I'm doing these for a kid's class and realized just how difficult it is for ADULTS to attach the foam sticky stuff to make the shaker SO, I used white craft foam. I cut the opening w/an x-acto. This way, they just use our SU glue stick to attach over the mitten; fill w/micro beads and put glue on the top of the craft foam frame and press the window/cover on. It sealed it just fine!
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2006 GMT Views: 649
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Registered: August 15, 2005 Location: Maryland Posts: 3408
Thu, Oct 26, 2006 @ 5:17 PM
Love the craft foam idea! I wonder if the foam is thin enough to slide into one of our square punches. That would make it faster to do multiples. Gonna have to check it out for myself, lol.
Registered: February 7, 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 713
Thu, Oct 26, 2006 @ 7:51 PM
What a cute ornament! How funny you mention using the foam sheets- I just saw that Micheal's had some purple flower foam shaker kits in their bargain bin and thought I would have to try that myself- it seems like a much easier way to keep everything in the shaker. I never thought of trying these with the kids- what a great, easy project for them!
Registered: July 31, 2004 Location: Itasca, Illlinois Posts: 315
Thu, Oct 26, 2006 @ 7:56 PM
Nope, the foam is too thick for our punches -- that's what I WAS hoping to use but really, since you don't see the edges of the opening, you can be pretty 'haphazard' in the way you cut the opening with the x-acto blade so it goes pretty fast.