You can learn how to make custom headbands inexpensively. You can buy plain headbands and elastics at many local dollar stores very inexpensively. Most of the time you can get several headbands for a dollar. These headbands can sometimes be plain or boring, but you can make them custom easily and inexpensively with these instructions.
Floral
To make a custom floral headband you will need a hot glue gun, hot glue sticks, and fake flowers. If you do not have fake flowers you can use felt and scissors. You will also need a headband that matches the flowers you have chosen.
To create this custom headband simply pull the fake flower bud off of the stem. Press some hot glue into the hole in the bottom of the flower bud. This will secure the petals together. Then add glue to the bottom of the flower bud and the headband. You may have to cut the bottom of the flower bud to make it flat enough to stick to the headband.
Buttons
You can add buttons to a headband very easily to create a custom headband. For this craft you will need buttons, a hot glue gun, hot glue, and sandpaper. Start by lightly sanding the side of the button that will be glued to the headband. You can sand the headband as well if you like. This will add extra security.
Brush or wipe the powder leftover from the sanding paper off of both items before gluing. Then apply the glue to the button and press it gently on the headband. Make any pattern you like with the buttons. When the glue is cool you can wear this custom headband.
Ribbon
You can make a headband custom using ribbon. Ribbon is a great way to match a headband to an outfit for special occasions. For this custom craft you will need ribbon, hot glue sticks, a hot glue gun, scissors, and a headband.
Continue wrapping the ribbon around the headband. Add glue intermittently while wrapping. When you reach the other side add glue to the end of the ribbon and wrap it around the headband making sure to tuck the edge underneath itself. These custom headbands are fun and inexpensive ways to personalize your accessories. These crafts are fun for kids and adults alike; so try them today!
Pine cones have a way of adding a festive look and charm at holiday time. It’s fun to collect them, too, on brisk walks through the woods or in the park.
The best part is that they cost nothing and will last all through the holiday season with no care whatsoever. Here are simple and easy ways to decorate with pine cones.
Welcome Basket
Fill a wicker basket with pine cones and decorate with bits of greenery and a bright, red bow. Place on a dining room table as a centerpiece, on a mantel between two candles, or hang in an entryway door to set a holiday mood.
Fireplace Basket
A huge basket filled with pine cones looks wonderful next to a basket of wood at the side of a fireplace. If your cone collecting doesn’t result in enough cones to fill a big basket, stuff the bottom with crumpled newspaper and fill only the top with cones. Toss one or two in the fireplace each time you light a fire for a natural, woodsy pine scent.
Simple Wreath
This elegant wreath only uses a few of your pine cones and is an easy one for the kids to make with a little help from you. Cut corrugated cardboard in a thin doughnut shape of the diameter you want. Apply a good amount of craft glue to the cardboard shape and glue on your pine cones, placing the cones on their sides rather than bottoms. When dry, attach a picture hook to the back of the form and hang on a door or wall.
Heart Wreath
Follow the procedure for the round wreath but cut the form in the shape of a heart to make a charming, heartwarming decoration for a door or wall.
Place Card Holders
Here’s a very eco-friendly idea that takes no time at all. Paint the cones with a mixture of sugar and water to act as glue and pour sugar sprinkles over the cones. Let dry and add a label with guest’s name. Use eggcups, teacups, espresso cups, or tiny bowls to hold pine cones as place cards. When you are done using the cones, you can toss those outside for the birds to enjoy.
If it is winter time and your child has been asked to make some winter projects and therefore there are many wonderful possibilities for basic winter art projects and crafts such as cutting out snowflakes or drawing a Santa Claus but in addition there are some other fun things and activities to be done.
You can pose the idea of interesting arts and crafts to your children and you shall really be surprised at the creative ideas of your children.
Some fun ideas for winter crafts whereby you can use organized supplies such as:
1. Cotton is very useful in making some great winter art projects and if these cotton balls are a bit colder they can even look like mini snowballs. Your child can also draw wonderful winter scenery and then rip them, fluff them and glue them at the places where snow has to be shown.
2. Winter is always incomplete without marshmallows. Marshmallows is added treats in hot chocolate but can also be used for winter crafts. Your kids can take three big marshmallows and then stack them on top of each other so as to make a mini and tasty snowman. Toothpicks can also be used to hold the marshmallows together and also as the arms. Mini marshmallows can be a great fun when snowballs are attached to winter collages.
3. Plaster of Paris is also used in many great ways and not just for winter crafts and one of such ways is to use it to make “footprints in the snow.” For this, you can fill a box lid with negligible item such as Plaster of Paris. When it settles and dries you can make different footprints in the snow or could be used as the side of fist to look like a baby’s footprints.
4. Birds that stay in place all through winter needs food and during winter children can make a pine cone bird feeder. So you need to cover a pine cone in peanut butter and dip it in the bird seed and then tie a bit of string to one of these pine cones and hung it up on the tree outside.
5. You can also use glitter to add so that any basic winter art project looks even more fancy and beautiful.
My kids love doing holiday crafts, and I’m sure yours will too! It has always been challenging to find age-appropriate crafts that all of the children will enjoy making.
My children each have a few years between them, so we have amassed quite a collection of crafts and craft ideas. Here are a few MORE suggestions you can use.
Consider it an early Christmas gift from me to you!
Bead garlands are one of my all-time favorite crafts. They are fun to make, extremely colorful, and great for children of all ages. You will need some string or plastic cord, a whole lot of beads, some scissors, and some glue.
Cut the string or cord to the desired length, and thread it through the first bead. Tie a knot around that bead, and add some glue to keep it secure. Now add the rest of your beads. When you reach the end, tie the string off on the last bead and add some more glue. Now that was fun, wasn’t it?
Pine cone ornaments have also become classics in our Christmas craft repertoire. They are appropriate for children of any age, and keep very well in storage. You will need to spend some time collecting the pine cones.
We collect them when we are out walking the dog. We simply paint them with silver or gold paint, and cover them with glitter. Let them dry somewhere safe, and tie them to your tree with a piece of ribbon. Are you getting in the holiday spirit, yet?
Bell ornaments are also a lot of fun to make, and they will last for years to come. We feel that small terra cotta pots are the best to use. Have the children paint the pot green, and allow it to dry. Once the pot is completely dry, attach fake jewels or beads to it with glitter glue.
Then thread a small bell with some ribbon, and pull the ribbon up through the hole in the pot. Tie a knot in the ribbon so the bell stays secure, and add any other final touches you might like. I am sure your kids will love these crafts as much as mine do! Have a wonderful holiday, all!
Kids love to do craft projects, there is no doubt about it. But I think children, especially younger children like to have their projects less structured. I totally think this is true because they can be more creative and have more fun that way.
Don’t get me wrong, I come up with craft ideas for my daughter and we have a lot of fun with them, but she seems to have more fun creating her own craft ideas.
A few years back I went to our local good will store and bought a ton of craft supplies for very little money. I bought beads, pipe cleaners, glitter, stickers, feathers, yarn, lace, buttons, and just a ton of crafty type stuff. I put it all in a big box with some glue and glue sticks and thus my daughters crafting box came into existence.
We have since added stickers, markers, cotton balls, sequins, and other stuff we find.
I bought a big tablet of thick paper and thus her “scrapbook” came into existence. She loves to get it out and create different pages of ideas and creations. She cuts pictures out of magazines and adds them to it as well.
Sometimes she just makes her own craft projects out of the materials instead of doing her “scrapbooking” and she has a great time. The only drawback to her scrapbooking is sometimes she uses a lot of glue and we have to wait for it to dry before she can turn the page and move on to her next crafting creation.
So don’t always think structured when it comes to craft ideas for younger children. You and they will probably have a lot more fun if you let their imagination rule the project.
After all it is their creation so there is no wrong or right to it. They are less likely to become frustrated because they can’t make their creations look just like they are suppose to as well.
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