Summer is here. Shells, seasides, and souvenirs. I was tasked with bringing some more sea shell themed crafts to the show.
This is a series of crafts I did last year in celebration of one of my favorite places and the memories I took home with me. I'll be sharing four more crafts today. I'm blogging about a few, and I'll post the video with the rest on
facebook account later. One idea is to create one of these family initial letters. It would be a fun memory from a honeymoon beach walk, or a family vacation.
I bought a large chipboard letter at Hobby Lobby, and painted it a color that went with my room (b/c you can see a bit of the board underneath, you could also cover it with sand first).
Then it was a simple matter of gluing shells on with a hot glue gun.
I also took some baby food jars and made memory jars. I went to Maine a few years ago and gathered some sea glass, sea shells and sand from Galveston, and a bracelet made by natives in Brazil and some pieces of broken brick I found around a church (our group had helped raise funds to build the church, and these were used in the construction). Easy and cheap. Instead of spraying the lids, I used this mod podge technique I use a lot to
make decorative jars.
Last up...shell game pieces. I painted a paper mache box, and the pieces can be stored inside. In this case I used two different types of shells, but you could also paint the shells two different colors.
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