Quick Crafts for Children
Children love to give gifts to friends and family and they also love to craft. Combine the two and not only will your kids have a blast that will also impress the recipients of their beautiful handmade gifts. Many projects are very easy to make and require only a few things from a craft store. And after they've done a few projects, they usually enough residue to make a couple without spending additional money.One cute craft that almost all children can do does not even require special items from a craft store. After eating a peach off the pit and clean well. After the pit is dry, let your child paint it black. Let it dry then dab white on the sides and back with a cotton swab. Glue the top of an orange crayon to one end of the pit to act as a bill and they have made a duck. Glue the peach pit into a small piece of wood, a mirror or a painted bottle. Put a dot of color on each side and slightly higher than the bill for the eyes. Make a similar craft using walnut halves. Paint them red with black dots on a lady bug, white for a rabbit or gray for a mouse. Turn the front cover half of the empty part is the bottom. Make whiskers for bunny or mouse by cutting the piece of wire and glue them in place at one end of the shell. Cut the antenna for the ladybug. Cut ears from felt - gray on the outside and pink felt on the inside of the mice, white on the outside and pink on the inside of the rabbit. Glue them to the head part of the critter. Just because the rabbit cut a small rectangle of white felt and use a black marker to make a line down the middle. Glue the mouth region of rabbit teeth. Use a string for a mouse tail or piece of cotton ball for bunny's tail. Glue a peanut on a piece of wood or other base. Use twine or wire to make the hair and glue it on top. Or use a piece of felt to make a hat and eliminate hair. Paint on eyes and a mouth or buy stupid eyes craft for peanut person. Use pipe cleaners to form the holding arms and legs. Make a whole family of them by placing them in different ways, resulting in a bushy eyebrows made of black pipe cleaner, and give another glass formed from pipe cleaners. Make a mouse magnet by buying an egg-shaped styrene ball and cut in half, lengthwise. Glue a magnet on the flat side of the egg half. Cut a small nose from felt and draw eyes on with black magic marker. Cut an ear from felt and attach. Use a small piece of pipe cleaner for a tail and a bit of wire or broken toothpick to whiskers.Snail shells and similar tanks with a circular opening to make a perfect gift vase for grandmother. The children can glue the shell in a mirror or even a piece of poster board then "plant" flowers in them by gluing them into the hole. Or give Grandpa a gift he'll love by painting a stone and decorate it just for him. Make a scene with water and a boat or just write "Happy Birthday". Select large smooth rocks for this project and ensure that they are clean and dry before starting.Kids can make beautiful July paperweights to mother, teacher and even my father with the help of a baby food jar filled with water. Paint the inside of the lid white glue on the pine trees and a miniature horse. Or maybe a small plastic train set instead. Or skip the Christmas scene and turn it into an ocean scene. After the ornaments are in place and dried well with waterproof adhesives turn it over and screw the lid tightly. A little glue around the edge on the inside cover will keep the lid on the jar. Tie a ribbon around the lid edge, or even wrap it with a pine branch. Use glitter or fake snow in the water for a more impressive effect. Another baby food jar craft then fill it half full of water and then drop in a rubber or plastic objects. A fish, a cartoon character or a flower is large. Fill in the rest of the jar as full as possible with baby oil to help the object to float. Drop some food coloring if desired to make the water blue or other color. Glue on the lid and decorate the lid edge with shells, ribbons or other embellishment.Make a bracelet holder by covering an empty paper towel tubes with cloth. Poke a hole in the middle of the page where the ends of fabric meet. Glue the write end of a pencil into the hole. The pen should be the type that was made without an eraser and is flat on one end. Paint pen, if desired, before gluing, or buy pens in other colors than the standard yellow. Glue the flat end of the pen to a small piece of wood or even a painted jar lids. Mom or grandma will be very impressed with this gift. As you get more than your everyday throw little things like caps, felt pieces, greeting cards, pieces of lace, cardboard boxes and other items in a plastic bin and start a craft box. Pick up small items like markers, beads, elastic and other concepts that you visit the store. Before long your children will have enough stuff to do all kinds of gifts for many years to come.
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