Creative Girly

Make your own candy/trinket box

It's been a little while since we've posted here, but I have a bunch of videos that need to be edited and put up. If only there were more time in the day!

Creative Girly is back to show you how to create your very own trinket or candy box using popsicle sticks, glue and embellishments.

These boxes make great holiday gifts for grandparents or even for Dad's desk at the office. They're wonderful teacher's gifts, as well.

We found that hot glue works best since it hardens quick and gives the sticks a very sturdy hold, but we don't recommend using hot glue with small children unless there is adult supervision and an adult using the glue gun in most cases. Regular school glue will work just fine, but the box will need to sit longer for the glue to dry, as well as to be ready to paint.

Here's what you'll need:

• Popsicle sticks (you can use either wooden sticks or foam sticks)
• glue (if using a hot glue gun, please have adult supervision)
• paint
• glitter or pom-poms

The foam popsicle sticks make a slightly flexible box and aren't meant for heavy items.

As always, please have adult supervision when creating with our instructions and video tutorials. Most importantly, have fun and let your imagination soar!

We'd love to hear your comments!

Make your own foam alien masks

Creative Girly has really gotten the most out of that pack of foam sheets we got at the dollar store. She still has some left, but we'll wait a while to show you some more foam crafts. She has some other fun things up her sleeve that she wants to show you this week, but for now, we want to show you how to make your very own alien masks.

This is what you'll need:

• foam sheets
• scissors
• string or ribbon
• markers or crayons
• glitter

Now, let your imagination run wild! Aliens can be anything you make up in your mind! Get creative. Think outside of the box. Get crazy with your ideas!

As always, please have adult supervision when creating with our instructions and video tutorials. Most importantly, have fun and let your imagination soar!

Make your own foam animal masks!

Here's another great foam craft brought to you by none other than the Amazing Creative Girly!

Using that same pack  of foam sheets (which we got at the dollar store....$1 goes a LONG way!), Girly shows you how to create your very own foam animals masks.

This is what you'll need:

• foam sheets
• scissors
• string or ribbon
• markers or crayons
• tape
• paper (construction paper or computer paper, whichever you prefer)

Now, just pick an animal, put on your thinking cap and let your imagination run wild!

As always, please have adult supervision when creating with our instructions and video tutorials. Most importantly, have fun and let your imagination soar!

Make your own sparkly foam snowflakes

With winter fast approaching in Vermont (or so it feels like in the middle of September), we start thinking the coming snow. We all have a love of snowflakes here. Girly and Zach spend countless amounts of time cutting homemade snowflakes during the colder months. There's always happy scraps of paper lying around the craft room from their creations.

Girly recently got some sheets of craft foam and she started to experiment with them and made her own snowflakes with them. In this video, she shows how to create one-of-a-kind snowflakes using:

• foam sheets
• scissors
• glue
• glitter
• markers

The possibilities are endless and you'll never end up with two alike! You can add some string, twine or ribbon to your snowflakes to hang them around the house.

As always, please have adult supervision when creating with our instructions and video tutorials. Most importantly, have fun and let your imagination soar!