We don't "do" glitter in our home. Derek has a strong dislike for it. :) Frankly, I'm not fond of the mess it makes after the project is completed either.
We have lots of craft sticks, and I wanted to celebrate our snow with a snow craft. So we made these snowflakes as a variation to glitter snowflakes that I have seen a lot.
Mine were pretty simple. I glued the four craft sticks together and painted them with white acrylic paint when the glue dried. (I think silver would look great!) I wanted M (age 3) to help, so I only used craft glue to attach the buttons, but hot glue may hold better. M had great fun choosing white buttons and placing them on the glue. We used a ribbon so that it could be an ornament.
We made a bunch of these button snowflakes. We kept one for our Christmas tree, and gave the rest away.
We gave one to our neighbors. They are a family of eight, so I wrote each person's name on a "spoke" with the year 2009 in the center.
(Since the children are both sick...the messy variety...posting may continue to be sporadic as I use the evenings after they are in bed to recover from the day.)
We have lots of craft sticks, and I wanted to celebrate our snow with a snow craft. So we made these snowflakes as a variation to glitter snowflakes that I have seen a lot.
Mine were pretty simple. I glued the four craft sticks together and painted them with white acrylic paint when the glue dried. (I think silver would look great!) I wanted M (age 3) to help, so I only used craft glue to attach the buttons, but hot glue may hold better. M had great fun choosing white buttons and placing them on the glue. We used a ribbon so that it could be an ornament.
We made a bunch of these button snowflakes. We kept one for our Christmas tree, and gave the rest away.
We gave one to our neighbors. They are a family of eight, so I wrote each person's name on a "spoke" with the year 2009 in the center.
(Since the children are both sick...the messy variety...posting may continue to be sporadic as I use the evenings after they are in bed to recover from the day.)
4 comments:
I have wanted to make one of these for a long time and I always forget. Tom despises glitter too. we usually do glitter projects outside or use glitter glue. I hope everyone feels better soon.
That is a neat idea!
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We don't do glitter either - even dried glitter projects that Anna brings from school shed mercilessly. I really like how your snowflakes turned out. I hope that the kids feel better soon.
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