Jenny's Crayon Collection: Kids Crafts

How To Make Friendship Bracelets (Taylor Swift Eras Tour Version)

Recently I had the opportunity to go the Taylor Swift Eras Tour in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Allegiant Stadium. This was the 2nd stop for the Eras tour and I had heard that people were going to exchange friendship bracelets. I knew I wanted to make some and exchange them. In this blog post I will show you how I made the bracelets and then what I wish I would have done differently in exchanging them.

To make friendship bracelets for the Era's tour any type of beads will do as long as there are letters. Letters are what is used to make the different song titles for each bracelet. This is a kit I picked up at Target with white, silver and black letters. I did not use it for the Las Vegas stop, but I am going again in New York and will make some more bracelets.

Find some bracelet supplies on Amazon. Buying at Michael's and Target was convenient, but the beads were a little more money. But on Amazon to save some money, especially if making a ton.

Letter beads

Colored beads

Colored beads with butterfly, stars and other shapes

Colored beads and lettered beads.

Get over 100 bracelet ideas or over 550 bracelet ideas featuring songs, albums and inside Swiftie jokes.

I picked up some beads, letters and string from Michaels. I wish I had had more letters to choose from. I am excited to use the above kit because the letters are available in alphabetical order and I do not have to base the bracelet based off the color of beads I find. I chose the stretchy string because it is easier to fit onto different sized hands. I also found that some holes on the beads were too small for the string. I am going to have to buy smaller string to use them.

The key to making these bracelets is to come up with cool sayings in the middle. These can be song titles, initials of the songs, random inside Swiftie jokes or allusions from the songs. Click here to get over 100 bracelet ideas or over 550 bracelet ideas featuring songs, albums and inside Swiftie jokes.

To get started I measured the string a little longer than my wrist.

Then I tied a bead to one end of the string. This bead will change later, but it helps the beads from coming off when they are being put on.

I tried to make color patterns with the beads I had. I really want to do another Me bracelet. I love this color palette.

I took the bead off the end and then tied the bracelet together. I then tucked the ends of the string into the beads.

I then put them in a plastic bag to bring with me to the tour. I put these beads in a clear purse and had no problem getting in.

I made the mistake of putting these beads in my bag and not on my wrist. In order to see other people that want to trade the bracelets have to be displayed. I would recommend putting the ones to trade on one wrist and the others to not trade on the other wrist.

Since I did not find anyone to trade with I found people to give them to that had cool costumes. Here are some girls that had steller outfits!

Here is a mother daughter duo that were sitting by me. It made me wish my daughter was at the concert with me.

I found someone celebrating their 50th birthday at the concert. How cool is that?

Lastly I found someone that was super pregnant and super cute and gave them a bracelet.

Here is someone I wished I had given a bracelet. She had a super cute outfit. I also gave one to my sister, and a friend and her daughters, but do not have pictures of that.

It was so fun to give these bracelets out at the concert. I would highly recommend it. Everyone was so happy to receive one. Next concert I am going to I will make 20-40 bracelets and trade away. What concert are you going to? Are you going to make bracelets?

Find some bracelet supplies on Amazon.

Letter beads

Colored beads

Colored beads with butterfly, stars and other shapes

Colored beads and lettered beads.

Click here to get over 100 bracelet ideas or over 550 bracelet ideas featuring songs, albums and inside Swiftie jokes.

Here are all the friendship bracelets I made for the Eras Tour. I can not wait to make some more.

Was the Egg Mazing Worth It?

I saw so many people post about the Egg Mazing Egg Decorator. I thought I should try it. I bought it at Target and got my eggs ready. The first egg went fine, but by the third egg the Egg Mazing had broken. The device became uneven at the contact points. When it was turning the egg, the egg would flip over and not stay spinning. It was a disappointment and I had to return it. Hopefully next year they improve that and it does not break..

What's In the Box

The Egg Mazing comes with 8 markers that can draw on eggs and one Egg Decorator Device that spins eggs.

How Does It Work?

The Egg Mazing is a pretty easy concept. The egg is placed in the middle and the device is turned on. The device spins the egg. Once the egg is spinning the markers are used to draw patterns and lines on the eggs. There are so many possibilities of how to use it.

Here are the eggs I decorated with the Egg Mazing. I would love to try it again next year and have it hopefully work this time!

Become a Kid Palentologist with the GeoSafari Fossil Excavation Kit

Want to know what present to buy your kid that will keep them occupied for hours? The GeoSarfari Fossil Kit from Educational Insights. We were playing with a bunch of toys this day and this is the toy that my kids kept coming back to again and again.

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Make a Harry Potter Inspired Owl Craft

This week I decided to do some Harry Potter inspired crafts with my kids. We made our own owls! My kids loved this and it really showed their creativity. My daughter came up with the idea for the eyes on the above two. This project was inspired by My Very Educated Mother, but we made it our own :)

For this project I wanted to keep it simple and used supplies I already had in the house so I would not have to purchase anything. I used

brown card stock
scissors
scalloped scissors
hole punch (could use a quarter or nickel and trace instead)
plate
cup
tombow adhesive

First we used the plate to draw a giant circle for the base of the owl.

Here is what it looked like.

Then we folded the owl to give it its wings and beak/head.

Then we cut out the feathers for the body with the scalloped scissors. My son got super inventive.

Then we used the Tombow adhesive to glue the feathers to the body.

For the eyes we tried googly eyes, but they were way too small. I decided to change mine.

I used a cup for the shape of the eyes and then used the hole punch to cut out the pupils.

My daughter and son used the hole punch and created half eyes by cutting the circles in half to create the eyes. Then we put some beaks on our birds. My son even put on some eyebrows. I loved how these turned out. Everyone got to be super creative and we made some really cute owls.

I have teamed up with some other bloggers to show some really cute Harry Potter inspired craft ideas. Check them out.

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Dream About Space with Wooden Spaceship Kit from Kid Made Modern

My kids absolutely LOVE space. During out stay at home time we have been studying astronomy. As part of the study we incorporated this kit from Kid Made Modern Wooden spaceship kit. My two year old even joined in on the fun with lots of supervision. She painted the pink one and proceeded to peel the stickers off before I get get a picture. She loved her little space ship she made.

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Repurpose a Cute Easter Craft

Do your kids like to paint? Mine love it! We picked up this canvas from the Target dollar spot and the colors included were absolutely horrible. We could not see them at all. I decided to use Crayola Signature Pearlescent Paints to help my kids bring this canvas to life.

First we chose a color palette and separated them out every color into their own spot in the paint holder.

Here are the paints we used.

The paints come in tubes and show the color on the end of the tube. All the colors are also named which I really like.

Here is the finished result. It turned out really cute and a lot better than it would have using the paints that came with the canvas. Do not be afraid to pick up the dollar spot canvases at Target, Michaels or JoAnn Fabric Stores and make them unique and vibrant by using different paints than included in the set.

I have teamed up with some other bloggers for some Creative Crafts Easter Crafts for kids. Make sure to check them out!