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

Pop Up Cards




© 2008 This project is dedicated to Gurudev.
For use in Balavihar classrooms (or personal use) only.

Click on image to view enlarged.


This is a fun project to do, using only stickers, paper and glue. The fish pop-up cards are a nice, quick project to go along with the Panchatantra "Tale of the Three Fish." This would also make a really cool project if you have a Ganesha or OM sticker to use.

Materials
Stickers
Card stock
Scissors
Glue Stick
One colored card stock 5 x 6 (folded) This is the outside paper.
One colored card stock 4 3/4 x 5 1/2 (folded) This is the inside paper.

Directions
1. Place sticker (pop-up image) onto cardstock. Cut out and decorate.
2. With the inside paper (4 3/4 x 5 1/2) make two parallel cuts. (Photo A) Do not cut this completely out. The rectagular shape (bar) remains attached to the paper.
3. Fold this bar forward. Crease. Then fold it backwards. Crease. Open the card and push the bar into the card. (Photo B and C)
4. Glue the sticker (pop-up image) onto the face of the bar.
5. Glue the inside paper onto the outside card - one side at a time. (Photo D) Make sure that you do not glue the cut out area. Otherwise, your image will not pop-up.



Photo A


Photo B


Photo C


Photo D
Posted by CMTC Sevika at 4:26 PM
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