Sunflower Pillow

What you'll need:

• ½ sheet gold felt
• ½ sheet brown felt
• 4-6 cotton balls
• Small scrap of red felt
• Black craft paint
• Paintbrush
• Hot glue gun
• Pattern

How to make it:

1. Using the pattern cut out 2 large circles from brown felt and the flower from gold felt. Cut out the center circle of the felt flower.
2. Glue one of the brown circles onto the center of the flower.
3. Turn the flower over and glue the other brown circle to the other side, leaving about an inch or so open for the filling.
4. Carefully stuff the center of the flower with cotton balls.
5. Glue open end of the circle shut.
6. Cut an oval from the red felt to make a ladybug.
7. Paint one end of the red felt with black paint to create the head.
    Use the handle end of the paintbrush to add dots to the ladybug’s back.
    Let paint dry.
8. Glue your  ladybug to the flower.

Tips:

• Hot glue can really hurt, so have a grown-up help you with those steps.
• When gluing the last part of the center circle closed, use a toothpick or craft stick to press the felt onto the glue so that you don’t burn your fingers.
• Keep plenty of different colored felts on hand for fun and quick projects!

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Simple sew monster

What You Need:

• Felt
• Scissors
• Embroidery thread or fine wool
• Needle
• Button
• Stuffing ie polyfill or scrap fabric

Activity:

• Draw the shape you want your monster to be.
• Once you have the shape you want cut out to pieces of felt to the template you have drawn.
• Sew on the button for the eye or eyes and stich on a mouth.
• Then with needle and thread sew a simple stitch about 1/2cm in from the edge all along the outline, leaving a 5cm space to fill with stuffing.
• Once filled continue sewing until completely enclosed.

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Autumn Table Decoration

What you'll need:

• 1 brown paper lunch bag
• 1 cup rice
• Re-sealable zipper sandwich bag
• Fresh and silk leaves
• Twigs
• 3-4 green chenille stems, cut into fourths OR tape
• 60 cm [2 feet] twine
• Paint: yellow, brown, green
• Scissors
• Something to apply the paint with.

How to make it:

1. Paint bag with wide green stripes. Let dry before painting other colors.
1. When dry, add thin lines of yellow and brown. 
2. If not straight lines use splatters of paint.
2. Place a leaf at the top of a twig and secure with a section of chenille stem. 
3. Repeat with several twigs and leaves, both fresh and silk. You can also use tape instead of chenille. 
4. Trim three inches off the top of the bag. 
5. Place rice inside sandwich bag, place bag of rice into the brown paper bag. 
6. Place twigs into the bag. 
1. If twigs are too tall (leaves should touch the top of the bag), snap bottoms of twigs to shorten. 
7. Wrap twine around the bag twice. 
8. Tighten the twine and adjust leaves and twigs as you tighten. 
9. Tie twine in a bow and trim the ends. 

Tips:

1. Using fresh leaves is a temporary thing as most plants fresh leaves will wilt and curl up.  There are many natives in Australia that simply dry out still adhered to their twigs.Try using dried fallen leaves for a more permanent arrangement.On that note the fresh leaves make a nice addition to the table. 
2. For an even simpler project, paint stripes with only one color.
3. Instead of twine, use ribbon or yarn.

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Reference  Kaboose Crafts 

Gelatin Air fresheners

• water 1/2 cup 
• 2 small jars/or1 large jar 
• pan 
• ladle 
• 2 packets of gelatin   [10 grams]
• 1 T salt 
• color dye 
• fragrance oil

1. In a sauce pan add 1/2 cup hot water. 
2. When boiling stir in your gelatin.
3. Mix till dissolved. 
4. Add  1 Tablespoon salt,1/2 cup water-cold,and color dye-7-10 drops.
5. Mix well. 
6. Put into your jar .
7. Add in your fragrance.
8. Write fragrance on a label and stick label on jar.
9. Stir mix with spoon. 
10. let sit 2-3 days... do not refrigerate. enjoy

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Making a flower poiece for the hair.

Supplies needed.

•  4 pieces of Fabric squares
• Fabric squares
• 1 Hot Glue Gun And Sticks for tissues
• Hot glue gun and fabric glue for materal squares.
• 1 Hair Comb
•  Hot Glue Gun

Instructions

1. Choose the colour scheme you would like and find four fabric scrapes of the same size.
2. Also a contrasting colour for the inside of the flower.
3. Fold the four pieces together like a fan.Round off the edges.
4. Hot glue the fabric for the centre of the flower around the bundle of fabric.
5. Glue the bottom petals together to retain the circular shape of the flower.
6. Once the petals are glued together, separate and fluff the other petals to create a round and full flower.
7. Glue to the hair comb and let dry.

Hint

Fluff the hair before you slide the comb into place.

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Making paper flowers # 2

Supplies You'll Need

1.  Tissue Paper

2. Green Wire (stem)

3. Scissors

Directions

 1.Fold one piece of Tissue Paper accordion-style, each fold roughly 1'' thick

2. depending on the size of flower you want, cut accordion strip into segments (flowers shown are 4 segments per sheet of Tissue Paper)
3. Cut two 1/2'' slits in the middle of each segment

4. String thin wire through slits of paper, fold wire in half and twist wire to form 'stem'
5. Separate folds of the Tissue Paper using your fingertips in a back and forth pattern, molding into a beautiful flower





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References  We've got it

Tissue paper flowers # 1

Equipment

• 
  
• Scissors
• Green pipe cleanersColoured tissue paper
• Green florist tape [optional]
• pinking shears or other decorative shears [optional]
• Colored markers are optional

Directions

1. Stack two or three squares of tissue paper on top of each other on a flat work surface.
2. Either cut these into different sizes or use the squares of the same size.
3. Wrap end of pipe cleaner around the centre of the folded tissue to hold the tissue tightly - the green pipe cleaner is also the stem of the flower.
4. Now is the time to wrap the green florist tape around the pipe cleaner.
1. Start by wrapping the tape several times around the base of the flower. As you wrap going down ward the tape ideally covers 2/3 to 1/2 of the last laid layer of tape.
2. Gently pull open the tissue paper to make the bloom open.
5. Encourage experimentation by stacking two tissue colours together.
6. Decorate the tissue paper by
1.  cutting the ends edges of the tissue petal 
2.  using the markers to colour the petals.
1. flick a little water on the petals then hang the flower upside down in order to dry.
3. Using a very light spray spray the petals from a distance.
1. Allow to dry.

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