Of puzzles and gol lights!

May 18, 2010 at 3:48 pm (Submissions to Artsy Craftsy)
Tags: May Challenge

The theme for the Artsy-Craftsy @ Shruti’s is Thermocol.  Since I had two thermocol sheets from a mail package received earlier, I used one of them to create a puzzle for Na. She loves solving puzzles, so added another to her pool 🙂  The puzzle is very easy to make, cutting the thermocol even easier. Just heat up a knife and slice away. The heated knife will cut the thermocol sheet up like butter( I owe this peice of information to my art teacher Ms. Aruna! Thanks Ms. Aruna!)

The picture –

For the second submission, I took  some thermocol padding that we got when we purchased solar lights for the garden. The padding had nice concentric circles in the front and I got the idea of putting lights behind so that it would become kind of a night light.  I painted them in very simple colours, the first one is a combination of dark brown, yellow and green. The second one light brown with some designs etched with a sharpie pen!  For the lights behind any kind of serial light would do.  I have behind mine, our christmas/diwali lights 🙂

This can be easily done by any 7-10 year old, especially the first one since all it involves is painting!  I have yet to mount it up in the bedroom(the reason for creating these lights), but since I am going to be away for the next couple of days, I decided to put up the submission and then decorate my wall with these lights!

In the above picture, the first two are the pictures of the dark brown one, and the second two are the pictures of the light brown one. The photo showing the groves is the back of the thermocol padding, but I think any thermocol padding in the shape of a box will do just fine for the night lamps 🙂 and your child will have the satisfaction of having created it on their own!

Tata!

PS: updated to add more photos of the light, since one of my friends called up to say the photos were not clear enough!