We all love to display our child's best school work and art work,
but sometimes the fridge will only hold so much! A "washing line" is an original
way to display work and can be used flat against a wall or across a room. Get
the children to help you make some personalized clothes pegs (below), keep
changing the display and let your children be really proud of their
achievements.
Top tip: Fastening your pegs around the edge of a
paper plate and balancing the plate on top of a cup will mean that both sides of
the pegs can be decorated at the same time and the peg won’t accidentally be
stuck closed!
Name pegs Paint wooden clothes peg in bright colours. Glue on a pre-cut foam letter
(or cut your own). Alternatively print out letters from one of our alphabets, cut out, laminate and glue on.
Painted pegs Paint wooden pegs in acrylic paints. We made dotty and stripy patterns.
Heart peg We painted a peg with acrylic paint and then glued on a foam heart decorated
with glitter glue and a heart sticker. You could use any foam shape that you can
imagine (try our templates for inspiration).
Glitter peg Paint a wooden peg with PVA (white) glue and tip fine glitter over the top;
shake off any excess. When the peg is dry a coat of acrylic varnish will protect
the glitter.
Sequin peg Paint a wooden peg with acrylic paint and leave to dry. Use PVA (white) glue
to stick on sequins. When the peg is dry add a coat of acrylic varnish for
protection.
Beaded peg Paint a wooden peg with acrylic paint and leave to dry. Thread some beads on
to embroidery thread. We used wooden beads but any will do. Tie the ends of the
thread to the peg and paint over the thread with PVA (white) glue to secure.
Photo crafts
Kids love to have photos of themselves displayed around the house and
these photo crafts will give you lots of ideas for involving them in
creating those displays! And of course, photo crafts make great gifts
too.
