Is Summer in Seattle and we Seattleites crave the sunshine mostly all year-long, and once the sun comes out for several days, we recoil saying is too hot outside… A few sunny days ago, my kids were restless at home, wanting to stay indoors and escape the heat. After exhausting our usual crafts, I remembered I had bought materials for a craft I had in my head but had no idea how it would turn out. We only used two materials: “Craftwood Round Beads” and “Fibre-Craft Fuzzy Chenille Stix” in different patterns and colors. Please take a look below at the results. They had lots of fun with these little critters!
Assorted critters, from left to right: bee, a butterfly, a snail and a zebra.
Materials
Craftwood round beads and Fibre Craft Chenille Fuzzy Stix in assorted colors.
My favorite critter
Bee
My least favorite (it just gives me the creeps…)
Spider
My son made a house for the bee so she wouldn’t “get away”.
Kids happily playing.*
You can find the wood beads at Oriental Trading, Ben Franklins or Amazon. The fuzzy sticks are on sale at Amazon as well.
*Isn’t it amazing how little kids can be content with the simplest craft? I’d like to say this lasted for hours and hours on end but it was the afternoon and 1 hour later they both had meltdowns and insisted to stay indoors because of the “awful’ heat outside…(85F tops). Thank you for reading! As always, I love to hear from you!
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