Come join us at Craft Club as we introduce a variety of creative experiences to help students learn new skills or improve on their talents. We meet after school, when there is more time to focus, create and socialize. We will have different themes throughout our projects and we will create as many projects as we have time for. Students vote on ideas shown to them that they would like to pursue. Our projects include:
sewing
baking
decorating
small holiday themed items
some unique crafts
Craft Club typically starts meeting in the fall. In the 2009 - 2010 school year, Craft Club meets on Tuesdays after school until 3:20 in the Sewing and Foods rooms. The district fee (2009 - 2010) is $25.00 and the supply fee is $25.00.
If you have questions, contact Julie Stumpf - Craft Club Sponsor
Come and share your crafts and ideas and meet new friends!
Fun Recipes/Crafts:
Double Dose Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are great! Everybody will love them!
Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup cocoa powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In large bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into the butter mixture until well blended. Mix in the chocolate chips and walnuts. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or just until set. Cool slightly on the cookie sheets before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
Tie- Dye Book Cover
First you will need to make the shell of the book cover. Afterward, you will remove the book cover and decoupage it. Begin by cutting the brown paper bag open: Using scissors, cut from the top of the bag to the bottom at one of the corner creases.
Cut the bottom off the bag completely. You should have a long rectangle when finished. (See image.)
Lay your text book in the center of the rectangle. (See image.) Fold the top and bottom of the rectangle up so that the height of the rectangle is equal to the height of the text book. Crease the folds by pressing with your fingers.
Bring the left side of the paper cover over the book and line up the ends with the right side of the paper cover.
Open the book and fold the left side of the paper around the cover of the book. (See image.) Repeat this on the other side of the book as well.
Open the cover of the book. You need to trim the paper to about half the width of the actual book’s cover. Use a pencil to mark the paper inside the cover where you will trim it. Repeat this on the other side of the book as well. Remove the cover from the book and trim off the excess paper with scissors.
Carefully slide the front and back cover of the text book into the temporary paper cover to make sure it fits. (See image.) Adjust the height accordingly if the cover feels too snug or too loose. When you are happy, remove the cover and set the textbook aside.
Line work surface with wax paper.
Mix together 2/3 glue and 1/3 water in a bowl with your paintbrush. Use a soup or cereal sized bowl filled about halfway. Make more if you run low.
Cut fabric into pieces, any size is fine. Approximately 2” x 2” is a nice workable size.
Open paper book cover and place the "good" side face up onto the wax paper.
Begin by painting a 2” section in a top corner of the paper with the glue mixture. Place a piece of fabric on to the glue mixture. Add more glue mixture to your paintbrush and paint over the top of the fabric scrap, smoothing with your paintbrush as you go. Scrap should be saturated and plat but not dripping. Repeat this process, covering the paper completely, overlapping fabric pieces as you go. (See image.)
When paper is covered with fabric, open the book cover up and carefully place the textbook back inside it as you did before you applied the fabric.
Carefully close the book; place a piece of wax paper in between the front cover and the front page and the back cover and the back page. (See image.) This will keep the wet decoupage cover from sticking to the actual textbook as it dries.
Allow to dry overnight then remove the wax paper from the book.
| Name | Description |
| Crayola Crafts | This site belongs to the crayon company, Crayola. Lots and lots of fun different crafts to do! |
| The Knitting Site | This site is obviously for knitting. It has instructional videos, patterns, and many different projects! |
| Crochet Pattern Central | This site teaches you how to crochet (kroh-shey)! It has many interesting patterns for you to follow. |
| Kaboose Crafts | This site has crafts from making clay pots to tie-dye book covers! Check it out! |
| Homespun Heaven | This site has every single thing to make for your house to think of. Some of the crafts may be more difficult, but some are very simple! |
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