Saturday, November 26, 2011

How To Make A Thanksgiving Headdress For A Toddler #GlueNGlitter #Cbais

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The day before Thanksgiving I decided that it would be super fun to make Little Bit and I to make a Thanksgiving project. My Mom's Great Grandmother was a full blooded American Indian. To celebrate that part of our family ancestry I thought it would be super neat to make him an American Indian headdress. It was a great project to do with an almost two year old.

We started out by going to Walmart to buy some supplies (check out our shopping trip here):
                                     
                               Elmer's Craft Bond Glue Dots          X-Acto Scissors




Later that afternoon Hubs, Little Bit, and I went outside. Hubs was winterizing our small engines and Little Bit and I were gathering more materials for our Thanksgiving headdress. I let Little Bit explore the yard. He picked up some acorns, leaves, and a bit of broken pine tree.


Now we started the crafty part of our project. We got our comfy clothes on and got to business.


I free handed some feathers onto the Elmer's Tri-Fold Foam Board . I really liked using this bigger board so I will have some on hand for my next project. 


I cut the feathers out. I tried using my new X-Acto Scissors but they were no match for that thick foam board. Luckily my trusty kitchen mamba jamba scissors worked in a pinch. After I had the feathers cut out I let Little Bit color them. I did let him color on the foam board so he wouldn't color on my comforter! 


Next I took a piece of floor paper and measured Little Bit's head with it. I had to add a little to it. Thankfully I had bought those Elmer's Craft Bond Glue Dots. Fold the paper to the width that you want like this.


Add a little extra with some Elmer's Craft Bond Glue Dots if you need to.


Whala! We have a base for our Thanksgiving headdress.


I used my Elmer's Craft Bond Glue Dots again and placed the feathers on the base.


Next we took the outside elements and attached them to the base and the feathers with our Elmer's Craft Bond Glue Dots.



After all of our crafting fun it was time to try on the Thanksgiving headdress. Well that didn't quite work out. It didn't work out the day before Thanksgiving or on Thanksgiving day. Le sigh...


We did however have lots of fun putting it together, taking out nature walk to find elements, and gathering up more Elmer's products.


Have you ever made a Thanksgiving headdress with your Little Bits? Does this look like a simple project you could do? I think we may have to do this again but with a winter inspired theme! Happy crafting everyone.

This project has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Elmer's #gluenglitter #collectivebias #cbias but all of the opinions and the tutorial are my very own. 

22 comments:

  1. Adorable. Love the nature inspired headdress :)

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  2. Little Bit's head dress is adorable...I've tried the glue dots and they are so cool. I love using them!

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  3. Love the headdress! He did a super job! I've been wanting to try those glue dots! You've inspired me to get to crafting!

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  4. how cute! Love it! Nothing like doing crafts with a toddler. It takes a brave mommy. but it's always so adorable! And I LOVE Glue dots!

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  5. I love that you let him decorate it. It makes it more special.

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  6. Two thumbs up. You are a wonderful mom.

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  7. Cute! I love projects that include the kids!

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  8. Little Bit did a great job coloring and helping!! I bet it looks super cute on!! :-)

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  9. Aww, he is so cute! We love his little hands at work, so cute!!!!
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  10. What a great idea! Looks like you guys had a great time doing it as well. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

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  11. Aww...this is super cute! I'll bet your little guy had a great time making the headdress.

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  12. LOL... at least you had fun making it, even if he didn't want to wear it. You could of used it as a center piece.

    Maybe he will use a place mat he makes next time.

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  13. How fun is that?! Looks like it was a big hit, and a fun project.

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  14. It's late Sunday night, but I'm finally finding time to hop with Lucy and Sam! I'm a follower!

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  15. Great project and great fun. I love spending time crafting with my grandchildren. I love the headdress! I am sure he enjoyed making it as much as wearing it. I spent some time teaching Little bug to use a glue stick on Thanksgiving. He was amazed it made things stick to paper.

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  16. I love how you incorporated seasonal items from nature in your headdress! An your crafter is an absolute doll! My "little" guy is now taller than Mom!

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  17. So darling! I work with a group of kids after school and I may just have them make this! They would think it's so cute! Thanks for the idea!

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  18. So cute! I am "pinning" it on Pinterest to remember for next year!

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  19. Great head dress! The leaves and acorn make it perfect!

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    Janelle @ http://youngcouponmama.com

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