Washcloth Crafts, Try something new with Washcloth Projects!

Washcloth Owl

Washcloth Santa

TerryGami, 15 Cloth Toy and Ornament Projects for Crafters, Teachers, and Children

Washcloth Easter Eggs

 

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Welcome to washcloth crafts!

With all of the creative people out there, many crafters will be experimenting with the faces on the TerryGami critters.  Please do! Mix and match the projects within the book to suit your own creative sensibilities.

For example, at the time it didn’t occur to me to put eye glasses on the Graduation Owl, but if you have bead wire, try to use the Santa’s spectacles in the book on the owl.  Improvise a bit and make the nose bridge and the rims of the glasses a little wider. Use a fat sharpie to increase the size of the spectacle’s rims, if need be. Also, the Santa can be made with other color cloths, to match your decor.

Also, the owl, with a few modifications, can be a favorite young wizard’s snowy owl. This may be a fun activity for a Halloween or birthday party.  Just use a black fabric marker to make the black markings on the owl.  Make the body of the owl in advance, and then let the kids put on the facial features and the markings.  Fortunately, there are packages of white cloths available now, 18 to a package. Stock up on white now for the snowmen, angels and the Santa, too.

The apple and the pumpkin can be interchanged, too, with a little modification.  For example, make the apple with an orange cloth and you will have a smoother face for a Jack ‘O Lantern.  Use brown yarn to cover the stem, instead of jute or rope or cover the stem with a corner from a brown washcloth, as in the apple instructions.

Think outside of the box; kids do!  I haven't experimented with it yet, but the Easter Egg could be a football, if made with a brown washcloth with white felt and yarn sewn or glued on to make the threads and markings.  Wide-eyed needles can easily be threaded with yarn.  To hide the knot in the yarn, gently pull the knot through the material, and then leave the knot on the inside of the football. Make each end of the egg as pointed as possible. Making the Easter Egg into a football didn’t occur to me until the children who were helping to vet the instructions started to throw the egg around like a football!  Well, of course they would think of that; they're kids!

Happy Crafting!

~Terry