I have been drooling over the anthropologie-style wall letters (like these at Tip Junkie) and Elmers & Xacto gave me the perfect opportunity to make my own set with an Elmer’s Summer Craft Party! They sent me a big box of goodies including foam boards, glue sticks, glue dots, markers and more! They also sent us these adorable burlap canvas bags – my inspiration for our project. The Quirky kids and I invited another family over for a total of seven kids to have a great crafting time.
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We love the finished product of our wall-art. Thank you Elmers ! And you, my beloved reader, have the chance to have your very own Elmer’s Craft Party too! Giveaway details below.
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We used Elmer’s Mini Bi-Fold Foam Boards. These boards are the perfect size. Each foam board makes 2 – 12″ tall, 9″ wide letters. I made our letters a bit more narrow as I wanted a “taller” look. Trace the font of your choice onto the boards and carefully cut out the letters with a razor blade (obviously, the kids did not “help” in this phase). 
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Can you imagine a glue stick that can glue burlap to paper? And be strong enough that kids can fuss with it? I was very impressed with the Elmer’s Craft Bond Glue sticks! They are powerful stuff! 
Add a dag of glue stick or one of the glue dots and wrap your letters in textiles. We cut tissue paper into strips, added scraps of yarn, glitter, and of course burlap strips from our Elmer’s gift bags – it’s brilliant orange fits the color scheme of our playroom perfectly!.
Half the fun was trying to figure out how to “wrap” the yarn and the scraps. One of the kids had more fun knotting the yarn – and another had fun gluing her fingers and feeling how they stuck together.
Personally, I loved (yes, pun intended) the finished product.
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Want to win some nifty Elmers supplies to have your own craft day?
Note: We have a winner!!!
My kids and some of their friends (Thanks, Laugh with us Blog) have voted! They want to make fairy houses! Jennifer Radtke is our winner! I will contact her shortly and arrange for Elmers to send her some supplies.………………….
Leave us a comment and tell us what you would make with
some of these Elmer craft supplies. Winner will not be chosen randomly. A kiddo will pick the craft they think is the most creative (or that they want to do next). Check out their site for lots of ideas! You may not be related to any of QM’s writers/editors or the child doing the “picking” to win (sorry, Mom). You must be a US resident to win.
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Thanks bunches Elmers for making our day and sponsoring QM – the kids, myself and our guests enjoyed the supplies and the gift card. You made our day!
I’m in Australia, so not eligible for the competition – but wanted to say how cute I thought the letters were! This would be great for kidlets learning their first letters – I know my girls would be highly motivated to make their own initials!
This project is so fun and creative! It’s great that at first thought you’re making a mess but apparently it comes out actually quirky and colorful.
Those letters are really beautiful!
Next month is my son’s 4th birthday. I’d love to use those supplies to make some dinosaur decorations. I could cut dinosaurs from the foam board. Then we could use fabric and tissue paper to cover them (similar to what you did, but without the string). I’d do several different colors (blue dinosaur, green, red, etc). I think I could also make a cool volcano with tissue paper and ribbon spouting from the top and flowing down the sides. Once his party is over, we could move the decorations to his room; multipurpose!
I’d also like to make a picture board for my daughter. I’d cover a foam board with fabric and criss-cross ribbon around it to hold pictures (the ribbons would appear diamond shaped from the front). I’d add a Panda bear to a lower corner for her too, she loves pandas! Then she could easily stick pictures in the diamonds without tacks or anything and I would have a bunch of tacked-up pictures on her wall.
I’m thinking these supplies would be good for making Christmas Decorations.
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Those are awesome! Hmmmm … where can we put some of those great letters? You’ve got me thinking. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the letters! We may have to make some.
If I win the prize I can only imagine the project my son would come up with. One that we’ve been wanting to do is make a “town” for his cars to drive through. Complete with stop signs, roads, buildings. This prize pack would be perfect to put this city together!
Rachel,
These are GORGEOUS!
🙁 Why do I have to live in Canada eh?! LOL
I LOVE THESE!! the letters are so great. And I love how all the kids came together to make some fun stuff.
I ask my 5yr old son what would he like to do with somthing like this and he said “We could make the airplanes for my wall MOM!! And we coould cut out stars and wrap them in your shiny fabric and put them all over the ceiling or paint them with glow paint. Then we could make some planets and decorate them in more fabric like blue and green for earth and red and brown for the Mars one then some how make rings around a big one!!!”. He is excited and his little mine is working so he ram off to draw is idea on paper, lol…. I would have to make some cupcakes wrapped in fun fabric for the shop, and try and see if this would be the perfect thing for some large fairy wings covered in lots of fabric scrapes for a custome I’m making.. :c) fingers crossed on that last one..
Thank you for the chance to win
I’ve been thinking about creative ways to “illustrate” our favorite story books. My plan was a basic popsicle stick theater with pictures we print and color. We could get much more interesting results with all that great texture. Thanks for getting my wheels freshly turning.