This craft idea is sponsored by Cleverpatch
One art material my kids and I have been loving lately is liquid watercolours. The colours are amazingly bright and the consistency is just like painting with water. They are beautiful for use in process art and I have found that the artworks we’ve created with them have made a fantastic material to work into craft projects as well. Last year we used liquid watercolours to create some colourful bookmarks as gifts and we also used them for our arty advent calendar in the lead up to Christmas.
Today I’m sharing an easy braided paper bracelet that has been created with newspaper coloured with liquid watercolours. They look a little quirky but are lots of fun to make and my kids love them.
You will need
• Liquid Watercolours
• Newspaper
• Coloured yarn
• A sponge brush or alternatively a soft, big watercolour paintbrush
• Also recommended is a plastic table cover to protect the furniture
Colouring the newspaper
Making the bracelet
2) Tie at the top with yarn, wrapping the yarn around many times so that you get a nice fat band of colour
3) Braid the strands together and tie off at the other end when you think the length is about right for your wrist (or your child’s wrist)
4) Tie both ends together and wrap the yarn around and around both strands to form a circle that becomes your bracelet
5) To finish, trim the ends of the newspaper and gently stretch them apart to form a bow shape
More fun craft ideas that kids can wear
• Make a foil tiara and matching bangle for pretend play
• These paper scrap crowns turned out so well!
• Use shrinky plastic to create kid-made shrink art charms
• Use our printable template to create cool superhero masks
• Make a black cat costume from egg cartons
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Im always hearing about liquid watercolours and love how vivid the colours are but never knew where to get them! thanks heaps!!
These are so great and I love the colours.
These look great. I have been looking at purchasing these liquid watercolours for a while but was wondering how they would go.
These are cool!
We love liquid water colours, but I’ve never seen the sparkle ones!