Just thought I'd share a craft I just finished...it turned out so well...so cute!
Gingerbread Garland...made with Cardboard Gingerbread Men, strung together on hemp roping and a little rafia and ribbon to decorat them. I made a total of 10 ft. (yes, I have been working on them for sometime ). When hung, this garland looks really cute combined with popcorn garland and color paper rings that the smaller children can do easily in one afternoon. Additional accompaniements where candy canes, stars, and heart. The sky is the limit on ideas you may come up with and have in your christmas decoration boxes. For example, beading and tinsel can be added too. Does not have to be strung as a garland. Instead may be used as individual ornaments.
Cardboard Gingerbreadmen
Squirtable tubes of puffy fabric paint and a blow-dryer were the star attractions of this quick and easy craft. Uused the paint like icing to decorate our cardboard cookies, and I found that the containers kept the process surprisingly mess-free.
MATERIALS
Corrugated cardboard
Cookie cutters
X-Acto knife
Puffy fabric paint
Blow-dryer
1. Trace around cookie cutters on cardboard and cut out the "cookies" with an X-Acto knife (a parent's job).
2. Decorate with puffy fabric paint. Let paint dry a few hours, if possible, then blow-dry and watch it puff. (Have guests paint at the start of the party, so they can blow-dry before they leave.)
TIP: When you cut out the "cookie," you don't have to cut all the way through the cardboard at once--go over the cutting line a couple of times.
Gingerbread Garland...made with Cardboard Gingerbread Men, strung together on hemp roping and a little rafia and ribbon to decorat them. I made a total of 10 ft. (yes, I have been working on them for sometime ). When hung, this garland looks really cute combined with popcorn garland and color paper rings that the smaller children can do easily in one afternoon. Additional accompaniements where candy canes, stars, and heart. The sky is the limit on ideas you may come up with and have in your christmas decoration boxes. For example, beading and tinsel can be added too. Does not have to be strung as a garland. Instead may be used as individual ornaments.
Cardboard Gingerbreadmen
Squirtable tubes of puffy fabric paint and a blow-dryer were the star attractions of this quick and easy craft. Uused the paint like icing to decorate our cardboard cookies, and I found that the containers kept the process surprisingly mess-free.
MATERIALS
Corrugated cardboard
Cookie cutters
X-Acto knife
Puffy fabric paint
Blow-dryer
1. Trace around cookie cutters on cardboard and cut out the "cookies" with an X-Acto knife (a parent's job).
2. Decorate with puffy fabric paint. Let paint dry a few hours, if possible, then blow-dry and watch it puff. (Have guests paint at the start of the party, so they can blow-dry before they leave.)
TIP: When you cut out the "cookie," you don't have to cut all the way through the cardboard at once--go over the cutting line a couple of times.
