Supplies: 4 silk shantung squares that are 2.5″ x 2.5″, 11/0 sized glass beads, glass beads size 20lneedle, thread the same color as the fabric, 2 head pins, not shown: hot glue gun, Crafter’s Picks glue or similar to help adhere beads to fabric Take the first square and place it in front of…
During the spring 2018 term, I was looking for a jewelry activity to do with my Craft Market students. For the winter term, we had used the basic French braid to make friendship bracelets. But now I wanted a fairly easy technique to make a different bracelet. I came across a DIY on Pinterest one…
So for our DIY Friday, I went back to my favorite craft of the summer: Paper Doll Dresses. Plus this week was the first week of afterschool classes for the Fall 2018-2019 school year and our first project in the Craft Market class was Paper Doll Dresses’. Check out the following links for our other…
So for this week’s DIY, I thought I would bring it back to paper dolls again. I thought we would make a regular pleated dress this time. As always, it is fairly easy to do but is absolutely adorable. I am hoping to come up with a coupla different dress styles that my students will…
For our Friday DIY, I decided to look into the future for inspiration. In the coming fall term, students in our Craft Market class will be making Paper Dolls including a coupla outfits. As we normally do, we will provide the kiddos with their DIY kit which will include the doll (they will pick from…
For this week’s DIY, I decided to highlight another of our adorable Paper Lantern Creatures: Hefalump. You can find all our PLC DIY kits on our Etsy store. Now Hefalump is one of my fav Paper Lantern Creatures, although truth be told, I love them all. But Hefalump is a little crazy, wacky and is…
For our Friday DIY for this week, I looked to our workshops at Grand Bazaar Market as inspiration. One of the crafts we will be working on is a paper craft to make an umbrella and ballerina. I first came across this paper craft a coupla years ago. I thought it was adorable beyond belief…
For this week’s tutorial, I picked something I did for a friends daughter’s birthday party activity. The theme was bunnies and we needed something that was gender neutral. After sending a couple options, mom picked this one. I was happy that she picked this one cos it is a fairly easy activity to do even…
For our Friday DIY, I decided to highlight kanzashi flowers again. This time, we turned the flower up side down to showcase the beauty of the bottom of the classic flower. Part of the reason why I like using this particular technique to make these flowers, is that if you pay attention as you are…
Welcome to our first DIY Friday. Every week moving forward, we will highlight a fun DIY. For our inaugural week, we are showing you one of our most loved crafts: Paper Lantern Creatures: Piggie. This is an activity I designed for my after school students. Beyond the adorable nature of the creatures, they can also…
