Curious Crafting

2022 TVG 1 Season

Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. Host Mandisa Watts, leads a rotating cast of young kids making magic out of common household objects.

Directed by: Chloe Gray
Cast: Mandisa Watts
Genre: Educational · Kids · Kids Series

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40 Episodes

1 - Paper Plate Dinosaur 4 min

Mandisa brings a dinosaur to life as a paper plate craft, and shows you how to make it in a few fun easy steps. Roar!

2 - Waddling Penguin 4 min

Penguins get around by waddling, so Mandisa has made a penguin craft from a paper plate that does just that.

3 - Cardboard Tube Owls 4 min

Hoot hoot! Mandisa shows the fun of using recycled items by turning a toilet paper roll into a new owl friend. With some coloured yarn, big googly eyes and feathers for wings, the owls are ready to take flight!

4 - Milk Carton School Bus 4 min

Mandisa shows us what you can do with an empty milk carton – paint it yellow and turn it into a school bus! You will need to add wheels, construction paper windows and a red stop sign for safety.

5 - Jumping Frog 4 min

Have you ever seen a craft that jumps? Mandisa shows us how to make a frog craft that can leap right off the table! With the power of some cups and elastic bands, our green, amphibian friends achieve major lift off.

6 - Torn Paper Bee 4 min

Today in the crafting room Mandisa reveals a super fun bee craft. This bee is made with torn pieces of black and yellow construction paper, which give it a fun texture. That and the cupcake liner wings!

7 - Cardboard Tube Giraffe 4 min

What zoo animal has spots and a looooong neck? Mandisa shows you how to fashion a giraffe craft with a paper towel roll neck, yellow construction paper, and brown paint for spots.

8 - Unicorn Hand Puppet 4 min

Unicorns are mythological creatures that make fun hand puppets to play with. Mandisa shows us how to make their own with purple construction paper, rainbow yarn for the mane, and most importantly a sparkly golden horn!

9 - Paper Bag House 4 min

Mandisa shows us how to make your own dream house craft with a paper bag using construction paper!

10 - Teddy Bear Bag 4 min

Mandisa shows us that some crafts can be worn! She makes her own fashionable Teddy Bear bags with a single paper plate, supplies to create a face, and a bit of string to use as a strap.

11 - Paper Plate Ice Cream Cone 4 min

Mandisa creates crafted cones that are made from paper plates and all sorts of fun toppings, including cherry pom poms and cardboard waffle cones painted using a potato masher.

12 - Rocking Shark 4 min

Mandisa makes a Rocking Shark – a folded paper plate that rocks back and forth, making it look like it’s swimming in the ocean. After a bit of painting, it will need fins and some sharp-looking teeth!

13 - Cardboard Box Firetruck 4 min

Fire truck craft to the rescue! Mandisa shows us how to make a cardboard box can make a good Fire truck with a coat of red paint and some bottle caps for sirens and paper ladders stuck to the side!

14 - Puffy Paint Cupcake 4 min

Mandisa shows how we can make a rainbow cupcake with “puffy paint” – fun paint made from shaving cream, glue and food colouring that jumps off the page. The puffy paint and bead sprinkles make for cupcake crafts that look almost good enough to eat.

15 - Water Bottle Piggy Bank 4 min

With a piggy bank made from a recycled plastic water bottle, Mandisa introduces a craft that helps us save money and the environment! She uses pink construction paper, beads for hooves, and a curly pipe cleaner tail.

16 - Glowing Firefly 4 min

Mandisa lights up the craft room with a fun firefly craft. It may be as simple as putting a glow stick in a recycled water bottle, but the real shine comes from the crafters’ decorating skills.

17 - Paint Splat Monster 4 min

It can be fun to paint carefully, but it’s also fun to let loose and make a mess! Mandisa shows us how to make a Paint Splat Monster by folding a piece of paper with splattered paint and creating a fun design.

18 - Stain Glass Window Snowman 4 min

Mandisa has an idea for a snowman that can be made all year round. She shows us how to turn its tummy into a stain glass window that looks pretty when the sun shines through it.

19 - Pop Up Rocket Ship Card 4 min

Sometimes you can make a card for someone that’s also a craft! Mandisa makes a cool rocket ship card that pops up when you open it. But this craft doesn’t require any complex engineering to blast off – just some paper and your best folding skills.

20 - Milk Carton Bird House 4 min

Is it a bird? No, it’s a birdhouse craft that looks like a bird! Mandisa teaches us how a used milk carton can be converted into a craft that looks like a bird= but acts as a home for our real bird friends.

21 - Bumble Bee Windsock 4 min

With an adorable bumble bee windsock craft, you’ll always know which way the wind is blowing. Mandisa shows us how to make their own with a toilet paper roll and some paper and yellow streamers that blow in the wind.

22 - Paper Bag Zebra Puppet 4 min

Paper bags make the perfect hand puppets, especially when we make them into an animal friend. Mandisa hits the crafting room to make some Zebra puppets with white paper lunch bags and a sponge to paint on black stripes.

23 - Coffee Filter Butterfly 4 min

Mandisa lets us in on a crafting secret: coffee filters and clothespins can be used to make a butterfly! For this craft, washable markers and water create beautiful tie-dye designs on the coffee filter wings.

24 - Tissue Paper Crab 4 min

Mandisa makes a tissue paper crab craft! All it takes is some cutting with the help of a parent or guardian, a bit of gluing, some scrunched up tissue paper, and a pair of googly eyes of any size.

25 - Water Bottle Airplane 4 min

An empty water bottle is the perfect reusable material for an “air craft”. Mandisa shows us how to make their very own airplane with a bottle, construction paper and glue. It even has a paper propeller that spins!

26 - Paper Chain Snake 4 min

Don’t be afraid of today’s snake craft – it’s a friendly snake with a paper chain body! Mandisa demonstrates for us how to make a chain out of construction paper. Adding a red forked tongue helps us know which end is the head and which is the tail.

27 - Cupcake Liner Flowers 4 min

Who knew cupcake liners were great for crafting? Mandisa demonstrates to us how multi-coloured cupcake liners can be flattened and trimmed into flower petals and how simple craft sticks make the perfect stems.

28 - Paper Ladybug 4 min

Mandisa presents a craft idea that features red with black spots. A paper ladybug! Mandisa shows us how to fold red construction paper to make the bugs three dimensional.

29 - Cardboard Box Robot 4 min

Bleep Bloop! Mandisa shows Vanier and Colette how to build a robot, and it’s not as hard as you might think. All they need is some paint, multicolored foam shapes for buttons, and an empty granola bar box to make its body.

30 - Scrunch Paper Octopus 4 min

What has 8 arms and swims in the ocean? Mandisa shows her friends Colette and Hugo how to make an Octopus with four popsicle sticks and a scrunched up ball of tissue paper. The kids see for themselves which supplies would make the most realistic suction cups.

31 - Salad Spinner Lion 4 min

Mandisa shows us that sometimes the things we need for a cool craft are right in our own kitchens. Using a salad spinner and paint, she creates the most important part of a lion craft – the mane!

32 - Cotton Pad Turtle 4 min

Mandisa shows us how to make our own turtle from a cardboard box and cotton pads. It’s okay to craft at your own pace, just like a turtle!

33 - My Face 4 min

Using a paper plate as thee base, Mandisa chooses from buttons, yarn, pom poms and different colours of paint to create ta self-portraits.

34 - Rainbow Dragon 4 min

In the crafting room, Mandisa presents a rainbow fire-breathing dragon. She uses a toilet paper roll as the head and attaches multi-coloured tissue streamers as flames.

35 - Farm Animal Puppets 4 min

The crafting room turns into a barn as Mandisa shows us how easy it is to create a family of farm animal finger puppets. All she needs are round bits of paper, some googly eyes and a circle punch for finger holes.

36 - Wooden Spoon People 4 min

Mandisa shows us how to make wooden spoon people to play with. This fun craft lets the kids dress their little friends up in colourful clothes using spare scraps of fabric.

37 - Cardboard Tube Crocodile 4 min

Mandisa shows us how to make a croc friend out of things at home we might normally throw away: a paper towel roll body, bubble wrap for scales and even bottle caps for eyes. These materials are magically transformed under a simple coat of green paint.

38 - Cupcake Liner Fish 4 min

In the crafting world, cupcake liners have so many uses – like forming the scales of a colourful fish. Mandisa demonstrates to us how to make a fish from a paper plate painted with water colours before attaching the scales.

39 - Jellyfish Suncatcher 4 min

Mandisa has a craft version of a Jellyfish that is also a Suncatcher. Learn how to make a see-through Jellyfish with coloured tissue and contact paper that looks pretty in the sunshine.

40 - Paper Bag Fox Puppet 4 min

Mandisa introduces us to her Paper Bag Fox Puppet! With a couple of paper bags, some orange paper, and a bit of imagination, the kids create a whole family of foxes!