Here are some quick projects for kids to make. Depending on age of child adult supervision
maybe needed.
4th of
July Sticker Star Twirler
Materials: Plastic coffee can lid, Craft
knife, Thick rubber band, Paper clips, Sticker stars, and Flexible plastic straw
Directions:
Use a craft knife to cut a small X in the center of a plastic
coffee lid.
Push one end of a thick rubber band (like the one shown below)
up through the opening and stretch it around the center of a paper clip to keep
it from pulling back through. Decorate the lid with sticker stars.
From a flexible plastic straw, cut one 4-inch straight length
and one 4 1/2-inch length with the bendable portion near the center. Shape a
second paper clip into a small hook. Then slide it into the straight straw
length and use it to pull the free end of the rubber band through.
Insert one end of the bendable straw length through the
protruding loop of the rubber band for a handle.
Red,
White + Blue Fashion Cuffs
Materials: red, white and blue felt, glue (hot glue gun
optional), scissors, button, and thread
Directions:
Cut a strip of white felt for the base of the cuff. You can
make it as wide or thin as you'd like. Just make sure it's longer than the
wrist to accomodate a button.
Then cut two to three narrow strips of red for stripes, a
small square out of the blue felt and a small square out of the white.
Glue red strips to the cuff base. I've found hot glue works
best, but fabric glue will work too.
Glue the blue square to the center of the cuff. Then, cut a
star out of the small white square of felt.
Glue the white star to the blue circle. Then sew a button onto
one end of the cuff.
Snip the felt to add a button hole and it's ready to wear!
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look forward to hearing from you!
