Tin foil jewelry

Here’s a craft project for the big kids – creating shiny, embossed foil pendants with a few simple materials. Making these requires a gentle touch, but they are simple and addicting to make. My girls and I made piles of them! Materials: craft foam sheets aluminum foil clear tape dull pencil or medium ball point … Continued

A few weeks ago I shared a cool technique that my boys and I used to create 3D Sharpie artwork. We enjoyed the project so much that I thought we could use a similar process to create Sharpie tinfoil pendants. These pendants can be used as necklace charms, keychains or backpack clips. To make a Sharpie tinfoil pendant: 1) Cut a small (1 ½ inch) circle from an old cereal box. 2) Cut a slightly bigger circle from tin foil. 3) Draw a simple design on the cardboard, cover the outline of the…

Recycled Craft – Mexican Tin Heart Folk Art

little tin decorations — clare youngs

Sarah at Plainsong, came up with a great idea to make it easier for moms to include an art/craft activity in the weekly lesson plans. Each week different 4 Real homeschoolers will be posting the i…

Color aluminum foil in a few easy steps. Once dry, it can be used for making colorful metallic collages, mosaics, and other craft projects.

In this post, I'll show you how to use aluminum cans to make jewelry. I'll go over how to break the cans apart in order to have metal sheets to work with.