This year, each of my kids made presents for their three siblings. They had SO much fun doing this! It was extra work for me, but it was also really fun to spend the time with them individually while they worked on their gifts. I got all the ideas from Design Mom; her kids have made LOTS of fun crafts for each other and I think we'll do this again next year.
MOLLY made decopaged composition notebooks. She selected different scrapbook paper to cut into squares and cover the front of a plain, cheap composition notebook, and used stencils to include the recipient's name. We painted Mod Podge all over the top of the paper; they turned out cute.
LUCY made customized 12" cork boards. I hot glued heavy cardstock onto the back of each one so that the tacks won't go all the way through. Lucy chose scrapbook paper for the borders and then she used stencils to decorate each one with Sharpies. We made sure to include some push pins and the kids have already been leaving each other little notes at bedtime; so sweet.
ZOE glued glitter onto cardboard letters for each of her siblings' first initials. This was the easiest and fastest of all the projects, but the glitter is getting all over the place. I think they probably need a spray of clearcoat or something to help minimize the glitter loss. But the kids love them.
Noah's project took the longest, making hair clips for his sisters. As soon as I told him there was FIRE involved, he was excited! We cut out circles from synthetic silk-like fabric, and Noah did most of the fire-work: melting the edges over a candle. Then we layered them, some with tulle in between, stitched them together so they'd stay and hot glued rhinestones in the center and then the whole thing onto a hair clip. I did most of the hot gluing and stitching while Noah did a lot of the cutting and almost all the melting. We made four different colors (I couldn't find one of the lavender ones for this picture) and enough that the girls each received one of each color.
All the kids were so cute opening their homemade sibling gifts; they ooh'ed and aah'ed and were very complimentary of each others' crafting skills. It was really fun to watch!
LUCY made customized 12" cork boards. I hot glued heavy cardstock onto the back of each one so that the tacks won't go all the way through. Lucy chose scrapbook paper for the borders and then she used stencils to decorate each one with Sharpies. We made sure to include some push pins and the kids have already been leaving each other little notes at bedtime; so sweet.
ZOE glued glitter onto cardboard letters for each of her siblings' first initials. This was the easiest and fastest of all the projects, but the glitter is getting all over the place. I think they probably need a spray of clearcoat or something to help minimize the glitter loss. But the kids love them.
Noah's project took the longest, making hair clips for his sisters. As soon as I told him there was FIRE involved, he was excited! We cut out circles from synthetic silk-like fabric, and Noah did most of the fire-work: melting the edges over a candle. Then we layered them, some with tulle in between, stitched them together so they'd stay and hot glued rhinestones in the center and then the whole thing onto a hair clip. I did most of the hot gluing and stitching while Noah did a lot of the cutting and almost all the melting. We made four different colors (I couldn't find one of the lavender ones for this picture) and enough that the girls each received one of each color.
All the kids were so cute opening their homemade sibling gifts; they ooh'ed and aah'ed and were very complimentary of each others' crafting skills. It was really fun to watch!The other homemade thing we did, I forgot to take a picture of! For the kids' AZ cousins name exchange, we made homemade snowglobes for each of the cousins that my kids gave too. I think they liked them, and they were a fun project to work on together. We followed these instructions. For three of them we used pint-sized glass canning jars, and for the 4th one we used a plastic, cleaned out mayonnaise jar because it was for a 2-yr-old and I didn't want him to break it. The only problem with them was that the glitter I'd bought for the "snow" was too fine; it didn't wasn't heavy enough to fall like snow and ended up sticking too much to the laminated photos inside. But, I think they were well-received.
2 comments:
I love the home-made gift idea and your kids each made something for everyone. What fun projects!
What a great idea for them to do homemade gifts for each other! Also, if you decide to do more of those flower hair clips, I have found that using a fire starter wand (like a giant lighter) is so much easier than a candler.
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