How to Make Easy Camp Crafts
When children attend a summer camp, they will typically take part in a campfire cookout, sleep in tents, go on hikes through the woods and create nature-based crafts. Since camp crafts are a supplemental part of a camping experience, even the youngest campers should be easily able to accomplish them. You should be able to create the crafts out of simple, basic craft materials. To make easy camp crafts, it is important to follow a few guidelines.
Things You'll Need
- Empty coffee can
- Construction paper
- Wax paper
- Yarn
- Tempera paint
- Paintbrush
- Clear contact paper
- Flowers
- Heavy book
- Leaves
- Twig
- Glass bead
- Craft glue
Instructions
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Make a coffee can drum. Cover the outside of an empty coffee can with craft glue. Wrap construction paper of any color around the coffee can. Allow the glue to dry. Paint patterns and shapes on the outside of the coffee can with tempera paint, and allow it to dry. Remove the lid from the coffee can. Place a sheet of wax paper over the top of the coffee can and attach it there with yarn. Stretch the wax paper so that it remains taut. When you tap onto the wax paper, it will sound like a Native American drum.
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Make flowered place mats. Collect wild flowers while taking a nature hike. Place the flowers into a heavy hardback book and leave them there for one week. Remove the flowers from the book. They should be dried. Cut a sheet of clear contact paper to measure 12-inches high by 18-inches wide. Lay the contact paper onto a tabletop with the sticky side facing up. Place the dried flowers onto the sticky contact paper. Cut another piece of contact paper to measure 12-inches high by 18-inches wide. Place it onto the flower-covered contact paper, lining up the sides carefully. Trim the edges.
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Make a nature fairy. Collect leaves and twigs on a nature walk. Glue the leaves onto a twig to resemble the wings and the dress of a nature fairy. Every fairy will be unique and each one will look different. Glue a glass bead to the top of the twig, which will be the head of the nature fairy. Allow the glue to dry completely before playing with the nature fairy.
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References
- Photo Credit Wooden Beads image by Stephanie Mueller from Fotolia.com
