Rancher's Kids Crafts

Please feel free to use these crafts at home or on your website.  They are crafts projects that I have designed for my children.  I would really appreciate a link back to my site from yours if you do choose to use them.  Thank you.

My First Quilt

Supplies: 1 large Poster Board 1 pkg. of colored construction paper 1 lg bottle white glue 1 1" foam paint brush per child 1 pr. of scissors per child. Pencils, erasers, round items, square items, rectangular items, odd shaped items, etc.  These are for tracing shapes.   NOTE:  Please be sure you use age appropriate scissors.  Rounded tip ones for the little ones under 8yrs. of age.

Directions: Have your child trace several shapes using different colors of construction paper.  Cut these shapes out with your child. Use a square piece of construction paper to plan your quilt block.  Take your foam paint brush and paint the back of your piece of construction paper and place it on the Poster board.  Starting in a corner, usually the upper left corner.  When the piece is on, continue putting the pieces on until that block is finished.  Then start a new block. When you have finished covering your whole Poster board with your quilt blocks.  You may want to cover the entire thing with watered down white glue or a crafting varnish of some sort to seal it all.  You can also frame this, put a co-ordinating border around it.  The possibilites are endless.

I found it to be a funner project by doing only one block at a time.  The kid's attention span wouldn't allow for more and pushing them would have ruined our fun.

This quilt is from Grandma George's Graphics.  Not one that we have done.  I don't have a scanner yet to show off our projects.

Please visit Grandma George's site, it is FANTASTIC!!! If you are looking for great country graphic this is the place for you.

I am extremely new at this web-site building stuff.  Please bear with me with spelling mistakes, disorganization.

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