece, as well as instructions on how to make the project – so we can post it.


Happy Creating!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

OM Pop-Up Card

© 2008 This project is dedicated to Gurudev.
For use in Balavihar classrooms (or personal use) only.
Click on image to view enlarged.

Materials
1 Greeting card 5x7 (and envelope) - cream color
1 Greeting card 4x6 - cream color
2 sheets of Cardstock cream color
1 sheet of gold foil
1 gold gel pen
1 red rhinestone or sequin
Glue stick

Directions
1. Print the image below onto cardstock.
2. Glue sheet of gold foil onto piece of cardstock. This will make a very solid backing for the OM image.
3. Color the OM with gold gel pen and decorate with rhinestone.
4. Cut the OM out -- in a rectagular shape.
5. Glue the OM onto the gold foil.
6. Trim the Gold foil so that there is a border of at least 1/4" around the image.
7. Glue the OM onto the pop-up hinge.


Click on image for full-page view. Print onto cream-colored cardstock.

Posted by CMTC Sevika at 4:22 PM
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