Bean Art

Have lots of fun creating works of art using different kinds of beans. Use different colored beans to produce wonderful and exciting effects. 

Materials Needed:

A Piece of Card board (You may use paper, but you must consider that the more beans you use the heavier your project becomes)

Beans (lots and lots of beans. For this project I used a combination of green mongo beans and white kidney beans. However, you could use other varieties such as red beans and even corn.)

Crafts glue

Yarn

Shaped Rubber bands

Markers

Procedure:

1. Design  a pattern for your artwork. You could used shaped rubber bands, draw shapes and use yarns as borders. I suggest you use borders to keep the seeds in place. However, you could just draw the shapes and highlight the borders using markers.

2. Populate the shapes using your beans and glue. Experiment with different colored and shaped beans for effect. Just remember the more beans you use the heavier your artwork becomes.

3. Let your glue dry and settle. You could also color beans to produce a more colorful effect.

4. Congratulations your done...

Marshmallow Flower

Went to the grocery store last week and found a great gift item along the candies section. Candies now a days come in different shapes, forms, sizes and packages. Making them a excellent source for gift items. Here is an example of small bite sized marshmallows shaped like flowers and packaged in a plastic bag shaped like a flower. You could either give the marshmallows directly as a gift or you spice it up a little bit to make it extra special. Here are some ideas you could do with your marsh mallow flower.

1. Personalize it by either printing dedications and pictures on a sticker paper to decorate your marshmallow flower. You could also use ready made stickers or download pictures from the Internet to print on your sticker paper.

2. Use different colored ribbons to decorate your marsh mallow flower.

3. Add some dedication or note on a small piece of card board and attach it to your marshmallow flower.

Rocket ship from recycled Materials

Make something new with old and discarded house hold materials. There are a lot of things you could make with your old stuff.  Instead of throwing away your house hold junk, why not reinvent them and turn them into something fun and exciting, like a rocket ship.

Create Your Own Party Banner

Tired of using custom made party banners? Why not design your own party banners and customize it to your chosen party theme. 

Materials Needed:

Colored Papers

Crafts Glue

Foam Shapes

Stickers

Straw Rope

Stapler 

Staple wires

Glitter Glue

Scrap Booking shapes

Procedure:

1. Choose your theme...

2. Decide on the shape of your banner. You can either use traditional shapes, such as circles, squares or triangles. Better yet be creative and use other non-traditional shapes, such as animals and vehicles...

3. Decorate your banners by glueing on the foam or scrap booking shapes. You can also download more

   shapes from the internet and print it on a plain sheet of paper.

4. Add Some glitter glue for effect...

5. Hang your party banners by stappling them on your straw rope.

6. Congratulations your done...

Transferring Sandpaper Art into your shirt or cloth bags

A different way of making use of your sandpaper art. Wish you could wear or carry around your sand paper art? You could actually transfer your favorite sandpaper drawings into a plain shirt or cloth bag using a process called heat transfer...

Materials Needed:

Sandpaper (different textures produces different effects)
A Box of Crayons (Try Glow in the dark Crayons for effect)
Plain sheet of paper
A plain shirt or cloth bag
A Flat Iron

Procedure:

1. Decide on the pattern or illustration you are going to create.
2. Using your box of crayons draw like crazy and produce the art work you desire (experiment with different textures of sandpaper).

3. Since you would be transferring your artwork into a different medium, the image that will be transferred into your shirt or cloth bag will become inverted. Just imagine that you are looking at the image from a mirror, so you could produce the correct orientation.

4. Select the medium you would want to transfer your artwork into (Plain shirt or Cloth bag).
5. Position the sand paper on top of the area you are going to transfer the image to.
6. Place a clean sheet of paper underneath the shirt or cloth bag to prevent the crayon from passing to the back.
7. Iron the sandpaper until the crayon has completely melted and the image has transferred to the shirt or cloth bag.

8. Congratulations your done...