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Bug Collage

This fun bug collage was a project at the Miller library branch recently, where kids created their own designs from a variety of materials. The theme for the summer reading club this year is Catch the Reading Bug. Find out more at hclibrary.org.

Materials

Any arts and crafts materials can be used to make your collage unique! Try using recycled items.

• Large piece of cardboard
  
• Magazines, colored paper, wallpaper scraps and other spare papers
  
• Stencils
  
• Stamps and ink
  
• Yarn
  
• Fabric scraps
  
• Feathers
• Pipe cleaners
  
• Stickers
  
• Foam cut-outs
  
• Markers, crayons and colored pencils

Instructions

1. Use the large piece of cardboard as your base. Affix a sheet of green (grass) or blue (sky) paper to your cardboard for a background.
2. Create a nature scene complete with bugs using all of the materials you have available. Be creative, and make it 3D!

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Dream Catcher

Dream catchers are webs that confuse bad dreams and catch them before they enter your room. Display your dream catcher so you can prevent bad dreams!

Materials

• 5 inch ring
  
• 4 yards suede lacing
  
• 3 yards of nylon string
  
• Pony beads
  
• Feathers

Instructions

1. Cut 8 feet of the suede lacing. Glue one end of the lacing to the ring. Wrap the suede lacing around the ring until you reach the starting point again. Glue the end of the lacing to the ring. Hold it in place until the glue dries (Figure 1).
2. To make the web, tie one end of the nylon string to the ring (Figure 2). Make nine knots around the ring spacing them apart (Figure 3). Keep the thread pulled tight between the knots.
3. Begin the next row of the web in the middle of the thread that you have already woven on row 1. (Figure 4). Continue weaving in the same way until you have a small hole left in the center. Tie a double knot in the cord, add a tiny drop of glue to the knot, and cut off remaining thread when dry. (Figures 5 & 6).
4. To make the loop to hang your dream catcher, use a 12 inch piece of suede lacing. Fold it in half and tie a knot in the open end. At the top of the ring, attach the lacing by slipping the loop end through the ring and then around the ring and over the knot. Pull the lacing tight to secure it in place.
5. To make the hanging sections, cut three 8-inch pieces of suede. Tie two 8-inch pieces of suede lacing about one third of the way up each side of the ring using a double knot. Slip three colored pony beads onto each piece of lacing, and secure with a knot.
6. Push feathers inside the beads on each piece of lacing.

Used with permission from CraftBits.com.

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