This looks so ... attractive !!!
Within a months time kids will be at home looking for new things to explore this vacation. Until the beginning of the new academic year they have quiet some leisure time to venture into new activities.
We as mothers look forward to engage them in something constructive. Here's a nice and crafty way to keep them engrossed for quiet some qualitative time.
On exploring an interesting blog we have got something very beautiful and easy craft item.
Foam Basket.
Once we learn this we can make many other things from foam sheets. Let's make a
Beautiful Foam Basket with our little ones.
Foam is an ideal material to gift kids as it can withstand quite a bit of squishing , dropping and tugging without falling apart! We plan to fill our little baskets with candy to gift the kids! Making these flower baskets will be super easy and FUN FUN ! Let's take an experience of this.
Materials Required
Foam - Thick foam is preferable as you need your basket to be sturdy. Cut the foam in Flower shape in contrasting colors to make the leafy base and flower basket.The base flower is slightly smaller than the flower used to make the basket.
Foam strip approximately 1 x 7.5 inch long [ cut from an A4 sheet to foam] to make the
basket handle
Optional - foam to make foam bows
Glue gun-- indispensable when working with foam!
Scissors- to cut foam
1. First we need to cut out the 4 1/4 inch diameter and 3 3/4 inch diameter flower shapes.
2. Simply draw and cut the shape of a flower of your choice
3. How to Make the Foam Baskets-
Cut the larger foam flower in the groove between the petals towards the center but not reaching it as shown in the pictorial below
4.Apply a little bit of glue...[not too much or the excess glue will not only burn you but give unsightly glue marks on your project] on the edge of a petal as shown and overlap an adjacent petal over it and hold for a few seconds!
5.Keep applying glue and sticking adjacent petals
6.And soon you have a flower shaped basket!Your first basket might not look as good as this one but, as you go on doing it you will get better results.
7.The green foam flower shape you are going to use as the base for your basket can be left as such or jazzed up a bit with inks and white/ silver pens if you want.
8.Apply hot glue to the center of your base.
9.And stick on your flower shaped basket.
10.You can use it for candy or other small things or can convert into a basket by adding a handle.
11. For making a handle use a 1 x 7.5 inch strip of green glitter foam and use hot glue to stick it inside your foam flower basket
12.Since foam is such a malleable material this will be one of the easiest handles you make!
13.Nothing can beat a "bow" to make something look cute ! You can use a Life style crafts die to make a glitter foam bow to add to the basket handle or you can cut a shape of horizontal 8 on foam and use it as a bow.
14.We can decorate basket by using pearls on the bow etc. For decoration sky is the limit.
15.Added Tattered lace rose die cuts to glamorize the inside of the baskets.
16.Our baskets are in a riot of colors...Let's hope the children will like them!
So let your little ones have a lot of fun making the basket. We can us this as a return gift or to keep other knick knacks.
All images and procedure courtesy : http://cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.in
