Grassy Gift Bag for spring/summer or Chirsitmas gifts.

This fun little gift bag can be for Easter, Spring, Summer or Christmas. It's a great way to differentiate your gift bag from others and kids love to use glue!

Supplies:
Small plastic bag, the thick kind. This one was from Ulta.
Green Tissue paper
Multi colored Brads
Glue

Directions:

1.Lay down some paper or placemats and put bag on top.

2. Tear the tissue paper into 2 x 2" squares.

3. Glue squares to one side, overlapping them to create a nice cover. Then let dry for about 15 minutes. Turn over and repeat on the other side.

4. Once the bag is completely dry, start poking the brads through and folding back the ends so they stay.

Voila! You are done. For different holidays use different colored tissue and brags. You could use red tissue with white brag for V-day, or Orange tissue with black brags for Halloween.

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A colorful Shoe

What happens to all those shoes that don't fit anymore or one pair gets lost?? Why you turn them into art of course. This is a great activity to teach children about recycling and the loss of a shoe or some other toy that needs parts.

Supplies:
Shoe, straw/hay, tissue paper, & paint

Directions:
1)Find an old shoe and start painting it different colors or paint a pattern onto it.
2) Stuff the shoe full of some straw/hay
3) paint tissue paper or use colored paper
4) Pour glue into the bottom of the shoe and put in the straw and tissue paper.
5) Let Dry!

Your shoe can be used as a paper weight or a decoration. Just keep it away from the cats and dogs!!