Think Crafts Blog – Craft Ideas and Projects – CreateForLess

Congratulations to Liz A., Tina Kistinger, Nelda Copsey, Kelsey Kunkel, & Becki Wagner who were all randomly selected as our Free Stuff Friday winners and will all receive a K&Company Americana Prize Pack! Five winners will take home 15 pieces of K&Company Americana Paper and 3 packs of K&Company Americana Stickers! The prize pack could contain but not limited to the items shown below.

You’ll find a whole new world open up when you discover K&Company stickers. With so many different kinds from which to choose, die-cut to embossed, glitter to vellum, even felt and more, you won’t know where to start! Or stop for that matter. K&Company Americana Word Clearly Yours Stickers include different size circles with single stars inside, an American flag, and captions America the Beautiful, Old Glory, Pride, HOME, Brave, AMERICA, and We the People. K&Company Americana Layered Accents are 25 die-cut layered stickers in star shapes, American flags, and circles with various stars & stripes patterns, as well as other patriotic patterns from the collection. The Americana Star Corner paper has a text/stripe tone-on-tone Navy background with a pattern of a star with stylized branches of leaves in each corner in Linen and Barn Red. Paper has edges that are distressed with text.

Are you looking for some patriotic craft ideas for Independence Day? Check out our Patriotic Crafts Pin Board for inspiration, ideas and projects for Memorial Day, Veteran’s Day & the 4th of July. Plus the summer Olympics start soon!

The winning answers to “If you could have any job in the world, which one would you want?” was…

“Any job – I would love to be a zookeeper – working with a wide variety of animals would be great!” – Liz A.

“Aside from the jobs that I currently hold, I would love to work as a textile conservator in a museum. Preserving our history through textiles is an important part of our heritage.” – Tina Kistinger

“I have finally got my dream job. Being retired and also pet/house sitting. I love animals and I know when the humans go on vacation the pets still need to play and have company. Plus I still have time to do my quilting or crafting.” – Nelda Copsey

“I love being a stay at home mom! That is the job that I would pick.” – Kelsey Kunkel

“I would love to work at any big craft company and play with paper and die-cut machines all day!” – Becki Wagner

By Crafts for Learning Contributor, Danielle from the blog Crayonbox Learning.

The domino matching game can be created with any color cardstock, or any type of stickers. For my example I chose to use 2 colors of pastel carstock to make a matching game. I selected a package of baby farm animal stickers which would match well with the farm theme. This project is simple, and easy to put together in just a few minutes. This is one that the kids can work on right alongside of you.

Many of the projects that I create use materials that can be purchased from CreateForLess.com, incorporated with basic items that you may already have on hand. I primarily create learning resources for teachers and child care professionals that have limited budgets. By shopping at CreateforLess.com, teachers can stretch their supply budget while not having to sacrifice quality or projects that would enhance or contribute to the lessons that they are teaching.

Materials needed:

• Stickers
• Cardstock
• Scissors
• Lamination film / Clear Contact Paper
• Domino Matching Game Template
• Avery Magnet Paper (optional)

Directions:

1. Print off the Domino Matching Game Template onto cardstock. Using a template makes it easier to keep the game pieces the same size, and it saves time having to draw it out onto the individual pieces of paper. Print out as many sets of domino matching game pieces as desired.

2. Cut out the individual game pieces, leaving the line in the middle. This provides you with 2 halves in which to create dominoes OR you can create a matching game as shown in the example.

3. Select the stickers for your project. Stickers don’t have to be acid free, as you will be laminating over top of them.

4. Place the stickers onto the domino matching game pieces as desired. In the sample, one animal sticker fit perfectly on each square of the game piece.

5. After the stickers are secure on the game pieces, laminate it for durability using a heated laminator or clear contact paper.

Now you’re ready to play!

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