A fun technique to add to your New Year’s celebration!

Materials

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

  • Paint (we went with metallics)
  • Craft toothbrush (one that you won’t use for your teeth!)
  • Cardstock (We re-used some old black cards)
  • Letter stickers
  • Beads
  • Twine
  • Metal circles (ours I believe were a donation leftover from a wedding, but you could use washers, binder rings etc.)
  • Tag punch/ hole punch OR ruler/ scissors/ pencil & hole punch
  • Craft tray
  • Smock
  • Small cardboard box
  • Shallow tray
  • Tweezers

Directions

  • Don your smock.
  • Put your paint or paints into a shallow container.
  • Put your letter stickers onto your cardstock to make your guest’s initial or initials.  Do several to a page.

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

  • Put your cardstock into your small cardboard box (We saw this tip on The Crafty Crow http://www.thecraftycrow.net/ for a different splatter technique and thought is was a great idea to contain the paint!)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

  • Dip your toothbrush into your paint.  Angle your brush downward and with your thumb, pull back on the bristles, creating a splatter.  Repeat with another colour and do all of your pages.  Carefully peel off your letter stickers.  You don’t want to leave them on for a long period of time as they might remove a bit of your paper.

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

  • Allow them to dry overnight in your craft tray(s).
  • Punch out your tags, using a tag punch or create rectangular shapes with a ruler, pencil and scissors, cutting around your initials.

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

  • We made a loops around our rings (as shown) with twine or cord and added beads and the letter tags, tying them together around a napkin.  Enjoy!

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

New Year's Letter Napkin Ties from make-it-your-own.com (Art, crafts and activities for kids)

  • Once you are done, be sure to put them away in a safe space for next year’s celebration!

Purpose

  • Re-imagining items
  • Experimenting with different painting techniques
  • Recognizing letters

Safety Notes

  • Beads, rings etc. can be a choking hazard.  Please keep them out of reach from children 0-3 years of age or those that tend to put things in their mouths.
  • Exercise care with scissors. Use with adult supervision.
  • String, cord etc. can be a strangulation hazard, thus they are not meant for play and should be used with supervision.
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