Bread Dough Crafting.

Bread Dough Crafting has been a favorite craft in my adult classes for many years and now it has become a favorite to do with my Grandson, Liam.

I like to sculpt tiny roses to decorate the tops of gift boxes  or to glue onto ornaments or other projects.

Liam likes mixing up the dough and then creating his own original art.

We make a big batch of dough in the food processor.

take the crust off of 10 pieces of soft white bread .Break apart and place in food processor.  For 10 pieces of bread we add 8oz. bottle of Tacky glue.  It mixes into a ball very quickly.  Remove from bowl and  lay on a  piece of plastic that has been sprinkled with baby powder.  Now you can add paint if you want it colored  Work small pieces of dough in  your hands until it is smooth and not sticky.or use plain and paint your creations after they have dried overnight.

Left over dough can be kept in the refrigerator for several weeks.

Kids love to create their own designs and we find the adults in our house frequently join in the fun.

Shrink Art has been a favorite crafting material for many years for adults and children. Our new improved shrink plastic can be printed right in your ink jet printer.

The shrink art designs can be shrunk in your home oven or a toaster oven which is the way I like to do it so the kids can watch it shrink

For my crafting day with my Grandkids I printed out some of their favorite animal and monster designs in  line drawing  so they could color them in.  They used Prismacolor art  pencils  which made this a  clean project and easy  for them to do. Even 2 year old Avila loved coloring in her own way. By punching a hole with a paper punch, Liam was able to make a tag to go on the zipper of his back pack.

Shrink art is available on www.MarleneWatson.com
It is available in packages of 12 sheets or in bulk of 100 sheets

Instruction and tips are included with each order.

Crafting with Grandson was a fun shirt Liam painted with Tulip fabric dyes. He likes black shirts so he called this his galaxy shirt.

To begin he used his hand to twist the center of the shirt around in a swirl.Then using a spray bottle with half water and half bleach he sprayed the  swirl several times until it bleached out most of the black color.

The spray bottles come in a kit with several bright colors of powder that you mix with water.

He enjoyed mixing up the colors to make his galaxy design

This was a fun project and surprisingly not very messy.  We just spread out a large garbage bag on the table to place the shirts on.

Let  the shirts dry overnight and then they can be washed with out fading.