Last week while trying to keep my kids busy, I decided to take an old phone book and start ripping the phone pages in long strips, my youngest helped. We then put all the paper into a bowl filled with water. After letting the paper sit in water for a day, I used a glue recipe from the book Kids Crazy Art Concoctions by Jill Hauser. We used the instant flour molding paste of flour and water and added the paste to the drained and squeezed paper. My son made a pinch pot - I decided to roll the paper into beads then used a safety pin to make the hole. After letting the beads air dry, some turned out really neat with the phone book names and numbers on the beads. On some, I added words and painted fabric.
17 comments:
Wow. Cool stuff!!
Kristi - super cool project to do with your son. Fun beads! Thanks for sharing this spin on the crusade!
I LOVE THE PINCH POT! So great to see alternative torn paper projects...very creative!
Wow! Cool beads. What an awesome interpretation of Michelle's challenge!
I love your beads, awesomely creative!
What wonderful uses for strips !!!! These turned out so well. The little pot is so cute.
Great job on this Crusade !
It is so neat that you and your son could craft together. Awesome. Love the beads.
That's a fun idea....make torn paper beads! And you were able to share some creative time with your son.
wow, what a neat idea. it is amazing to see everyones take on this crusade.
Now the beads certainly are clever, but it's the little pinch pot that won me over.
Kristi,
of course you can ripped paper for this too !! Great project and really fun to do with kids.
greetings from belgium
Inge
super idea! love those beads!
What a clever idea. Love the beads.
How fun!
Fun idea, love it !
This is really fun and I love the words on the beads - a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Wow ... what an awesome interpretation of this crusade!
I'm new to art journaling, and seeing all the ways 'crusaders' are thinking outside the box is really inspiring. Great work!
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