X-TREMEly Fancy Flip Flops {Kids Craft}

Summer is just around the corner and sandal/flip flop season is on full blast!  I thought it would be a fun project for me and Hanna to make some fancified flip flops together.  We headed off to Hobby Lobby to pick up some supplies for our craft.  Once we were back home we got our supplies layed out and ready to go.   Here’s what you’ll need to make your own:

Supplies

• one pair of flip flops

• Elmer’s X-TREME School Glue Stick 

• gems, flowers, ribbon, etc. – whatever you’d love to decorate your flip flops with

• something to protect your work surface – we used a paper bag

• a marker

•  UPDATE: I’m sad to say that after we used the X-TREME glue stick our gems ended up popping off of the flip flops.  So, I would recommend trying one of these instead:

1. Use flip flops with fabric straps or wrap them with ribbon first and then let your child glue the gems on using X-TREME.  X-TREME is made to stick to fabric!
2. Use flip flops with plastic straps but change the glue you are using to Elmer’s Plastic Cement.  However, I probably wouldn’t let your child use this on their own.

This project is insanely simple but, you can use this particular craft to talk with your child about patterns!  First things first, when you are involving children in your crafts be sure to protect your work space.  We used an opened up paper bag.  Then, dump the gems, or whatever else you’re decorating with, out onto the paper.

 

DisclosureThis project has been compensated as part of a craft recipe project using Elmer’s #collectivebias.  As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own.