Crafting 101

So if you saw yesterday’s post about making the bag out of recycled jeans, check out what I put inside the bag! This bag was for my four year old friend Wyatt’s birthday. Being a boy, I had to be creative!

I decided to use old baby food jar lids to create a memory game. I took twenty jar lids and spray painted them yellow. It took a couple of coats. So when making this, the bag took me about an hour or so to make, the lids took several hours with all the drying so be prepared. You can start spraying the lids before making the bag if you want!

Anyways, while the paint dried, I went into my word processing program and made two circles, two triangles, two squares, two stars and two diamonds and then wrote out the numbers 1 - 5 putting each number twice. I colored them in and made them pretty, well, pretty for a boy! Make sure the objects are smaller than the jar lids inside, I measured the circle part that pops up when you open the jar. I then printed them out and usd my circle cutter to cut them out.

I used craft glue to glue the paper into each lid, but I think hot glue would work better. At least it would dry faster. I just couldn’t find my glue gun of course when I needed it! So you glue them in after the paint is all dry and once the glue is dry, you need to spray a clear coat on them. You can find this in the glue aisle of your craft store in a spray can. DO THIS OUTSIDE!!! You’ll regret the smell if you don’t! The clear coat is to keep the paint from chipping and it’ll seal the paper to the lid around the edges. The key is to spray not too close when doing the insides so it doesn’t ruin the paper. The clear coat needs to have three to four coats on each side so this will take a couple of hours.

Once everything is dry, I did all this in one day and let it dry overnight and it was fine for the next day, but adding an extra day would help it even more. But once it’s all dry, put the lids in the bag and voila! You have a cool and unique memory game! Good luck!

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