Design Your Own Flip Flops Craft
We had such fun with this flip flops craft! It is a perfect
group activities - perhaps for a summer party, or a long rainy afternoon with
friends - and uses up all your scraps of paper, wrapping paper, card and ribbon!
Younger children will enjoy the same craft using craft foam, card and pipe
cleaners.
You could use these flip flops to decorate your house, your
fridge, or the front of an invitation or birthday card. A particularly nice pair
can even be framed (leave out the glass) to make a cute picture for your child's
bedroom wall.
Flip
Flops Template here
You will need:
- An assortment of card, paper, wrapping paper (gift wrap),
craft foam, etc
- Ribbons and braids (or pipe cleaners for younger kids)
- Scissors and glue
- Decorations such as beads, plastic or silk flowers, stickers etc can be used
if you like.
- Template
Instructions:
Print out the Flip Flops Template and cut out the individual
pieces. Younger kids will just need the bigger pair of flip flops; older kids
will want to use both.
For younger kids -
Using the larger two templates, draw round them onto the craft
foam and carefully cut out. An adult should pierce three holes in the flip flops
where shown on the template (we used a pencil, but you could also use nail
scissors or a metal skewer or bradawl). Use two pipe cleaners per flip flop, as
shown in the photo above, bending the pipe cleaner backwards on the underneath
of the flip flop to hold it in place.
We further decorated our flip flops by cutting a small circle
of craft foam and threading the pipe cleaners through that as well, and also by
threading beads onto the pipe cleaner before pushing it through the second hold.
For older kids -
Use two different materials for your flip flops, cutting the
larger templates from one and the smaller templates from the other. Pierce three
holes in the smaller template, then thread pieces of ribbon or cord through the
holes (we found it easier if we pushed our ribbon through the holes with a sharp
pencil). Use sticky tape to fasten the ribbon on the underneath of the flip
flop, then glue the top of the flip flop to the bottom, sandwiching the ends of
the ribbon in between.
If you like, you can cut the flower shapes out and use them to
finish off your flip flops. Alternatively use beads, plastic flowers, hearts or
butterflies or even pompoms to decorate them!
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