CRAFT OUT !!!

Craft supplies

11 craft sticks

Rainbow yarn-ribbon (or choose any ribbon you like)

Loaded glue gun

Directions

Take one craft stick and hotglue the ends of 7 another sticks to it (see picture)

Hotglue end of ribbon to wrong side of first stick in the row

Lead the ribbon out and weave over and under all the sticks across

Glue the end of the ribbon on the wrong side of last stick in the row

Now begin over but in another direction, starting with last stick

Continue until the whole length of the craft sticks are woven

Hotglue 1 craft stick under all 7 sticks on the opposite end

Hotglue 2 more ribbons over the ends of 7 sticks

Voila! Great at your own home, great as a gift!

Tips: you might want to use another pattern in weaving, that would give your trivet another look, also you can use not just one ribbon but few. You are more than welcome to improvise with your project!

Craft supplies (baby not included! )

16 mini craft sticks

Toilet paper roll

Craft knife

Loaded glue gun

Acrylic paint – golden, or any you like more

BrushOptional, for bedding: felt scraps – we used 2.5′x4.5′ white felt for sheet, 1′x4.5′ sky-blue felt for pillow (fold it in threes) and 2′x2.5′ white felt for comforter

Directions

Cut toilet paper roll in half by width

Cut 1 half by length so it’s 3′ by circumference

Glue 1 craft stick on outer edge of ‘crib’ (see picture)

Start gluing inner surface of crib over with craft sticks

Glue one more stick on outer edge from another side (it’s important you do it after you covered inner surface because you want edges of your crib to be nice and neat

Glue ‘X’-es on the butt-ends

Glue cross-pieces over as you see on the picture

Paint it, let it dry

Now, if you want to have your crib bedded… then bed it! Make few close splits by sides of the sheet so it’s like fringed

Put the baby that you have to the crib. If you do not have it, you can mold it with air-dry clay. Serene nights to you!

Crafts supplies (necklace on the picture not included)

Empty check box

Tissue paper

Scissors

Tape

1 big matching pom-pom

Directions

Trace the box on tissue paper, cut it out, set aside

Wrap both under box and the lid separetely with tissue paper (you can use 2 different colors but they still better be matching

Secure paper ends with tape

Put rectangle that you cut out inside on the bottom

Glue pom-pom on the lid.

Now put anything that fit inside and gift! This box is great for any Holiday, only wrapping varies

Create a couple so they could be friends! Because of long legs they are so funny movable!

Craft supplies (for 1)

Styrofoam ball

Acrylic paint, brush

Awl

4 chenilles (pipe cleaners)

8 pony beads to secure ‘feet’

2 googly eyes

Red marker

Loaded glue gun

Directions

Paint styrofoam ball desirable color

Make 4 reach-through holes in the ball by sides

Extend chenilles through the holes so you (well, not you but spider) has 4 pairs = 8 legs

Thread beads on the chenilles and curl the ends so they are secured

Curve the legs so your spider has ‘knees’ and ‘ankles’

Hotglue eyes

Draw smile with red marker

Now try to drop him on the table from about 2 feet height and see how funny he can squat!

Craft supplies (for 1)

1 straw 4′ hat from craft store
Acrylyc paint
Brush
1 foam sheet
Scissors
Loaded glue gun
2 googly eyes
1 cut of red chenille (pipe cleaner)
Glitter glue pen (optional)

Directions

Put the hat in the middle of foam sheet and draw 8 legs around it
Paint the hat that color what the sheet is
While it dries, cut out the octopus’ body
Glue the hat (supposed to be head ) in the middle of body
Glue eyes, mouth, decorate legs with glitter
To hang your ocean friend on the wall, glue a hoop on the wrong side of body, or just use 2-sided tape
Enjoy your art piece!

Craft supplies

1 kitchen towel roll
0.5 white foam sheet
1 styrofoam ball or white pom-pom
White acrylic paint
brush
Craft knife
scissors
black marker
stickers – American (or any other!) flags, round faces
Glue gun and glue stick, or craft glue – optional

Directions

Paint kitchen towel roll white
While it dries draw wings on foam sheet and cut it out (you can use our template here)
Make 2 through cuts for wings with craft knife (adult help needed!) and 1 cut for tail
Draw windows and stick faces stickers over there
Pull the wings through the cuts, settle
Insert tail into the tail cut
Put flags stickers on the wings and tail
Insert styrofoam ball or pom-pom into the ‘nose’ (you may want to secure it with glue)
Now you are ready to take off! Where to?

Craft supplies

Flexible push mold – family (we had 2 adults and 2 children)

Oven bake clay – beige, about 3 oz, depends on the mold (or different colors, if you prefer not to paint)

Black seed beads – 8 for eyes

Acrylic paint (not needed if you used multicolored clay) – colors that you want to paint them with (what color your clothes are?)

1 picture 4×6’ of an ocean shore or any other beautiful landscape you would like to be on

4×6’ picture frame

Glue gun and glue stick

Directions

Press clay completely into mold. If you use a variety of colors, add colors you want into the section of the mold you want colored, starting from the bottom upward toward the edge

Remove from the mold

Add some details such as eyes (seed beads), noses and smiles (scratch with toothpick), earrings for mom or any else

Tips: the mold we used didn’t have mom’s legs… If you have the same one you can just roll ‘sausages’ yourself

Bake as instructed

While it’s being baked, insert picture in the frame

When figures are ready, let them cool out

Paint as desired (if you used a variety of colors clay, just skip this step) and let it dry

Hotglue figures over the glass

Now display and enjoy! You can change background pictures as often as you want, so your clay family travels!

Craft supplies

Plain t-shirt or a-shirt (white is good!)

1 apple and a knife

Fabric paint – red, yellow, green (you can choose your own colors, we used these to make ‘apple traffic lights’)

Brush

Cardboard

Clothespins

Directions

Insert cardboard between cloths so back cloth won’t be soaked with paint, too

Smooth out front clothe so it’s not wrinkled and pin it to inserted cardboard

Cut apple in half

Paint one half with red

Stamp on the shirt

Wash apple or cut the fine layer off, or just use another half, if you own apple farm

Paint another half yellow

Stamp on shirt

Do the same with third print

Let it dry

Put it on and be proud!

Important: apple seeds don’t always leave prints. If you want them, you might want to paint them separately and then neatly apply on. Or, you can just draw them with brush

Craft supplies

Blue air-dry or baking clay

2 flat shell pieces that can form a sailing boat

Chunky glitter glue – moons and stars (it’s not necessary, use what you have or what you consider will fit!)

Round magnet

Permanent marker

Directions

Mold a sphere, then squeeze it between palms to get ‘cookie’ form

Press in shell pieces transversely to each other – make them form a boat

Press in magnet to the wrong side of ‘cookie’

Let the clay dry or bake it in the oven

Cover blue zone with chunky glitter glue

You can also paint the boat with transparent glitter glue to make it shiny

On the wrong side of your magnet write a name of the place of your vacation (where you actually picked those shells?), and a date

Now put your magnet on the fridge and let your heart be warm every time you see it!

Important: do not put glitter glue on before sending your project to the stove! Only after it’s baked and chilled.

Craft supplies

Egg carton, or egg plastic, or egg styrofoam (one half by length)

Acrylic paint

2 oval googly eyes

1 ‘bump’ from red bumpy pipe cleaner for smile (or red marker to draw it if you wish)

Black marker for eyelashes and brows

1 red pom-pom for nose

5 halves of multicolored pipe cleaners for legs

10 pony beads to secure ‘feet’

Gemstones to decorate (optional)

Scissors

Glue gun, glue stick

Directions

Cut egg carton in halves by length

Color outer side (each bump with different paint or the same, as you wish)

While paint dries out, prepare legs:

Cut pipe cleaner in halves, string pony beads on the ends, curl to secure

Turn your caterpillar-to-be over, hotglue legs across the body, shape them so caterpillar stands, not floats

Hotglue eyes, nose, mouth

Draw eyelashes, brows, freckles J (and mouth, if you didn’t use pipe cleaner for it)

Decorate with gemstones, or beads, or stickers

You can also add ‘crown’ (we used 3-D flower bead, or prepare paper crown and glue it to head)

Voila!