Curious Crafting

Aarav and Piper become mechanics as Mandisa teaches them how to make a bicycle craft out of cardboard. The crafters glue strips of cardboard together and attach paper plate wheels with fasteners, adding staws as spokes. After a bit of decoration, and yarn tassels, the bikes are ready to roll.

There are many occasions to tell someone you love them, so Mandisa gets crafters Sukruti and Ben started on a craft that does just that - a giant paper heart! The kids draw whatever they love most on two paper hearts and then cover them in paint. After the two hearts get stitched together with yarn, they are stuffed with tissue, and love.

Mandisa teaches Olivia and Emerson how to make a fun, dancing puppet craft. The crafters cut the puppets' bodies out of paper, decorate them, and then assemble them with fasteners. After attaching a strings that control the puppets' movements, everyone gets up to show off their moves!

Shai and Luke take a trip under the sea as Mandisa shows them how to make a an Octopus craft that appears to swim. The kids create an undersea scene on painted paper plates, with paper sea weed, coral, and glitter. The paper octopi with yarn tentacles are attached to a popsicle stick so they can move around in their ocean homes.

Mandisa crafts up a slinky Dragon Craft to show her friends Ben and Kiyari, who are then inspired to make their own. The kids each start with the dragon's face, adding feathers, googly eyes, and grinning teeth, before creating a paper chain for its body. Straws are taped to the front and back of the dragon puppets so the kids can make them dance.

In the Crafting Zone, Piper and Aston make adorable Pull Puppy crafts with Mandisa's guidance. The kids each fashion cardboard wheels to a tin can, add pom pom tails, and a paper cup for the head. With a pull of a string, the kids can take their puppy crafts for a walk.

Mandisa shows Gabriela and Michael how to craft a type of slime that's extra fun to play with - floam slime! Starting with glitter glue, the kids stir their ingredients until they can knead the mixture with their hands. Once the white foam beads are added, the slime gets its unusual, crunchy texture.

Aarav and Piper learn that a unicorn hobby horse is even more fun than a regular one, and Mandisa teaches them how to craft ones of their own. They cut out two identical horse heads from paper, painting them pink before stapling them together. The kids each stitch on a mane of yarn, stick on glittery horn, and last but not least, a wooden pole so they can gallop away.

It's not New Years without a party hat - that's why Mandisa helps Michael and Gabriela craft their very own celebratory party hats. They need card stock to each make a cone, then to decorate it with pipe cleaner and tinsel. The kids attach an elastic band to keep the hat secure, and then they are ready to party!

Piper and Austen learn from Mandisa how to make a portrait of a cat whose eyes move from side to side. The first step is drawing the cat's body on paper, then cutting out holes where the eyes will go. After painting the portraits with water colour, the pair each attach a strip of paper with eyes on the back, creating the sly, moving eye effect.

Llamas live on farms, but Mandisa has an idea for a colourful llama craft that can live anywhere. Crafters Katie and Michael start by painting paper plates yellow and cutting them in half to form the bodies. They decorate a paper saddle with stickers and glitter glue before taping on a popsicle stick so they can hold up their new llama friends.

Just in time for the holiday season, Mandisa suggests to River and Claire that they all make a winter holiday tree centrepiece. Recycled cardboard scraps and tubes get stacked to form a tree shape, before the kids paint them green. They add little decorations, strings of beads, and top them off with big paper stars.

Have you ever made a craft of your own face? Mandisa shows Emma and Travis the ropes of how to create a 3D self-portrait. After each painting a colourful background, the kids make their faces with paper that matches their skin tone, then folding it so it pops out of the page. After adding a few of their unique features, the crafters both feel like they're seeing double!

Sukruti and Ben hop into action to learn Mandisa's Bunny Craft that has the ability to jump. The craft involves two cups - the first cup becomes the bunny's face, complete with ears, googly eyes, pipecleaner whiskers, and yarn for hair. The kids fashion elastics to the top cup so it leaps off the other one when it's released.

When Mandisa unveils an enormous snowflake crafted from paper bags, Abbey and Emerson are ready to learn how to make their own. They first glue together paper bags and cut shapes into them so that when the bags are unfolded, they reveal a beautiful big snowflake. The kids paint their snowflakes in rainbow colours, and attach a string so they can hang them up for all to see.

It's fun to imagine what it would be like to fly, so Mandisa helps Daxton and Kaia make a Jet Pack craft that they can wear on their backs. They begin with cardboard and straps, and then each wrap two big recycled bottles with aluminum foil. The pair add felt flames to the bottom and strap everything together before trying their packs on for size.

Mandisa introduces crafters Zack and Claire to a slime craft with the unlikeliest of materials - shaving cream! The gang heads to the slime zone to mix up the usual ingredients to thicken their creation, adding shaving cream to give it a cloud-like texture. When the kids have their slimes finished, all that's left to do is play!

Mandisa gives Kiyari and Sebastian a tutorial on how to create an elephant craft with carboard tubes. They cut the iconic shape of the elephant from a thin piece of carboard before painting everything grey. When dry, they assemble their elephants so they stand tall on their cardboard tube legs, and tie on a tail of yarn.

Mandisa has a new craft to share with Noah and Khamari in the crafting zone - a spider that can climb! The first step is to create a spider from paper circles and bent pipecleaners for the legs. Using a strand of yarn and straws, Mandisa helps the kids engineer a device which allows the critter to crawl when pulled. When they are all finished, the crafters show off their climbing creations!

Daxton and Kaia report to crafting Captain Mandisa, who takes them through the steps of making a Rocking Boat craft. The young crafters fold paper circles which form the body of their boats, allowing them to rock back and forth. They then glue down strips of construction paper to cardstock, creating waves. When the boats are complete, the sailors see if their boats are seaworthy!

In this episode, Claire and Zack don't just get to craft birds - they get to craft birds that perch on their wrists! Mandisa demonstrates how to glue feathers and a paper beak onto a carboard tube to make the birds' bodies. The kids make a bracelet by twisting two pipecleaners so they can wear their new feathered friends on their wrists!

Mandisa has a craft idea for Ben and Kiyari who love watching Autumn leaves turn colour - it's a Fall tree in a box! The kids use pencil erasers to make Fall-coloured paint dots in recycled shoe boxes. They each cut out a tree shape from construction paper and then use a puncher to make tissue paper leaves. When the boxes are sealed and a straw is inserted, the crafters can blow air into their box

Piper and Aston prepare for lift off as Mandisa shows them how to make a rocket launcher craft with recycled squeeze bottles. After decorating the bottles with stickers, the crafters make little rockets from construction paper and straws. A squeeze of the bottles launches the paper rockets into the air!

Mandisa helps Emma and Arjay turn basic tissue boxes into monster crafts in a few steps. Starting with a coat of paint, the kids decorate the outsides of their boxes and then attach paper teeth to create big smiling jaws. After adding styrofoam eyeballs and feathers, these monsters are ready to scare!