Mm, peanuts! Whats better than sitting down and snapping peanut shells to retrieve those delicious peanuts inside? How about if youre having a peanut snack while you have a peanut painting party? Wouldnt that be fun? Adults might know other ways to fill the hours but kids will love the peanut painting fun! To tell you the truth, though, adults will love it too! The next time you buy a bag of peanuts in the shell get the kids together and have loads of creativity and laughter.
You dont need a lot of craft supplies to make the peanut pals. As a matter of fact, you dont need any craft supplies, just a few markers. You can make the peanut characters as simplistic or as detailed as you wish. Use things around the house or go all out and purchase craft supplies to help you make the most unique peanut pals ever.
For most peanut characters youll choose the slimmest end of the shell to create the head. The larger end of the peanut will become the body. All peanut characters should be made before cracking open the nut. After youve created the character you can then decide if youll eat the guys or just display them. There are any number of things that can become the base for the peanuts. A soda bottle lid, spice jar lid, small block of wood or even a flat piece of cardboard can be used to create a stand for one or several nut people. Glue the peanut onto the base before or after youve embellished it - whichever is easiest for you. Display the nuts individually or create a group of characters that stand together. Its really easy to use fine-tip markers to create faces for the people. Simply draw any type of eyes and a mouth. The characters are really cute if you use tiny little wiggly eyes from a craft store. Instead of painting on a mouth you can cut a tiny piece of yarn or felt to serve as the mouth. If you want to make arms for the peanuts cut short pieces of pipe cleaners. Cut short pieces of yarn to make hair or cut long pieces and give the character hair down to his or her feet. Cut one or two pieces of yarn and glue them in place to create a nearly bald peanut person. Make bangs, weird hair colors or other hairstyles from ordinary yarn. You can create other things besides hair with yarn, too. Tie a knot in one tiny strand and glue it on for a bow tie or hair bow. Wrap a piece of yarn around the "neck", glue on a tiny bead, and youve created a cool string tie. Pipe cleaners can be used to create all sorts of embellishments and accessories. Start at one end of a black pipe cleaner and begin rolling it. Keep rolling it until youve made a flat disc. Trim away the rest of the pipe cleaner. Glue the disc onto the head of the nut character. Now twist a half of a black pipe cleaner around a pencil. Slide it off and youve created a spiral. Smash the spiral somewhat so that you can no longer see between the spirals. Glue this tall piece on top of the black disc to finish creating a top hat. Make a colorful disc, glue on a bead or small silk flower, and you have a fabulous hat for a female peanut. Craft stores are full of teeny minis that you could use to embellish the nuts. Youll find small hats, purses, shoes, clothes and more that will help you create the perfect peanut characters. Or, use things from around your house like scraps of cloth to make clothes, bread tie wires to make belts or even tiny doll shoes from the kids toy box. Creating peanut pals is a lot of fun for young children at a birthday party or for parents to do with the kids on a boring night. Make peanut pals that resemble the people in your family or just make miniature monsters out of them. Give them away to people as whimsical gifts or set them on shelves and mantles around your own home. Its a fun and cheap craft thatll keep you laughing!
Monday, December 3, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Styrofoam Discs Wall Art Anyone Can Make
Styrofoam is so much fun to craft with because it comes in so many shapes, is very inexpensive, and can be used to create all sorts of home decor pieces. You dont have to be an artist to create art when you start with Styrofoam. In fact, you dont have to have any talent at all to create Styrofoam wall discs that are great for most any room. Create as many or as few as you want, and when youre finished hanging them, the room will have a whole new look.
Give any wall a 3-d dotted look by decorating the ordinary Styrofoam discs. There are any number of things you can use to decorate them. One of the easiest ways to cover the discs is to just use paper or fabric. Decoupage adhesive, found at most any craft store, makes it easy for you to attach paper or cloth to Styrofoam or other surfaces. The adhesive is not expensive and will allow you to do many projects.
Coat the front of the disc with the adhesive then position the paper or cloth. Trim away excess. Scrapbook paper gives you hundreds of choice for the theme of the Styrofoam discs. Cloth choices can be anything from heavy fabrics to wispy ones. The only requirement is that the material not be so thin as to allow you to see the Styrofoam underneath. Glue a wide piece of ribbon around the edges of the disc. You can later enhance the ribbon with decorative straight pins, fake jewels or other embellishments. Instead of ribbon you can also use a piece of cloth or a strip of paper. Cloth edges should be covered so that the finished disc does not show the raw edges of the material. Narrow ribbon or roping can help you conceal those edges. The finished discs can be decorative or useful. They can be covered and hung to look nice or you can actually use the discs to hold pictures, notes and more. The large dots are great for a teenage girls room. She can use ordinary tacks to hang everything from school schedule to cute guys pictures. Fabric is the best choice if youll be hanging things on the discs because it conceals the puncture holes better than paper. Make all the discs look exactly alike or make ones of solid, stripes and patterns to coordinate a variety of the discs. Line them up in planned patterns or just randomly attach them to the wall. You can group them together to make a 3-d statement or scatter them about the entire room. A piece of double-sided tape on the back of each disc makes them easy to hang in seconds. There are so many different looks you can create with the decorated discs. Cover them in plain cloth then use fabric paints to spell out a word or phrase with the discs. For example, spell your childs name, using one letter on each disc. Make similar ones for holidays or other occasions. Theyre easy to put up and take back down so theyre appropriate for most any special occasion. Instead of placing the discs all over a wall - or all over a room - make different arrangements that show off something you love. For instance, if you love lighthouses, make three or four discs that display different lighthouses then hang the four discs in a row or scattered around the room. Or, make only one special-theme disc and set it on a plate stand to display. Other decorating options include making a monogram from a disc and mounting it on the mantle, creating different ones and attaching them across a cornice, or even making a special disc to affix to the foot board of your bed. There are no limits to the different designs you can create and the different styles in which you can use the discs to decorate. Check your nearest craft store to find the discs along with decorative things to use to embellish them. Youll have a lot of fun with this craft that costs little but grabs attention. Just wait until your visitors see your new dotted room; theyll love it!
Give any wall a 3-d dotted look by decorating the ordinary Styrofoam discs. There are any number of things you can use to decorate them. One of the easiest ways to cover the discs is to just use paper or fabric. Decoupage adhesive, found at most any craft store, makes it easy for you to attach paper or cloth to Styrofoam or other surfaces. The adhesive is not expensive and will allow you to do many projects.
Coat the front of the disc with the adhesive then position the paper or cloth. Trim away excess. Scrapbook paper gives you hundreds of choice for the theme of the Styrofoam discs. Cloth choices can be anything from heavy fabrics to wispy ones. The only requirement is that the material not be so thin as to allow you to see the Styrofoam underneath. Glue a wide piece of ribbon around the edges of the disc. You can later enhance the ribbon with decorative straight pins, fake jewels or other embellishments. Instead of ribbon you can also use a piece of cloth or a strip of paper. Cloth edges should be covered so that the finished disc does not show the raw edges of the material. Narrow ribbon or roping can help you conceal those edges. The finished discs can be decorative or useful. They can be covered and hung to look nice or you can actually use the discs to hold pictures, notes and more. The large dots are great for a teenage girls room. She can use ordinary tacks to hang everything from school schedule to cute guys pictures. Fabric is the best choice if youll be hanging things on the discs because it conceals the puncture holes better than paper. Make all the discs look exactly alike or make ones of solid, stripes and patterns to coordinate a variety of the discs. Line them up in planned patterns or just randomly attach them to the wall. You can group them together to make a 3-d statement or scatter them about the entire room. A piece of double-sided tape on the back of each disc makes them easy to hang in seconds. There are so many different looks you can create with the decorated discs. Cover them in plain cloth then use fabric paints to spell out a word or phrase with the discs. For example, spell your childs name, using one letter on each disc. Make similar ones for holidays or other occasions. Theyre easy to put up and take back down so theyre appropriate for most any special occasion. Instead of placing the discs all over a wall - or all over a room - make different arrangements that show off something you love. For instance, if you love lighthouses, make three or four discs that display different lighthouses then hang the four discs in a row or scattered around the room. Or, make only one special-theme disc and set it on a plate stand to display. Other decorating options include making a monogram from a disc and mounting it on the mantle, creating different ones and attaching them across a cornice, or even making a special disc to affix to the foot board of your bed. There are no limits to the different designs you can create and the different styles in which you can use the discs to decorate. Check your nearest craft store to find the discs along with decorative things to use to embellish them. Youll have a lot of fun with this craft that costs little but grabs attention. Just wait until your visitors see your new dotted room; theyll love it!
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