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Kid's Crafts – Create a Shadow Box to Display Mementos
Shadow boxes, an old form of folk art, provide wonderful showcases for mementos. These are fun and easy for children of all ages, from pre-school upwards to decorate. Basically, a shadow box is a shallow box that hangs on the wall like a framed picture, allowing you to display both 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional keepsakes, from photographs to objects that remind one of a special time, people in their life, favorite activity, etc. Or a shadow box can hold a collection of items that represent a child's favorite things in life.
This project can also make a nice Mother's Day or Father's Day gift that depicts their favorite things, including the children of course! In school, shadow boxes are sometimes created from cardboard boxes as creative visual aids for book reports and such.
A young child, with a little help, can make a shadow box from a sturdy cardboard box, such as a shoe box, while older children with supervision may enjoy building the box as well. Another option is to have the home or lumber supply store cut the wood into the right-sized pieces. You can make the box as large as you want, but typically shadow boxes are around 9 by 11 inches with around 4 inches depth.
Keep in mind that the size and weight of the completed project will determine whether you mount it on the wall in the same way you would a heavy mirror or whether you can use a simple picture hanger.
You can also find pre-constructed shadow box frames at craft stores, and many of these have glass covers to protect the items and pictures from dust and humidity. Buying a pre-made shadow box is not cheating because the creative part of this craft is in the decorating.
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- Box (shoe box or shallow wooden box, dimensions of your choice.)
- Paint
- Brush
- Mod Podge or clear drying glue
- Scissors (round tip safety scissors for young children)
- 3-dimensional objects: these objects might include:
- Actual mementos, such as a ticket stub from an amusement park
- Objects that represent favorite things, such as a fishing fly for Dad
- Objects that help create a scene, such as a miniature deer or pinecone
Here are the steps to creating a shadow box:
1. Decide on your theme. As mentioned above, this can be anything you like. Here are some more examples of shadow box themes:
- Wildlife
- Vacation
- Landscape or Seascape
- Holiday
- If a gift, that person's favorite things
- Your favorite things (people, places, things, etc.)
- Your Pet
- Hobby
Instead of starting with a theme, another approach is to simply start looking through your collections of mementos and take it from there.
2. If you are starting with a box that isn't already painted or finished with a wood stain, then the first step is paint your box. In folk art tradition, you could use bright colors and stenciling even. If you have a theme, like the ocean, you could paint the background an ocean blue with even sky to match. It's all up to you!
3. Using the glue or Mod Podge, attach the 2-dimensional objects, such as photographs or clipped pictures from magazines to the background. Small 3-dimensional objects may also be attached here, such as a feather, pebbles, fishing fly – ones that won't protrude too much.
4. Complete your shadow box by adhering the rest of the 3-dimensional objects (such as miniatures) on the shelf-like bottom of the box.
You'll probably find this was so much fun that you want to make more. That's fine because as you can see, there can be a shadow box for every occasion and memory!
Fun Kids Crafts E-Book
Have you been searching the net for kid's crafts ideas for ever? I'm sure you feel frustrated by now because it feels as if you are wasting hours, hours you could have spent doing crafts with the kids. You definitely need a way to get hold of kid's crafts ideas faster and easier. I know exactly how you feel; we went through the same pain to get crafts to do with our little granddaughter Anabel, NO MORE!
Now there is a way you can stop all this and spend your time having fun with the kids actually doing the crafts. I have come across an e-book that has lots of fun and easy kid's crafts ideas for you to choose from. The name of the book is Fun Kids Crafts. The descriptions in this e-book are easy to follow and where it is necessary there are templates that you can print with ease. Most of the crafts can also be adjusted to suit your kid's level of development.
Fun kids crafts starts with a very good selection of Bible crafts. These crafts also include "Christian" crafts to teach the kids real "Christian" behavior. What I especially find handy is the pre-school craft that is also included in these bible crafts.
In the section with birthday gifts for dad, there is a really easy and fun craft that will be ideal for father's day. It boils down to "Dad, I'm nuts about you." Do have a look at it; even the little pre-schoolers will be able to do it with a little help. That is not all, there is still a whole category of father's day crafts that you'll love!
This only touches on all the great kids' crafts ideas you'll get in this e-book. Have a look at some of the other crafts available:
1. Easy Crafts:
Painting
Crafts using grass
Edible crafts
No glue crafts
----and many, many more
2. I've already mentioned the Father's day crafts
3. Fun crafts:
- Using rocks
- From different countries
- Woodworking
- Candles
- Summer crafts
- Winter crafts
- ---to many to mention them all
4. Halloween crafts (I can't wait for Halloween so we can do these with our granddaughter)
5. Pre-school crafts
6. Thanksgiving crafts
7. Christmas crafts
8. Mother's day crafts
9. Valentine's day crafts
The list goes on and on, too long for me to mention here. Suffice to say I'll never be at a loss for crafts to do with my granddaughter again. Do yourself a favor, have a look at Fun Kids Crafts.
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