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DIY Glitter Pencils

Post author By vickybarone
Post date August 25, 2016

Looking for back-to-school ideas with a little pizzazz? We took some plain pencils and gave them life! These pencils are the perfect end-of-Summer craft your kids will love. They make great teacher gifts too! Here’s how to make your own…

Supplies: pencils, glue, a paint brush, and glitter.

Directions:
1. Squeeze a little glue onto your work surface like you would paint.
2. Dip the paint brush into the glue and begin painting it onto the metal part of a pencil.
3. Shake glitter onto the glue to coat completely.
4. Tap the pencil on its side to shake off any excess glitter.
5. Let dry!

What do you think? Will you be adding some glitter to your pencil bag this school year?

Tags back to school, DIY, glitter, pencils, teacher gift

DIY Kids

DIY Apple Jars

Post author By vickybarone
Post date August 23, 2016

Back to School season is upon us! Today we’re sharing an easy and inexpensive DIY gift your new teachers will love!

Supplies: mini glass jars (our were from the Dollar Spot at Target!), red acrylic paint, green acrylic paint, a paint brush, green felt, brown pipe cleaner, and hot glue.

Directions:
1. Pour red paint into a jar and roll it around to coat the inside. Pour out excess paint into the next jar and repeat!
2. Rest the jars upside down to let the paint dry and let any excess paint drip out. We rested ours on bamboo skewers on top of wax paper overnight.
3. Use a paint brush to paint the lips with green paint. Let dry.
4. Cut leaves out of green felt and hot glue to the lids.
5. Cut pipe cleaner into 1″ pieces, fold in half, and hot glue to the base of each leaf to create the stems.

Personalize these gifts with some tags from Places for Faces that you can print from home!

Aren’t they cute?? These make great teacher gifts too! Add erasers, paper clips, or other supplies to the insides and gift to your new teachers. If you’d like to add candy to the jars, we recommend painting the red on the outside instead. These jars are not food safe the way we created them.

Looking for more back to school ideas? Check these out!

Tags back to school, crafts, DIY, Kids, teacher gift

DIY Kids

Back to School Teacher Gifts

Post author By vickybarone
Post date August 17, 2015

Back to School season is here, can you believe it? Today we’re sharing a simple DIY gift that your kiddos can make for their new teachers!

Supplies: tin cans, acrylic paint, and a paint brush.

Directions:
1. Paint each can with white paint to prime it.
2. After the white paint has dried, paint each can in whatever colors you like. We created an ombre look by painting one can blue, then adding white paint to the same color blue to lighten it for the second can. For the third can, we added two more coats of white paint.
3. Using a contrasting color, paint your little one’s hand with a foam brush and press it onto a can to create a hand print.
4. Let dry completely and add pencils, flowers, candy, or any kind of treat.

*Optional: Coat each can with a spray acrylic sealer.

The cans can act as pencil holders…

…or little vases!

They are a great way to say “thank-you-in-advance for a great school year” or “thank you for a great Summer” to any teacher or camp counselor you might be saying goodbye to.

Whatever the message, a tin can full of flowers is a sweet way to start off the new school year. 🙂

Tags back to school, Gift, Gift Ideas, kids crafts, paint, recycle, teacher gift