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Yarn-Wrapped Collage Letters
In the midst of your spring cleaning, maybe redecorating is in the air. This craft is definitely worthy of hanging on your child’s bedroom wall, and it will keep parents as busy as the kids.
What you’ll need:
- Corrugated cardboard (check your recycling bin for boxes from your last amazon delivery or diaper boxes)
- Tape
- Collage items, like buttons, sequins, jewels, beads, stones, shells, tissue paper, etc.
- White glue
- Yarn
What you’ll do:
- Ahead of time, parents can cut the cardboard into letters. (Spell your child’s name or use the first letter of his or her name).
- Wrap the cardboard letter with yarn. To do this, tape the end of the yarn to the back of the letter and begin wrapping, keeping each pass close to the next so there are few, if any, spaces where you can see the cardboard through the yarn.
- Show your child how to squeeze a little bit of glue onto the yarn-wrapped letter and place a piece of the collage materials on top. Use as few or as many collage items as your child would like.
Tips for Parents:
- Older kids will enjoy wrapping the yarn around the letters. Don’t worry about keeping it neat. Encourage them to cover the entire letter, or use different colors.
- Make letters with a more natural twist by wrapping the cardboard with jute and using natural materials, like shells, stones, and pressed flowers, as your collage materials.
- Keep the collage materials in a large chip and dip tray. The many sections and large size will prevent your child from dumping out the materials. However, for younger kids (2 and under), dumping out the materials is the fun part! Let them explore the materials before reining them in and helping them glue the pieces down one at a time.
- Provide glue in smaller bottles and let kids squeeze out as much as they want. It will dry, and they will learn how to control it better if you give them free access to squeeze it all out. Running out of glue on the first flower will teach them a valuable lesson too.
- Resist the urge to fix your child’s work. Isn’t it much more valuable to have a work of art that represents your child’s personality and developmental abilities at his or her age than have a work of art that you created? Which one will make you look back and smile when you see it a year from now?
