{Summer Fun Camp: Felt Bracelets}

Hey, y'all!  Welcome to day day two of Summer Fun Camp!

I hope that you're enjoying camp so far and that you aren't getting too homesick.  Just kidding.  ;)  Today, I have a very fun craft to share with all you campers.

To make these felt bracelets, the main supply you need is felt sheets.

You will also need fabric glue (I used Fabri-Tac.), velcro strips, and scissors.  The first step to making your bracelet is cutting a felt strip.  

To determine the length of your felt strip, measure your wrist and add two inches to the measurement.  For example, my wrist measures six inches, so I cut an eight inch long strip of felt.  The width of my strip was two inches, but if you're a tiny camper, you may want to make your strip and bit narrower.  Then it's time for the fun part of the craft: creating embellishments for your bracelet.

I cut two thin strips of gray felt to go on the edges of my bracelet, and I also cut a flower shape out of blue felt and center for the flower out of yellow felt.  When you finish cutting your embellishments, glue them to the strip using fabric glue.  All that's left then is cutting and attaching the velcro.

If your velcro comes in two long strips like mine, attach the two strips and cut a piece the size of the space between your two small strips of felt.

Separate the velcro pieces and use the fabric glue to glue a velcro piece to each end of the bracelet on opposite sides.  To understand what I mean, look at the photo above.  There's one piece of velcro on the decorative side of the bracelet and one on the non-decorative side of the bracelet.  When your glue is dry, your bracelet is finished.  :)

I made two bracelets.  The zebra one is cute and girly.

The lightning bolt one is something I think a super hero would appreciate.

The bracelets are only limited by your imagination, though.  :)  

And now on to the day's activity!

At camp, you tell stories around the camp fire, right?  Well, this activity involves that.  When I was younger, I loved fill-in-the-blank stories.  Mad Libs.  You know the ones I'm talking about--a person asks you to list a place, thing, animal, etc, to fill in the blanks of a story before reading you the story, of course.  Then you read the story.  I always thought the stories that resulted from this little activity were hilarious.  (I did turn out to be an English teacher and lover of words, though, but hopefully I'm not the only person who enjoys this activity.)

Here's a fill-in-the-blank story I created for you campers to have fun with.  To play along, have someone give an answer for all the items in red and fill in his or her answers in the story.  Then read the completed  story aloud and giggle at how silly or nonsensical it turns out.  Once you get the hang of it, you can create your own fill-in-the-blank stories to have fun with.  You can download the above file {HERE} so that you can easily print it out. 

And before you get busy crafting and giggling at your silly story, you must enter the giveaway for this great Craft Prize Pack from Craft Project Ideas!

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Have fun crafting, campers!  And don't forget to visit Craftiments tomorrow for day three or Summer Fun Camp!  :)