Last Minute Craft Ideas

Do you wait to the last minute to get going on anything?

With this fun crafts, it doesn't matter whether you wait til the last minute or plan ahead.

Hopefully if you're reading this post, you will plan ahead! On to the brainstorming. Here are the last minute craft ideas you can do.

1. Painting Birdhouses

Painting birdhouses can be a fun hobby! Most unpainted birdhouses range from $5.00 to $20.00 at Michaels craft store, a chain craft store here in the U.S. For the most part, we keep unpainted birdhouses in stock year 'round. Birdhouses can be purchased from art & gift stores, craft shows, garage sales, antique stores, & even thrift stores. They are plentiful, eight times you get an eye for seeing them. You might wonder, why birdhouses?

Since birdhouses are made out of wood, they can be painted over & over. They are great to practice on. In fact, the more paint, the better (especially if we end up outside). Another reason why you should pick to work with them has to do with the multiple planes of birdhouse architecture. Trying new design ideas on different planes is less hard than painting on 2-D formats. When painting on 2-D canvases, artists need to worry about composition & framing, whereas this is typically not much of a concern when painting birdhouses.

2. Make CSLP Stickers into Pins

Put the CSLP stickers on tag board and use a large circular craft punch to punch out the circles again. Apply a self-adhesive pin to the back.

Variations:

• If you don t have the craft punch, have volunteers cut out the stickers on the tag board.
• Use any commercial stickers oar small pictures of pets on tag board.
  
• Use Ellison or Accu-Cut mini dies to cut out mini shapes of pets, or paw prints and make them into pins.
  
• Laminate the cardboard and sticker after are adhered together to make theme more durable.

3. Uses for Old Calendars that Feature Pets

Stores that carry calendars often offer them at significantly reduced prices this time of year. A good place to check are dollar-type stores.

Puzzles:

• Trim larger calendar pictures down and crop close to the animals. Glue the picture onto tag board and cut horizontally into about three or four strips to make a simple pet puzzle for younger preschool children.
  
• Cut the pictures into more complicated pieces if you want to use them with older children.
  
• Laminate the pieces to make them last longer. Often the cover of the calendars are already laminated.
  

Pins:

Cut the small pictures on the back of the calendar out and use them to make pins as described in #1.