Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts

Friday, September 4, 2015

Paper Goods Projects


Craft to your heart’s content without making a trip to a specialty store.

Once you’ve glimpsed the inspired creations in Paper Goods Projects, you’ll never look at your pantry shelves or recycling bins the same way. Here are 60 fun and simple crafts that transform everyday items: paper towel tubes turn into safari animals, coffee filters dyed bright colors bloom into water lilies, doilies make a charming crown, and cereal boxes become the building blocks of a mini city.
Paper Goods Projects has crafts for birthday party favors and decorations, cake toppers, greeting cards, children’s toys, and so much more. Tap your creativity like never before to create fun, beautiful objects out of the simplest materials.

My thoughts: This book is so much fun for adults and kids alike! While not particularly a "kids craft" book, I love that a lot of the crafts are ones that can be done with young people. And, not only are the crafts adorable, but they also show how one can recycle items and turn them into adorable decorations, toys, and party favors.
My particular favorites are the tube letters and solar system, though a lot of these ideas will be fun to implement at parties.;)
I also look forward to using some of the ideas to dress up gifts, since mine are often the dull looking ones (unless my husband is involved. Then, it's just quirkyly wrapped.;) I'm not sure that is a word, but it is a fitting description of what his wrapping is like. lol), so my wrapping skills could use some much needed help, which this book provides.
I received this book from Blogging for Books in exchange for my honest review.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Eraser art

My daughter, cousins, aunt, and I took on a fun project today: decorating small book bags with sparkly fabric paint and the eraser end of a (new) pencil! (You're  welcome, dad, for adding  paint to your new pencils! Thankfully, it comes off fairly easy once the paint dried)
What you need:
*Canvas bag
*New pencil
*Fabric paint
*Shapes cut out of card stock
We went with a Valentine theme, with coral color paint and hearts, but the sky is the limit! You can stick with one color of paint  or use a rainbow of colors. Something that might be fun would be varying shades of the same color.
Between Hobby Lobby and Walmart, it wound up being around $2.50 a bag, though that includes the cost of the paint, which can be used for other projects.
So, we started with a clean surface and cut out some hearts.


Then, we put some paint in a paper plate and went to work!

Each of us had a blast working on different designs! Once one side was done, we set them aside to dry for about an hour, before setting to work on the second side.

The fun thing about this project is that you can switch it up and apply the paint to other things, like t-shirts, sweatshirts, aprons, etc. It would also be a great school or VBS project!
I would love to know what others come up with!
Happy crafting.:)