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A Marvellous Motor Car

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Two clean and dry juice or milk boxes, some thin, flexible write, four matching plastic bottle caps, modelling clay, scissors, a magic marker, sellotape, and paint.

 1. Draw the front and the windows of your car on one of the empty boxes.

2. Cut along the lines you have drawn. Ask an adult for help, if you need to.

3. To complete the front of the car, cut out the side of the second box. Then fold it and attach it to the front opening with sellotape.

4. Cut open the front window from the piece untitled3you have just attached.

 5. Make a hole in the centre of each of the four caps.(Ask an adult for help, if you need to)

6. Paint the car with your favourite colour. Make two small holes near the bottom of each side, for the wires that will hold the wheels together.

7. Run a piece of wire through a cap, then through two facing holes and the car’s sided. Place another cap on the other end of the wire. Do the same for the other two wheels. Cover the wire ends with little balls of modelling clay.untitled7

8. Step on the gas! Ride ahead!

Use your imagination: You can use juice boxes or milk containers to make all sorts of vehicles. Try making a train with small bottle caps, a bus with medium-size caps, or use really big bottles caps to make a tractor!

 by Kurt Bonnici

A Playtime Pinwheel

You’ll need

Two square sheets of different coloured chart paper (these could be made from old wrapping papers), a paper clip, a round piece of chart paper, a wooden or heavy cardboard rod, a cork and glue.

 

1. Place the coloured paper sheets one on top of the other.

2. Make four cuts at the corners and put glue on every alternate tip.

3. Open up the paper clip like this {Ask an adult for help if you need to}.

4. Bend and glue the same-colour tips together like this.

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5. Assemble the clip, the round piece of chart paper, the pinwheel, the rod, and the cork as shown.

6. Now, give it a blow and made it spin!

Use your imagination: You can make ’special effects’ as your pinwheel turns, by painting or drawing circles on the spokes. You could even decorate it with glow-in-the-dark stickers!

by Kurt Bonnici

HOW TO MAKE A ROCKET OUT OF RECYCLED THINGS

You need:

  • Poster colours
  • Used paper
  • Cereal box
  • Glue
  • Scissors
  • An empty kitchen towel roll
  • 2 empty toilet paper rolls

Method :

1.  Glue the kitchen roll with the two toilet paper rolls.

2. Cover them with used paper.

3. Cut a circle from the cereal box and fold it to make a cone.

4. Glue it on top of the kitchen roll to make the point of the rocket.

5. Paint the rocket with your favourite colours.

6. When the paint is dry you can play with it.

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by Gianluca Busuttil

Il-Via Sagra (tkompli)

Kulħadd penġa stampa tal-passjoni ta' Kristu

Kulħadd penġa stampa tal-passjoni ta' Kristu

Ġesu' miet għalina

Ġesu' miet għalina

Il-Via Sagra (tkompli)

Gesu'bata ħafna għalina

Gesu'bata ħafna għalina

Ġesu' bis-Salib

Ġesu' bis-Salib

Il-Via Sagra

Aħna tlabna quddiem il-kurċifiss

Aħna tlabna quddiem il-kurċifiss

Environment - Re-Use, Reduce, Recycle

How to make a craft by RE-USING and REDUCING waste.

 

    For a Pencil holder, you need:

 

a) a piece from an empty cereal box

b) a small roll of toilet-paper

c) a big roll of toilet-paper                        

d) a pair of  scissors

e) tape

f) a piece from 2 different old wrapping paper

 

How to do a Pencil  holder:finishblg1

 

First cut a piece shaped like a square from the cereal box and cover it with the wrapping paper. Then cut 2.5cm from the big roll, to have three rolls in all. Cover all the rolls with the wrapping paper, even the 2.5cm one. When you are ready, stick the rolls on the piece of cereal box with the tape around them and your Pencil Holder is ready!

 

 

Click on this link if you do not see the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr4fJUYVwA4

 

 

A paper aeroplane

 

 You will needcrafts

a used paper from both sides.

 

 

 

1 Make a crease down the centre of a used paper.

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  2 Fold down one top edge towards the centre of the paper but not reaching the crease line. Repeat the same with the other top edge. Both turned down top edges should reach the same level.pic21

3 Fold down again, this time reaching the crease line.pic3

 4 Fold along the crease line enclosing all edges inside. Fold the slanting edges onto the crease line. Open up both slanting edges so that you have two aeroplane wingscrafts-2

 by Manwel Abela

Wirja dwar il-Belt Valletta.

Il-mudell tal-Konkatidral ta' San Ġwann jinħadem

Il-mudell tal-Konkatidral ta' San Ġwann jinħadem

It-tfal jaħdmu fuq il-'blog'

It-tfal jaħdmu fuq il-'blog'

Xogħol fuq il-monument tal-Qanpiena tal-Belt

Xogħol fuq il-monument tal-Qanpiena tal-Belt

Fotografija ta' Desiree Gauci u Josianne Borg

Fotografija ta' Desiree u Josianne

Il-faċċata tal-Konkatidral ta' San Ġwann tinħadem bis-sulfarini

Il-faċċata tal-Konkatidral ta' San Ġwann tinħadem bis-sulfarini

Din il-blog tittella' fuq l-internet

Din il-blog tittella' fuq l-internet

Jum il-Belt  Valletta  huwa  fit-28  ta’  Marzu għax fit-28  ta’  Marzu  1566, bdiet  tinbena l-Belt  Valletta.

Dakinhar is-Sindku tal-Belt se jiftaħ wirja dwar il-Belt Valletta fl-iskola tagħna. Dawn huma t-tfal tal-klassi tagħna jaħdmu fuq il-proġett.

Kitba: Clivert, Umma u Madlene

Fotografija: Desiree u Josianne

Craft: Isaac u Brentley

The Robin

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Another Dinja Wahda activity is making a pom pom robin.

We used cardboard to make cardboard rings.

Next the teacher told us to buy white, brown and orange wool for the robin.

The teacher told us to divide the circle in three  parts. Then we put the  the wool around the cardboard rings.

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 We kept winding the  wool round the cardboard until our fingers couldn’t pass through any more.

When we finished we cut round the outer edge.

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 Then we made a space beetween the two cardboards and tied them with wool.

We removed the cardboard circles, and stuck the eyes and nose on it.

Finally we trimmed it for a neater finish.

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Encourage your teachers to do this activity.

AND REMEMBER… We shouldn’t harm robins but enjoy looking at them only!!