It’s been a long time since we made a naptime creation. What that is for those new here are crafts for older kids- older being relative of course. This would be perfect for the 5-8 crowd! Instead of candy, cookies or the plain old paper valentine’s why not make your friends their very own princess wand? This valentine will be used long after February 14th! I chose to make a fringe but you could glue on sequins or plastic gems too!
- Gather your materials. You will need some sparkly sticky back foam, a dowel, a hole punch,double stick tape, some ribbon, a marker, scissors, some fun card stock and a cookie cutter for a stencil .
- Start by tracing the heart cookie cutter on the back of the foam.
- Cut out.
- Punch holes in both foam pieces, make sure they match up!
- Peel the backing off and sandwich the dowel in between the sticky foam.
- Cut the ribbon into short pieces.
- Tie the ribbon onto the wand.
- Using pretty card stock and double stick tape make a gift tag and write a message.
- Tie onto the wand and it’s ready to be given to your fellow princess!
Okay, glad I read in a little more detail, or I would have totally missed the sticky foam, and been wondering where the glue was going to be used.
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This is a great craft, how cute. I was just wondering what we were going to do for Valentine’s day for school. I think we’ll try one and see how it goes. Mine’s a little younger but she does love the crafty stuff, so maybe working together we can do it!
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That is soooo cute!
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This is great, anything to not encourage more sugar! Yesterday we made dance streamers, using a package of 8 pencils and a “Congrats graduate” decoration from the $1. We cut off the long attached ribbons from the decoration and taped it on a pencil. We were able to make 8 for $2. I must admit that I enjoyed dancing around to some good samba beats song after song even when the toddlers were done.
How cute! I have a 4 year old boy and I think he would love something like this! Perfect for play group goodies. Thanks!
Love this idea for the girls. Any ideas on what the boys would like? (Since I have girls, I’m clueless as to what 3 year old boys would play with)
Thanks!
Both my son and his best buddy who we gave this to are 3 and love it. You could also make some play dough and included a heart cookie cutter, that would be a big hit as well!
This will be perfect for my daughter’s 4th birthday party. She wants a princess themed party! They might have to be stars for the boys though!
I actually have dowels left over from a Christmas craft I made. I’m sure my own little princess would LOVE one of these, thanks for the suggestion!
Love, love, love it, Allie!!!
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I kinda want to make one of these for me. I’m really not joking.
Lee 🙂
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I love this idea– And I love this site!
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