CLUTTER BUG
I originally made this craft for National Clutter Week (if you can believe
it). Now, it seems a bit strange to celebrate such a thing, but I figure that
anything I can use to get Tasha to clean up her toys can't be all bad! So I've
invented the clutter bug craft. In our household, the kids were allowed to do the
craft AFTER cleaning up their clutter.
This craft is equally suitable for Earth Day as all sorts of odds and ends
will be used (or should I say REused).
Materials you will need are a printer, paper, scissors, glue and some
clutter to paste onto the bug.
ALTERNATIVES: Brenda (one of our viewers)
adds: My little ones (if you can call them little at 7 and 4 ) had finished all of
their chocolate Easter eggs that were wrapped in pretty metalic foil and as usual wanted
to keep the foil. We found a great use for it. We used your clutter bug and have made some
with lovely shiny bodies !! Very easy for even little ones as they can tear the foil into
small pieces without needing to use scissors. I cut the body out after they had glued all
the bits on so the pieces didn't have to fit the edges perfectly, and then glued the body
to a contrasting piece of coloured paper.
We had already used the clutter bug before. We collected loads of the wallpaper samples
that you can pick up from D-I-Y stores and made a patchwork/mosaic one. That also looks
great.
