The Glue Gun Diaries: 2013

My daughter started pre-primary Montessori this past fall, LOVES it! She has made some great friends at school; her teacher refers to them as their "school family". How wonderful is that?!

The invitations to birthday celebrations have started rolling in, she will be partying like a 4 year-old twice this weekend.

Sugar rushes be damned, she is going to celebrate!

While my little peanut may know these children as her school family, I just know them by which mom picks them up. I know little about these children. So, I put my little brain to work and created these Personalized Art Kits! Cute, gender-neutral, and age appropriate. Heck, I am in my 30's and would love one (Oh, I know what someone is getting for Christmas *squeal*)

Art Kit Supplies:

Sterilite Large Clip Box in Green (Target) or other box with dimensions: 3.25 " H x 11.0 " W

Colored Pencils

Washable Markers

Stickers

Assorted Construction Paper

Pad of White Drawing Paper

Masterpiece Clips

The great thing about theses kits is that you really could put whatever art supplies you want in them. In the future,I would not use character stickers, I was shopping in a limited selection.

I should have gone to the craft section and grabbed some googly eye stickers.

Those are super fun to put on a piece of paper and create a monster/person around the eyes.

Big hit at our house!

I swear this isn't an ad for any specific brand of art supplies, this is just what they happen to have at the store. They are good quality. I bought a large pack of construction paper and gave each kit 5 pieces of each color, nice variety. Not much more explanation here, I just loaded them up.

Now on to make it yours (or theirs)!

I use craft paper often in my business, so I had large sheets of card stock craft paper.

I trimmed mine down to fit into the printer, 8.5 *11. Buying it that size would be a wise choice.

I wanted the names to be the color of the card stock, so when I made the graphic, I used white as the color for the nanme, there is no white ink so it just doesn't print that part, leaving the color of the paper to show through. Make sense?

So, grab one of these little cuties, open it in whatever software you desire

(word, publisher, Photoshop) and pop a name in there.

I needed to trim mine down a little as there are some irritating little bumps on the lid.

A little tape and

TA*DA!

ART KIT SUCCESS!