Crafts
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Three Color Spaghetti Slime
Materials: Kool-Aid or ood coloring 1 box of Spaghetti Oil-vegetable, coconut, any of your choice Water Divide 1 box of spaghetti in three parts. Put 4 to 5 cu. of water in a pot and add one packet of Kool-Aid or food coloring of your choice and bring…
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Cute Little Girl Barrettes
Double prong barrettes/metal slips, size depending on age of the wearer 3/8" grosgrain ribbon Hot glue gun and glue Flower, gem, button, etc. for decoration First, cover your metal clip/barrette with the ribbon to hide the clip itself. Take the end of…
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Decorative Bows for Barrettes for Your Favorite Little Girl
2 - 8 inch lengths of grosgrain ribbon, either 3/8" or 5/8" wide 2 - 8 inch lengths of grosgrain ribbon, either 3/8" or 5/8" wide hot glue gun and glue sticks decorative button or gem Take one 8 inch length ribbon and hot glue one end on top of the other…
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Beautiful Butterfly Bows
2 - 8 inch lengths of grosgrain ribbon, 5/8 inch wide 12 inches of grosgrain ribbon, 3/8 inch wide, contrasting color 3/8 inch round, wooden dowel rod 2 wooden clothespins with springs tin foil baking pan glue gun and glue sticks The center of the butter…
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Adorable Little Girl or Boy Christmas Ornament
clear ornament, either glass or plastic acrylic paint, flesh color red paint or permanent marker for lip color curly Christmas ribbon for hair, any color googly eyes black permanent marker, thin tip decoration of some sort for nose Pour flesh colored acr…
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Tortoise-Shell Look Bookend Phone Book Art
Phone book Acrylic paints: red, brown, black and yellow Brushes Shellac or varnish Take a medium to large phone book and fold each page to the middle of the phone book without creasing the pages. Take red, black, brown and yellow acrylic paints and paint…
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Fun, Fabulous Fabric Flowers for Headbands and Barrettes
Materials: thin fabric buttons or rhinestones scissors headbands or bobby pins, barrettes pencil or fabric marker cup, glass, quarter, or other circle templates hot glue gun and glue felt Trace the circle template onto fabric that has been ironed. Eight…
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Twine/Hemp Flowers
Materials: twine or hemp corrugated cardboard to make loom toothpicks or stick pins scissors drafting compass or round object like a glass or cup (to trace on the cardboard) pencil needlepoint needles or blunt craft needle with large eye Directions: Tr…
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Cobra Stitch Parachute Cord Bracelets-One Color
Parachute cord Plastic buckle-side release Lighter Pliers Measure around wrist. If you want your bracelet to be 7 inches around, you will need 7 feet of paracute cord. If you want it to be 6 inches around, then cut the length 6 feet, and so on. To loa…
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Silk and Wooden Bead Necklace
Sewing machine silk or rayon fabric-old scarves work great! Thread Scissors Yardstick 1-inch wooden beads Directions: Cut the fabric so the length is 55 inches and the width is 5 inches. If your fabric isn't long enough, you can piece together swatches…
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Braided Barrettes Inspired by the 80's Craze
Materials: 1 yard 1/8" satin ribbon - color X 1 yard 1/8" satin ribbon - color Y 1 double bar barrette (2 - 2 1/2") optional: buttons or pony beads for decorating Directions: 1] Cut 1 piece each of colors X and Y 36" long. 2] Lay color X over color Y an…
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Fabric Wrapped Clothesline Baskets
Begin by cutting your fabric into 3/4 -inch strips. Alternatively, if you have jelly roll strips, cut them in half. These strips will be a little wider. Cut the clothesline end at an angle, glob it with the glue stick. Start wrapping the fabric strips ar…
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Creative Street Art
If you want to add some color to the boring old staircase but at the same time leave that old feeling to it dress it up with a little bit of beautiful flowers.
