National Day 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬 is just around the corner, and there’s no better time to share with your children the beauty of being a Singaporean and to celebrate how far we have come as a nation. This is home, where our children are growing up, and as parents, we can help them to get a sense of the value of our history and heritage, and to instill an attitude of national pride in them from an early age.

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Here are five fun crafts you can do with your family, as we count down to our nation’s birthday! 🎂🎂🎂

1. Parade shakers

Materials: Toilet rolls, red and white paper, cardboard (drawing block backing works fine), masking tape, rice/beans/beads (for the “rain” effect), double-sided tape, glue, scissors

Instructions:

• Trace out the circle end of the toilet roll and cut out two circles to place at both ends.
• Tape one side down, ensuring that the hole is completely taped up and covered.
• Pour your rice/beans/beads into the cylinder and tape up the other side completely, using the other circle base.
• Cut red paper to wrap up the sides of the cylinder, and tape in place.
• Cut out stars from white paper, to stick onto the red paper.
• Lastly, apply red paint to the masking taped sides, or use red crayon/colour pencil to colour it.

2. People of Singapore

Materials: 1 x A3 sheet of white construction paper, markers/crayons/coloured pencils, scissors, stickers/embellishments of your choice (eg feathers, buttons, fabric scraps etc)

Instructions:

• Fold the paper into half.
• Draw and cut out the silhouette of a man and woman holding hands, ensuring that the arms extend to the sides (this will allow them to be joined as one piece when you open the paper up).
• Open up the paper, and allow your child to decorate each “person” to his/her fancy.
• This is a great way to introduce them to the different races in Singapore, or to bring his “real” family to life.

3. Ribbon wands

Materials: Red crepe paper, white or red-and-white striped paper straws, glue, scissors

Instructions:

• Cut a 1 inch thick long strip of red crepe paper, and glue one end of the strip to the edge of the straw.
• Twirl to your satisfaction!

4. Star-arising T-shirt

Materials: Freezer paper, iron, scissors, plain white tee, red fabric paint, paintbrushes / sponge applicator

Instructions:

• Draw and cut out your design from a piece of freezer paper.
• Place the paper waxy side down onto the right side of the tee shirt, and iron it down, so that it sticks.
• Apply paint to the exposed fabric, and let dry completely, according to the instructions on the paint bottle.
• Be careful not to paint outside of the paper!
• Gently peel the freezer paper away, and iron the shirt over low heat to set the paint.

5. Paper flags

Materials: White paper (drawing block, construction paper), paper straw, red paint, scissors, glue, scotch tape (optional)

Instructions:

• Cut out a flag to fit your straw.
• Paint the top half red.
• Cut out the crescent moon and stars from more white paper, and glue them onto the red portion of the flag.
• Glue or tape the flag to the straw.

By Dorothea Chow.

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