How to Create Your Own Reusable Sticker Page or Album in 10 Seconds

Have you ever gotten a sheet of stickers at a birthday party or in a card? If your kids are like mine they peel them all off at once and proceed to decorate their hands, clothes shoes and any furniture nearby. Then they try peeling them off. And sticking them back on. After a few repetitions, the kids are understandably upset because the stickers won't stick anymore and have started to tear. Well, now you can turn a sheet of stickers into hours of fun in about 10 seconds.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A Sharpee or other permanent pen. Any color will do. You do need the fat Sharpees, not the pencil-thin ones.
• Waxed Paper

1. Pull off a sheet of waxed paper. Be fairly generous.

2. Lay your waxed paper on a hard surface (above the kids if you have toddlers) and uncap the sharpee.

3. Take your Sharpee and draw a playground on the waxed paper for your kids sticker critters to play. The easiest is some connected curved lines for hills and wiggly lines for waves. Stick trees might be fun too. A simple square for a house. Or you can go doll house style and divide a square in four or six with some rough furniture. You don't want a ton of detail because there will be no place for the stickers to play, so don't worry about drawing ability. The most basic designs will actually take 10 seconds. Maybe 2-3 minutes if you want to get really into it.

4. Go ahead and make dinner. Or have a latte and watch some TV. The kids will be busy for awhile.

Tips & Warnings

• If you scream and protest you CAN'T draw that it's no use trying, grab a coloring book your kids like. Waxed paper is translucent so you lay it on top of a coloring book page and trace right over it with your sharpee. Only the background, mind! To make a sticker book, take the individual sheets of waxed paper with separate drawings and staple them together.

[amylaine]

on 4/20/2008 Great ideas.

[grouch]

on 3/30/2008 I love it.....more free time for me and they are not fighting....great ideas.

[WriterGig]

on 2/16/2008 Great ideas! I will be trying this next time; thanks.