Curious Crafting

Mandisa brings a dinosaur to life as a paper plate craft, and shows you how to make it in a few fun easy steps. Roar!

Penguins get around by waddling, so Mandisa has made a penguin craft from a paper plate that does just that.

Hoot hoot! Mandisa shows the fun of using recycled items by turning a toilet paper roll into a new owl friend. With some coloured yarn, big googly eyes and feathers for wings, the owls are ready to take flight!

Mandisa shows us what you can do with an empty milk carton - paint it yellow and turn it into a school bus! You will need to add wheels, construction paper windows and a red stop sign for safety.

Have you ever seen a craft that jumps? Mandisa shows us how to make a frog craft that can leap right off the table! With the power of some cups and elastic bands, our green, amphibian friends achieve major lift off.

Today in the crafting room Mandisa reveals a super fun bee craft. This bee is made with torn pieces of black and yellow construction paper, which give it a fun texture. That and the cupcake liner wings!

What zoo animal has spots and a looooong neck? Mandisa shows you how to fashion a giraffe craft with a paper towel roll neck, yellow construction paper, and brown paint for spots.

Unicorns are mythological creatures that make fun hand puppets to play with. Mandisa shows us how to make their own with purple construction paper, rainbow yarn for the mane, and most importantly a sparkly golden horn!

Mandisa shows us how to make your own dream house craft with a paper bag using construction paper!

Mandisa shows us that some crafts can be worn! She makes her own fashionable Teddy Bear bags with a single paper plate, supplies to create a face, and a bit of string to use as a strap.

Mandisa creates crafted cones that are made from paper plates and all sorts of fun toppings, including cherry pom poms and cardboard waffle cones painted using a potato masher.

Mandisa makes a Rocking Shark - a folded paper plate that rocks back and forth, making it look like it's swimming in the ocean. After a bit of painting, it will need fins and some sharp-looking teeth!

Fire truck craft to the rescue! Mandisa shows us how to make a cardboard box can make a good Fire truck with a coat of red paint and some bottle caps for sirens and paper ladders stuck to the side!

Mandisa shows how we can make a rainbow cupcake with "puffy paint" - fun paint made from shaving cream, glue and food colouring that jumps off the page. The puffy paint and bead sprinkles make for cupcake crafts that look almost good enough to eat.

With a piggy bank made from a recycled plastic water bottle, Mandisa introduces a craft that helps us save money and the environment! She uses pink construction paper, beads for hooves, and a curly pipe cleaner tail.

Mandisa lights up the craft room with a fun firefly craft. It may be as simple as putting a glow stick in a recycled water bottle, but the real shine comes from the crafters' decorating skills.

It can be fun to paint carefully, but it's also fun to let loose and make a mess! Mandisa shows us how to make a Paint Splat Monster by folding a piece of paper with splattered paint and creating a fun design.

Mandisa has an idea for a snowman that can be made all year round. She shows us how to turn its tummy into a stain glass window that looks pretty when the sun shines through it.

Sometimes you can make a card for someone that's also a craft! Mandisa makes a cool rocket ship card that pops up when you open it. But this craft doesn't require any complex engineering to blast off - just some paper and your best folding skills.

Is it a bird? No, it's a birdhouse craft that looks like a bird! Mandisa teaches us how a used milk carton can be converted into a craft that looks like a bird= but acts as a home for our real bird friends.

With an adorable bumble bee windsock craft, you'll always know which way the wind is blowing. Mandisa shows us how to make their own with a toilet paper roll and some paper and yellow streamers that blow in the wind.

Paper bags make the perfect hand puppets, especially when we make them into an animal friend. Mandisa hits the crafting room to make some Zebra puppets with white paper lunch bags and a sponge to paint on black stripes.

Mandisa lets us in on a crafting secret: coffee filters and clothespins can be used to make a butterfly! For this craft, washable markers and water create beautiful tie-dye designs on the coffee filter wings.

Mandisa makes a tissue paper crab craft! All it takes is some cutting with the help of a parent or guardian, a bit of gluing, some scrunched up tissue paper, and a pair of googly eyes of any size.