Information For The Arts & Crafts........

It was great to see so much interest from the children when we went around all the schools on Monday. As promised, here we have some links to sites that will give you some ideas for creating your entries for the Arts and Crafts section of Putaruru on Show at the Putaruru A&P Show.

CARD MAKING and SCRAPBOOKING

There is a lot of great sites for card making and scrapbooking on the internet, click here to see some examples of scrapbooking by kids. Here are some great examples done by kids here in New Zealand.

There are fantastic cards to see on this BLOG - we love looking at this site!

Don't forget that clip art can be a great source for images for your cards - and dafont has some amazing free fonts to download......Not only do they do fonts, but they have swirls & images (called dingbats) - check out the 001 Starship Gamma font HERE..how cool is that?

DECORATED CUPCAKES

Click here to see some amazing pictures of decorated cupcakes.
For those that have the cooking channel on Sky, there is an amazing programme called 'Ace of Cakes' and this is their website here...This is the website that we loved when doing Think Pink in town.... click HERE then click on each of the circles for a close up...! Trade me also has a great range of decorations for cupcakes too.......

BEADED NECKLACE / BRACELET

The Warehouse has a fantastic range of cheap jewellry findings such as wire, closures and lots of cost effective beads.....

Don't forget that you can make your own beads from paper or clay.
You could also try using bread dough clay.

STITCHED ITEM

Sewing Projects for Young Children.
There are many suitable sewing projects for children of all ages. Young children will enjoy simple projects, working with large, round-ended needles and felt or burlap. Simple shapes can be cut out for the youngsters to stitch around. Easy shapes include flowers, hearts, circles and stars. Looking through free clipart shapes can be a useful way to find patterns that can be printed and copied onto felt.
A more advanced project would be to stitch the two shapes together and stuffed. If the shape was a teddy or an animal such as a dog, then this could make a cute toy.

Sewing Projects for Older Children
For older children then projects could include making soft toys. These can be great fun and the children can chose to make their toy cute and cuddly or horrible and scary. Giving a child a couple of old socks, some scrap fabric and some stuffing could result in some interesting results. Glove puppets are also fun to make.
Other ideas include purses, boot-bags, pillow cases and pencil cases.

So hopefully this gives you all ideas and inspiration. Don't forget that Paper Zone, Coin Save and Toy World in Putaruru have a vast selection of craft supplies available. How great it is to support local!!!