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Kids Craft – Tissue Paper Snail

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This Kids craft is super easy and is perfect for toddlers and older kids too. The crafting process is great for use of pincher skills helping the child to develop their hand coordination. This craft is perfect for incorporating a reading activity. Check out these Books about snails.

List of Supplies:

  1. Colored Craft Tissue Paper
  2. Colored Craft Paper
  3. Craft Glue
  4. Scissors
  5. Pencil
  6. Template

Instructions:

Step (1)

Print and cut out the patterns from the template. Select a colored craft paper and trace the patterns on it. Cut out the traced patterns from the craft paper.

Step (2)

Cut tissue papers into small pieces (2cm X 2cm). Select more than 3 colors.

 

Step (3)

Take a piece of cut out tissue paper and crumble it into a small round shape. Similarly, crumble the rest of the cut out tissue papers into a small crumbled round shape.

 

Step (4)

Take the round cut out pattern prepared in step one and start to glue the crumbled tissue papers on it.

 

Step (5)

You can start from anywhere you want but it’s better to start from the center of the round pattern.

Step (6)

Keep gluing the crumbled tissue papers until the whole round pattern is filled.

Step (7)

Now take a regular white stationery paper or art paper and glue the body pattern of the snail on it. Attach the snail body near the bottom side of the paper.

Snail Template

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I thought one way to celebrate fall without getting too Halloween would be to look for some pumpkin cross stitch patterns that aren’t jack o’lanterns. These can be used to decorate all the way through Thanksgiving, and some of the little ones you could even stitch on cloth napkins for your holiday table, like the mini pumpkin pattern from Craft with Cartwright. 

This one is just 39 by 36 stitches, or less than 3 inches around, and it uses three colors.

The individual pumpkins in this pumpkin sampler could be stitched individually on smaller projects if you wanted. It’s from Cross with Me on Etsy and features plain pumpkins in different colors and plaid pumpkins. As shown it measures 7.5 by 7.36 inches and is 105 by 103 stitches. It uses five colors.

One cool thing about cross stitch is that you can use designs made for other crafts to make cross stitch projects. For example, beading charts also use squares and you can stitch the same pattern just fine. This pumpkin stack from Bracelet Book includes the word Boo but you could just stitch those areas in the same color as the pumpkin if you want to keep it plain.

Demented Stitchers on Etsy has a pretty pumpkin cross stitch pattern that looks like it was stenciled. This is a great one for beginners to try as it’s only 71 by 76 stitches, or about 4.4 by 4.7 inches on 14 count fabric, and it uses three colors.

For a bit of a fancier look, try this scroll pumpkin pattern from Annie’s. It’s rated easy and it looks like it uses about five colors.