If you and your family are still thinking about Thanksgiving? It 'just around the corner. (Only three weeks away.) Here's a great idea for Thanksgiving craft that involved the whole family gets. And, as usual, there are many things you can do with this, just using your imagination. . . and some simple tips. This idea, as is claimed on Thanksgiving, small changes to be done for a variety of holiday only.
Here's what youneed:
- Colored paper (scrapbook or construction), craft foam, or felt (all in autumn colors)
- Poster board, cardboard, or foam core board.
- Scissors and/or exacto knife
- Glue
- Embellishments - These can be buttons, berries, pom poms, pipe cleaners, ribbons . . . You name it, you can use it.
Here's what you'll want to do:
1. Cut out the shape for your wreath. You can make your wreath a circle, oval, or even a square. The choice is yours. You'll do this with the Poster board, card board, or foam core.
The three materials suggested were chosen for your so that you would have a material choice that would work with the type of project you were wanting to do. If you are wanting a quick fun project, that you will not be keeping from year to year, then use card board or poster board. Both of these are disposable and either inexpensive or free. If you would like something a little nicer, use the foam core board. This can be found with poster board and matte board material at your local craft store. If you can not find it, a sales associate should be able to help you. This is basically two pieces of poster board sandwiched around a 1/8 inch layer of foam. It is very durable and can be cut with an exacto knife.
2. Next, trace the hands of each member of your family. And cut out the shapes. If you are doing a large wreath with a small family, then you will need more than one pair of each person's hands. Cut multiples if needed. For this, you will use either colored paper, craft foam, or felt in autumn colors.
If you are wanting to do this fast, easy, and with out much expense, you will use construction paper. If you want a nicer quality, with out huge cost, and may not keep this from year to year, then you may want scrap book paper. If you will keep this for several years, then you will likely want to use craft foam or felt.
If you do not want to pay for craft foam or felt, but want a nicer finished product, then you can use a technique called Paper Toile. To do this, take your hand prints made from scrapbook paper and place it face down on your mouse pad computer mouse. Then take a rounded surface like the tip of a pen and trace elements to cover the palm print. They will do a 1 / 8 to 1 / 16 of an inch form the edge of the paper. Start gently and practice in a scrap page until you find the right pressure. If you are a patient, you can create a rounded edgesof your handprints. This will give them a little extra depth and add a nice finished detail to your wreath.
3. Once all of your handprints are cut out, lay them out on your wreath so that your wreath shape is covered. Now you can glue this down.
4. It's time to embellish! It's also time to use your imagination. You can change the whole mood of your wreath based on how you embellish it. Buttons placed in small clusters of 1 to 3 around your wreath would have cute, hand-crafted feel. If you used pipe cleaners (maybe swirled into a circle) and pom poms you are creating a much more lighthearted and whimsical feel. Or you could use berries and bows. This would create a sophisticated affect. The choice is yours.
And, as always, you are only limited by what you can imagine. Lay out your options, if you don't like the look, don't glue them down, change them to something else. Most important of all, have fun.
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