Silly Crafts - Craft Making is a Special Bonding Experience For Families

Making silly crafts is a fun way for families to spend time together. Craft time is always a special bonding time for families, and making things silly livens this time up even more!

Wiggle Sunglasses
You'll need a cheap pair of sunglasses (plastic and colorful are best, try the local dollar store), wiggly eyes (of assorted sizes, they come in different colors also), and glue. Simply glue the wiggly eyes on the frame of the glasses. Let dry. All eyes will definitely be on you when you wear these glasses!

Slime
For this project you'll need water, food coloring and cornstarch. Mix 1 cup of the cornstarch with 1 cup of the water. Kneed with your hands until smooth. Make it a little less slimy by adding a second cup of cornstarch. Either break down the batch to smaller batches and create a whole rainbow of slime, or use the one batch for one color using the food coloring. This, the stickiest and slimiest of all silly crafts, will have your kids using their best (read: grossest) creativity imaginable!

Putty
Who doesn't love silly putty? A mainstay of every child's toy box, silly putty can be made at home and also stored in a colorful egg. You'll need 2 cups of glue, 1 cup starch, optional food coloring (you don't have to color your silly putty), and colorful plastic eggs. Pour the glue and add food coloring (if desired), mix the starch in with your hands slowly. Using your hands, continue mixing for 15 minutes. Store in an airtight container, or a plastic egg!

Hats
You can pretty much make hats out of anything - a perfect base for a silly crafts project. Gather all of the objects you can think of that might make a silly hat like paper plates, construction paper, aluminum foil, baskets, fabric with buttons, bowls and let the kids have at it! For the objects they can decorate, offer markers, crayon and even paint.

Silly Pens
The items you'll need for this project are a ballpoint pen, chenille (wire-free), tacky glue, 10mm wiggle eyes, and turkey feathers. Drop a thin line of glue near the pen's tip, then attach the chenille, wrap the glue around the pen and spiral the chenille up around over it, all the way to the top of the pen. Snip off excess at the top, then secure the remainder to the top of the pen with glue. Glue the wiggle eyes to one side of the pen, then the turkey feathers to the other. This is one of the silly crafts projects that is perfect for kids or teens!

Reindeer Head
This project is perfect for babies and preschoolers. Any time children get to take off their shoes they are in heaven! Items needed are red and brown construction paper, scissors, a pencil, glue, and either crayons or makers. Trace the child's hands and one foot over the brown construction paper, then cut out. Glue to another sheet of paper by placing the foot cutout as the head of the reindeer, and the hand cutouts as the antlers. Let the child decorate with crayons and markers!