When our house emptied & we had a moment to ourselves (it was a late hour), I sat down with the girls & we attempted to make paper jewelry from a kit ($1!!) I bought at JoAnne's earlier this week. But golly. I'm not so good at directions all the time.
"Fit slot A backwards into the reverse side of slot B while on the left side you transfer the opposite image upside down, turning it all the while in a counter-clockwise rotation."
That's not what the directions said. I made that up. But the instructions sounded just as dumb as that did.
Strips of paper were pre-scored, so we simply had to tear along the "dotted" lines. A bit of folding here. A tiny touch of paper manipulation there. Add a whole lot of confusion & frustration....& you've got a cute little paper crafted handmade bracelet!
Basically it's the same idea as THIS. We just used longer strips of paper.
I am definitely going to reassess the paper situation in the morning & give it another go. When we're less tired. And have more time for fun.
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Cool! I remember making a super long necklace using this technique out of yellow juicy fruit paper wrappers. I chewed a lot of gum in sixth grade, and a stick of juicy fruit only lasts about 15 minutes.
ReplyDeleteToo funny! It's nice to know someone shares my frustration with ridiculous directions!! I don't have kids yet, but do have nieces and nephews. I'm getting tons of fun activity ideas from your blog! Thanks and have a great weekend!!
ReplyDeletevery cute
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