So to get into the summer spirit, this morning Mae and I crafted! We started doing practice school work since she got out of school in the mornings... but who feels like work on Mondays?? So bead making it is. (:
Here's what you need to make your own:
- scissors —optional (I was hoping we could do some cutting practice but Mae doesn't quite have enough control yet).
- straws
- Elmer's
- old magazine
Look for nice bright colorful pages in your magazine.
1:: You take the page
and rip it or cut it— you want one side to end up wider and go to
skinny.
The smaller the strip the smaller the bead.
2 :: I added a little bit of water to our glue so it would be easier to paint with.
3 :: Figure out which side is more colorful side and add glue to the other side.
4 :: Then wrap it around your straw, starting at the wider side. (Mae needed a little bit of help wrapping it tightly but she loved this.) Just look at all of our beads!!
5 :: Now they have to dry completely... we were impatient and used the hairdryer to help speed things up.
6 :: Some of the beads slide right off... but the ones that don't you can just cut them and leave the straw in the middle.
Now we were set to make the necklace.
7 :: Tie a knot on the end.
8 :: String them on!! And of course sing while you work. (:
Any ENJOY! Don't you want to make one now??
Mae sure loves hers; she is very proud she made it.
