Awesome Hippopotamus

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The Start :

Get up your imagination and be creative when building these kids crafts or any others.

experiment with new and different ways of putting it together. The most important thing is to have fun.

Bring these thing or similar objects :

*Plastic Container.

*Scissors.

*Masking tape.

* Used toilet paper tubes or Cork (Number 4) .

Some old cardboard or construction paper.*

*Markers or pens .

1-Cut corks:

The first step to making cork legs. You will need to cut the corks at an angle so that the legs will fit on the side of your container.

2- Draw Hippo's body parts:

You will need a pair of eyes, nostrils, ears, and two big hippo teeth. Don't forget the tail! Cut these out when you have some designs you like.

look at Picture :

3- Tape up Hippo's body parts :

Now you can tape on your eyes, ears, teeth and tail.

This cute hippo is easy and fun to make. From here you can decorate your hippo however you'd like.

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4- Dresses Hippo's body parts :

Start out covering everything in a base layer of masking tape. This adds lots of texture to the project.

5- Tape up your body parts:

Next you cover all the body parts in tape, making them easier to color on later.

6- Attach Hippo's body parts:
After covering everything with tape we put on the legs and face just like this :

7- Decorate your Hippo :

The final step is the most fun... Decorating! We decided to make our hippo have a nice muddy complexion, but you can color your hippo any way you like.

The Happy Chickens

Starting:

Now use your imagination and be creative .

We will learn how to make happy chicken such a : 

Bring the next: • Plastic or paper cups (Any size).
• Masking tape.
• Straws.(Number 4) •  Old cardboard Box . •   Scissors . • Markers or pens for customizing.

1-  Draw and cut of parts :

Draw and cut out its feet, beak, wings, tail and comb (that’s the red thing on top of a chickens head), maybe with huge feet or tiny wings. Have fun!.

2- Make a Legs :

Take chicken feet and do a hole in them and paste straw ,
and at both ends of both sides of the straw Make a small body of cardboard and paste while keep to balance legs.

3. Tape on  body parts!

Now you can tape on your wings, beak, tail and comb.

Look at Picture :

4-Dressing cups
covering everything in a base layer of masking tape. This adds lots of texture to the project and covers the labels from the cups.

5- Complete coverage the parts :

Cover all the body parts in tape, to making easier to color on later.

Look at the picture :

6- Cover the legs : 

Now,covered the straw legs in tape to make them look more true.

7- The fun part :

Finally, we got to the moment the most fun and is Decorating!
color of chickens with markers (Any color you like), then put on our goofy eyes last. 

Now we have a chickens and we need to hangar .......
Use your imagination and creativity.

How to make Dozer?!

Beginning :

It's nice that children use their imagination and creativity in making things beautiful craft.

Now,we will learn how to make Dozer in an easy way.

First Bring this objects or similar:

• Toilet Paper Tubes (Number 2).
• A cardboard Box.
• Coloring Tapes.
• Straws.
• Scissors(be careful).

1- Now make bulldozer blade:  

Simply cut one of your Toilet Paper tubes in half the long way,

Looks like a my bulldozer blade ! You can even cut the edges at an angle a little bit to make it even more cool.

2- Make arms:

Stand your blade up on to a piece of cardboard and trace out its circular edge,Then draw out your arm design(about three to four inches long), After drawing arms start cutting them and make a hole for the straw passes through them.
See the picture:

3- Make the axle holes:
make four holes onto your other  Toilet Paper tube, 

(Make it at the same level, So that each hole parallels the other) ,These holes need to be slightly bigger than your straws.
See the picture:

4- Put axles:
cut two pieces of straws increase about 1 inch on each side from tape .
See the picture:

5- Make wheels:
draw four circles on an old box or piece of cardboard (about three inches in diameter) .
Then cut out all four wheels ( Be careful ) and Find the center of each wheel and make a small hole for straw axle to slide through (Don't make the holes too big,the wheels might wobble).  
See the picture:

6- Now, Start to assemble dozer parts :
Installing the back axle straw then slide rear wheels onto it.
Then place front axle straw in and slide both of dozer arm onto it, one on each side.
See the picture:

7- Complete assembly ! Now install your front wheels and make sure the stability of the wheels( add a little tape to hold your wheels on it if they're loose) .
See the picture:

8- Install of blade :
install front dozer blade to both of the arms by Tape .
See the picture:

9- Dress up dozer!
Now, the best part of the fun ... dressing it up! 
Used some Green masking tape. If you don't have or can't get some Green tape, try using regular masking tape and coloring it with a permanent maker.
Disassembled all the pieces and covered everything with Green tape .  See the picture:

10- Reassemble your dozer!
Re-assemble the parts dozer well.
See the picture:

11- Build cabin:
Carefully cut out 4 pieces of cardboard to form its four sides.
Take the piece of Toilet Paper tube that was left over from making Dozer blade and use it for the roof and covered it with Green tape, Make windows on cabin by cut out of some blue masking tape to square and rectangle forms.
For my door, cut out a piece of scrap cardboard and covered it with tape.
See the picture:

12- ِAdd few steps :

tape the cabin on,drew in a few steps so that the dozer operator would be able to climb up to the cabin.

Now your Dozer is ready to start bulldozing stuff around the house.