crafts for children – Our Military Life Blog https://blog.mymilitarysavings.com Serve*Save*Enjoy Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:58:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 Santa Cork Ornaments https://blog.mymilitarysavings.com/santa-cork-ornaments/ Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:07:44 +0000 http://blog.mymilitarysavings.com/?p=21732 School break is almost here, and we are going to need something to keep those little hands busy! This super cute Santa Cork Ornament is a lot of fun to make, and a great family afternoon activity! Perfect for little gifts for friends and family alike! Stay out of the cold and ick, and enjoy some crafty time! This craft is from Red Ted Art!

 

Materials (makes one Santa):

  • One cork
  • red & pink acrylic paint
  • red felt (or card)
  • cotton wool (or white felt)
  • PVA glue (a hot glue gun is even better; however, you can get away with PVA glue)
  • ribbon for hanging
  • black and red pens for details

Directions:

1)      Paint you corks 1/3 pink and 2/3s red and let them dry fully

2)      Using a glass (medium to large – e.g. 6-8cm in diameter), draw a circle on your felt. Cut this into thirds. Each third will be enough for one hat.

3)      (If you want to use these as ornaments, then..) Take a piece of ribbon, tie a knot in the end. I double knotted it, so that you can glue it into the hat more easily.

4)      Place your ribbon inside the pointy bit of your  1/3 of a circle. Then align the straight edge (trapping the ribbon inside) and glue down – this is when a hot glue gun is much easier. It does work with PVA or fabric glue, but it gets a bit messy as the felt absorbs a lot of glue. You can always use some red card instead, which you may find easier to stick.

5)      Once dried, glue the hat to your cork. If it isn’t a perfect fit, don’t worry, the cotton wool will cover it up.

6)      Unroll your cotton wool and tear off a strip for the hat brim, cut a triangle for the beard and make a little ball for the top of the hat.

7)      Glue the hat brim, the bobble ball and beard in place. You can shape it a little once stuck on by patting it down or trimming it with nail scissors.

8)      Carefully had eyes and nose (it is easy to color the cotton wool by accident) and…

Finished!

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]]> Toilet Paper Frankenstein Rolls https://blog.mymilitarysavings.com/toilet-paper-frankenstein-rolls/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:51:02 +0000 http://blog.mymilitarysavings.com/?p=19982 I was asked to help out with my daughter’s preschool class in organizing a Halloween party for all of the little munchkins. Besides super cute snacks and decorations, I had to come up with an activity to share with everyone… and oh my, the possibilities are really endless when it comes to creativity with the basic supplies. I mean, let’s talk toilet paper rolls for a second. Do you know all of the crafts that you can make with those things??? Animals, binoculars, stamps, wreaths, party favor boxes, napkin rings, and so on, and so on!!! Type in TP rolls in a search engine and then cue the “wooooow”s because, yeah. Those little rolls that get no credit and go straight to the trash (or hopefully recycling bin) have been turned into some amazing things by some fantastically imaginative people.

These Frankenstein Toilet Paper Rolls are not the craft that I ended up deciding on for the Halloween party, buuuut, it was something that I did come across during my search and my favorite little preschooler asked me to make them with her anyway. How could I say no to that precious face!?

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Yep, there she is posing with all the materials you’ll need, minus the scissors. So make sure you grab:

  • A toilet paper roll, obviously 🙂
  • Black and green marker
  • 2 golf tees
  • 2 googly eyes
  • Scissors and glue

I asked my sweetie pie what she thought about this craft after she completed it and she said it was the “prettiest Frankenstein she had ever seen.” I don’t think *pretty* when I think Frankie, but I will agree it’s the best I’ve ever seen! She was a rock star at this!!

Step 1) I marked a black line 1/3 of the way down the roll to show where the hair should stop. She colored everything in above it, black. Then she colored the rest of the roll green! (Note- we did end up switching to a very light green colored marker because the regular green ended up being a bit dark and there wasn’t a drastic enough contrast between it and the black.)

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Step 2) Pop the golf tees into both sides of the paper roll right under the hair line and then draw a line for a mouth and add some little lines for stitches.

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Step 3) Using scissors, make little cuts at the top of the roll to give the hair some dimension.

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Step 4) Glue on your googly eyes and Frankenstein is ready for display!!

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This guy looked great right next to our pine cone bats!! I’m all about decorating on a budget! 🙂 Isn’t it terror-ific? HA!

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