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Different Ways to Make a Pinata
Pinatas are hollow paper mache shapes, decorated with bright-colored crepe or tissue paper, and filled with treats. Typically, pinatas are hung from a tree branch. Blindfolded children use a stick and try to break open the pinata. Eventually, the paper mache breaks, spilling treats for...
Free Instructions on How to Make Woven Bracelets
Woven bracelets are an easy way to express your creativity and wear your favorite colors. Some woven bracelets are personalized with alphabet letters or adding a symbolic charm. Although this accessory can be worn as a wrist or ankle bracelet, you can alter the length and incorporate extended tails.
Latch Hook Directions
If you know how to latch hook, you can create rugs in a variety of patterns and styles. Purchase a latch-hook kit and follow the instructions to create a pre-printed rug design or improvise one of your own. Latch hooking takes short pieces of yarn and an open-weave canvas to create colorful rugs. Th
How to Make Simple, Flexible Sealing Wax
Sealing wax was used to seal correspondence and important documents in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--before envelopes were invented. While sealing wax is no longer a necessity, some people enjoy adding a wax seal to letters or invitations. You can purchase ready-to-use sealing wax or mix
How to Assemble a Whoopee Cushion
Whoopee cushions have been around for nearly 2,000 years. The teenage Roman Emperor Elagabulus amused his dinner companions with a form of the juvenile humor cushion that simulates flatulence, as have numerous party-givers since. The practical joke device is composed of a rubber bladder made of two
Children Activities on God Creating Earth in Six Days
The story of creation is easily shared with students in a single class or over the course of a few days. Telling the story of the six days of creation is wonderfully reinforced with creative projects adapted for the students' ages.
How to Make Teddy Bear Eyes Out of Paper
Whether you are repairing a teddy bear or making one from scratch, there are a wide range of choices -- glass, plastic or even paper -- when it comes to adding the eyes. Making the bear's eyes from paper allows you to determine their size, shape and color, and to give them precisely the look you wan
How do I Make a Pom Pom for a Knit Hat?
A pom pom is a ball of tufted yarn that can be used to embellish a knitted hat. This quick and easy project can be made in any color or size and attached to your hat once you've finished knitting. Suitable for children and adults, a pom pom is an ideal way to use up any odd or leftover balls of yarn
Homemade Swirl Foam Stamps
You can make foam stamps easily at home from inexpensive materials, and swirls are simple and effective designs that can be created even with limited artistic skill. The basic materials you need are a piece of foam, a piece of wood and a craft knife. Once the foam stamp is made it can be used to p
How to Make a Stuffed Animal Mouse
Create a fun toy for your kitty with this cute stuffed animal mouse made from gray felt. It takes less than an hour to make one stuffed animal mouse, so make several to fill a toy basket or drop them around the house as little surprises for Kitty. The bell on the tail will give your cat interactive
How to Build Sweeping Patterns
Sweep picking is an advanced guitar technique that relies on fast-moving individual notes to create a sparkling sound. Although difficult to master, sweep picking relies on a basic pattern that, once learned, can be transferred to any chord to create highly intricate sweeping patterns.
How to Make Rubber Molds
Mold-making, or the imprinting of a model into a mold form from which copies of the model can be made, is not just a process for the professionals. Rubber molds are fairly simple to make, with a little practice. With a rubber mold, you can make copies of existing objects and your own sculptures for
Snowflake Crafts for Kids
Entertain children with creative and crafty snowflake projects.snowflake image by Nevena Kozekova from Fotolia.comWhether you need Christmas craft ideas or an assortment of seasonal projects for a holiday party or long winter vacation, sparkling snowflakes are a wonderful icon of the...
How to Make Bows With the CF45 Fringe Maker
The Fringemaker is a tool used for making fringe on different objects, such as clothing, decorations and other items. You can make any size fringe by changing the width of the two bars on the Fringemaker. You can also use the Fringemaker to make different size bows. You can make traditional bows by
How to Make Bows With the E-Z Bow Maker
When making bows, an extra hand would be helpful. An E-Z Bow Maker provides that hand. Make large or small bows with the E-Z Bow Maker for a variety of decorative needs. The bow maker is a board with two vertical dowels standing in the center. The dowels are the extra hand that will hold the form of
Do Latch Hooks Come in Different Sizes?
Latch hook is a popular craft using tiny pieces of yarn that are attached to a canvas grid. Completed latch hook projects can be turned into wall art, pillows, rugs or other decorative accessories. Latch hook projects come in various canvas dimensions with a wide variety of latch hook sizes that can
What Makes Bleach Change the Color of Fabrics?
What Causes Color?Chromophores are the part of a molecule responsible for the colors we see. When a molecule is exposed to light, the chromophore causes the molecule to change shape. In many pigments, including fabric dyes, the chromophores contain alternating single and double bonds....
How to Attach Baubles to a Tubular Peyote
When working a tubular peyote stitch, you may decide to add charms, gems, stones or other items to the project. You have the options of weaving your peyote stitch around the bauble or letting the bauble dangle on the outside of the peyote tube. Just think ahead and plan the dangling and woven-in bau
How to Add a Pocket to a Knitted Wrap
Sew a pocket on a knitted wrap to add beauty and warmth for the hands or to hold small items. Decide what size pocket you want and the color yarn you want to use. Also, use a type of yarn that will stand up under laundering. Included are instructions for knitting a basic pocket.
Video: How to Make Tassels for a Shower Curtain
Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Linda Hutchinson of L. Hutchinson Designs. Today, I'm going to show you how to make a tassel for a shower curtain, like the one right here. So, I have some scissors, some embroidery floss and two pieces of cardboard that I have started making a tassel on. I cut...