Hello my friends of the Omschool! Do your students hate to write? That might be because they've not had enough practice. Writing skills are so important and yet often overlooked in curriculum given our digital communication age. So how about we teach kids to write with a flourish, instead of as a chore. And just in time for Earth Day, here are lesson plans for recycled trash crafts for kids to make as gifts.
Use this guide to design a lovely flower pens, feather pens and decorated vases for gift crafts. Give gift crafts for Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Teacher Appreciation or holiday gifts. You can make these flower pens and decorated vases from recycled materials, purchasing only pens or pencils.
Recycled trash crafts for kids: Flower pens.
It's more fun to write when you have a fancy flower or feather pen! These make great gift crafts for loved ones. And they do double duty as interactive crafts for kids. Best of all trash crafts are cheap or free and lots of fun to make! Even the youngest can have success making recycled trash crafts for kids. You will need only three things:
- a new pen or pencil
- a silk blossom or large plume feather (available from discount, dollar or craft stores). Or, save flowers from old floral arrangements for recycled trash crafts.
- You need strong tape too. Floral tape is best.
How to make feather or flower pens
Trim blossoms and feathers to a point on one end to work with. Attach flower or feather to the upper quarter of the pen or pencil, by winding tape around both. Begin just below the bottom of the flower (feather) and continue overlapping around for about two inches. You can leave the eraser exposed.
Create a bouquet of flower pens using several different kinds of silk flowers. Silk roses, carnations, daffodils and tulips are nice large single blossom flowers. Choose an ostrich feather or large plume for the feather pen.
Recycled trash crafts for kids: Decorated vases
Pop your bouquet of flower pens in a bud vase. Or make decorated vases from recycled trash. Find any recycled trash glass jar or bottle. Remove label and scrub clean. To make decorated vases, paint jar with stained glass or window cling paint. Make your own window cling paint by mixing tempera paint and school glue or adding food coloring to glue. Glass paint dries in clear bright color. Decoupage decorated vases for gift crafts for kids. Water down white school glue, half water and half glue in recycled trash pie plate. Tear recycled trash wrapping paper, tissue paper or any lightweight paper scraps into inch square pieces. Dip paint brush in glue and brush it on the back of a scrap of paper. Attach to jar. Apply another layer of glue wash over the paper. Continue doing this over the entire jar, overlapping edges to cover jar. . Create different colors overlapping primary colors- red, blue and yellow, you can make the secondary colors - purple, orange and green. As your decorated vases dry, the tissue paper will become more transparent and the glue will give it some shine. It takes on a sort of stained glass window look.
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