A Frugal Birthday and Family Craft
The above picture was taken from a birthday several years back- The humpty-dumpty tin, the costume jewelry, and the dress all came from a thrift shop. Humpty Dumpty was this child's favorite nursery rhyme. I shop at thrift shops and yard sales several times a year looking for birthday and Christmas items and I stash them away until needed.
For little girls, the gaudier the costume jewelry, the better. For older girls you could take a few necklaces apart and give them the beads and findings for making their own jewelry.
One of our favorite thrift shop presents for little boys is men's work clothes, uniforms, hats, and accessories- a tool belt, a tie, a briefcase, a hard hat, and a military shirt are wonderful additions to the dress up box.
Here's the family craft: The flower in this little girl's hair is made from toilet paper. This is a fun decoration for a special occasion, and it's also a fun craft that, for once, really is made with items every household will have on hand.;-)
You can also make these with paper napkins if you are at a restaurant with fractious children who need to be entertained, The tutorial here has a video that shows how to make fancier ones with brightly colored tissue paper from the craft store, and this step by step tutorial uses photographs to show more ideas for the tissue paper flowers.
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3 Responses to “A Frugal Birthday and Family Craft”
August 21st, 2009 at 11:12 am
How did you get the flower to stay in her hair?
August 21st, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Hi,
Thank you so much for linking to my site, FineCraftGuild.com for the free step by step tutorial for paper flowers.
There are tons of other free tutorials online and for the frugal and free-seekers: you’ll find our site to be a lollishop.
Rose
btw. TIP: How to keep a paper flower to stick in hair: generally a hot glue gun and a little hair clip will do the trick. You can also put a ribbon through the center and knot it to a hair tie to make a splashy hair bun.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:20 pm
A bobby pin.
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