This document provides instructions for making various crafts related to Chinese culture. It includes directions for making paper lanterns, snakes, a ceiling snake, a Chinese flag, a Chinese New Year fan, a Peking Opera mask, and practicing Chinese calligraphy. The crafts allow one to explore traditional Chinese symbols and designs through hands-on creative activities.
Personal branding - School of Management 2013Matthew Mobbs
Delivered at the 2013 Summer School, Elizabeth and myself delivered this 3 hour training session. With the focus on understanding what your personal brand is and how to communicate it using social media
Poster designed for the University of Leicester Learning and Teaching Conference 2014, explaining the institution relationship with FutureLearn and the development of the first 2 MOOCs
Personal branding - School of Management 2013Matthew Mobbs
Delivered at the 2013 Summer School, Elizabeth and myself delivered this 3 hour training session. With the focus on understanding what your personal brand is and how to communicate it using social media
Poster designed for the University of Leicester Learning and Teaching Conference 2014, explaining the institution relationship with FutureLearn and the development of the first 2 MOOCs
Let's make CAPING, a cone shaped hat often worn by Javanese farmers. CAPING is often worn by farmers in Bali and other places in Indonesia also. Many farmers in few South East Asia countries wear a cone shaped hat similar to CAPING as well. Caping is originally made of woven bamboo. It is light and has a wide brim, a perfect way to protect the farmer's face, ears and neck from the harsh sun and rain.
A lanyard for your keys
Do you keep your keys on a lanyard? I started a couple of years ago when I was in and out of the car with a baby in a capsule and a small child. I needed two free hands and easy access to car and front door keys. The long length of lanyard could always be grabbed on the way out, then slung around my neck when shuffling between front door, car, pram, drop off point.
Even if you’re not juggling those things, I think it’s worth having keys at the ready when you’re getting in and out of your home or car. Less time spent rummaging through the dark bottomless pit of a handbag alone, the better.
However, fast forward a couple of years and I still seem to be sporting the same freebie lanyard with a logo of a football team. With red and white stripes, it clashes perfectly with most of my clothes. Nice accessory! (not).
Time for the “eye catching” lanyard to go and be replaced with something more appealing. Since tassels are the thing right now, they are the decorative detail to add to a key ring and then make a lanyard.
Making the Tassel
There are different way to tackle tassel-making depending upon whether you use thread or cut leather. For this tutorial I used the tassel making technique perfected here by Fall for DIY (blog) when they ran a “tassel happy challenge” on Instagram. I’ve used Francesca’s cardboard template design. It’s a bit like making a pom pom.
I’ve also played around with different styles for tying them together, embellishing (decorating) and attaching the tassel to a clip. Do the same and see what you prefer.
Enjoy having a smart tassel lanyard for your keys.
A note about materials
I bought some “D” ring clips from Lincraft (Haberdashery and Craft supplies in Australia) but you can easily use metal circle clips, or swivel hooks. I’ve re-used the swivel hooks from old promotional lanyards.
I also used a copper adhesive tape for effect on the tassel. My roll came from Japan, but you can buy copper and aluminium tape at hardware stores. Otherwise fabric tape is another option.
I’ve used mock-suede leather thonging I found from haberdashery supplies, but real leather thonging would be a nicer option.
Let's make CAPING, a cone shaped hat often worn by Javanese farmers. CAPING is often worn by farmers in Bali and other places in Indonesia also. Many farmers in few South East Asia countries wear a cone shaped hat similar to CAPING as well. Caping is originally made of woven bamboo. It is light and has a wide brim, a perfect way to protect the farmer's face, ears and neck from the harsh sun and rain.
A lanyard for your keys
Do you keep your keys on a lanyard? I started a couple of years ago when I was in and out of the car with a baby in a capsule and a small child. I needed two free hands and easy access to car and front door keys. The long length of lanyard could always be grabbed on the way out, then slung around my neck when shuffling between front door, car, pram, drop off point.
Even if you’re not juggling those things, I think it’s worth having keys at the ready when you’re getting in and out of your home or car. Less time spent rummaging through the dark bottomless pit of a handbag alone, the better.
However, fast forward a couple of years and I still seem to be sporting the same freebie lanyard with a logo of a football team. With red and white stripes, it clashes perfectly with most of my clothes. Nice accessory! (not).
Time for the “eye catching” lanyard to go and be replaced with something more appealing. Since tassels are the thing right now, they are the decorative detail to add to a key ring and then make a lanyard.
Making the Tassel
There are different way to tackle tassel-making depending upon whether you use thread or cut leather. For this tutorial I used the tassel making technique perfected here by Fall for DIY (blog) when they ran a “tassel happy challenge” on Instagram. I’ve used Francesca’s cardboard template design. It’s a bit like making a pom pom.
I’ve also played around with different styles for tying them together, embellishing (decorating) and attaching the tassel to a clip. Do the same and see what you prefer.
Enjoy having a smart tassel lanyard for your keys.
A note about materials
I bought some “D” ring clips from Lincraft (Haberdashery and Craft supplies in Australia) but you can easily use metal circle clips, or swivel hooks. I’ve re-used the swivel hooks from old promotional lanyards.
I also used a copper adhesive tape for effect on the tassel. My roll came from Japan, but you can buy copper and aluminium tape at hardware stores. Otherwise fabric tape is another option.
I’ve used mock-suede leather thonging I found from haberdashery supplies, but real leather thonging would be a nicer option.
1. Chinese paper lanterns
3. Draw a line 2cm from the open
1. Draw a line 2cm from the end of a end of the paper. This is a guide
decorated piece of paper and cut 2. Fold the piece of paper in half length to stop cutting
along the line. Keep this for a handle ways
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5. Unfold the paper and
4. Draw lines 2cm apart from curl the edge together
the fold to the guide line. Then and glue to seal
6. Glue the
cut along these lines strip of
paper you
cut off
before to
make a
handle
2. Snake hand puppet
1. Get an adult to
cut a snakes
forked tongue 2. Glue the tongue
out of card to your sock
3. Decorate your 4. Stick on the
sock to make it googly-eyes
look like a snake
3. Ceiling snake
1. Draw a spiral on a 2. Draw a snake pattern in 4. Put a hole at the tip
piece of paper between the lines with the of your snakes
head in the middle head.
3. Cut along the spiral 5. Tie a piece of string
lines to cut out your through the hole
snake. Ask an adult and hang up your
for help snake
4. Draw a snake and decorate
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/snake_colouring_pages.htm
5. Draw a Chinese flag
1. Draw and colour in a
Chinese Flag
2. Stick your flag
to a straw with
sticky-tape
6. Colour in a Chinese flag
1. Colour in a Chinese
Flag
2. Stick your flag
to a straw with
sticky-tape
7. Chinese New Year Fan
1. 2.
Decorate both side of the
paper Fold the paper length ways
as above
3.
Pinch together at the
bottom to make the fan
8. Chinese new year card
1. Write Happy New
year in Chinese on
the Red card
2. Decorate your card
9. Peking Opera Mask
2. Draw a head
1. Cut the front off shape and
your cereal box decorate you
Peking Opera
mask
3. Cut out your mask. Be careful
when cutting out the eyes 4. Put two hole in
edges of your mask
and tie string to fit
your head
http://hawaiidermatology.com/chinese/chinese-masks-wiki-pedia.htm