Wooden Beaded Necklaces

Over Christmas I scored the crafting jackpot at the Goodwill outlet, and bought a HUGE box of wooden beads, spools and balls for 50 cents a pound.
I finally got around to doing something with them- painted beads for necklaces. We painted a lot of beads, enough  for Sophia’s teachers (first grade, and her specials teachers) and the other Mom teachers in our preschool co-op. Plus some for the other special ladies in our lives….act excited if you get one as  gift, k?
We’ll also be doing thank you cards, but that will be another post for another day.

I spent one naptime and after bedtime listening to After the Jump radio show and painting beads. After the second coat, on day 2 I arranged them on dowel rods and a box to spray paint with clear varnish in the garage.



Then today Sophia picked beads for necklaces. I used leather cording from Hobby Lobby.  My personal faves  of the necklaces have only 3 or 4 beads to match an outfit. It’s super easy to switch them out if you make them for yourself. 

For preschool next week the kids are going to pick out beads and assemble necklaces for their Mama teacher. I considered having them paint the beads…but I wanted it to be something the Mom could wear (outside the house!).


Hooray for teachers, crafts and pretty beads.


 

Mini Scriptures and Treasure Chest

Tomorrow’s lesson for sunday is titled “Jesus Christ’s Teachings are a Treasure” or something to that effect. It’s all about treasuring the scriptures and a mini review lesson of stories from the past 5 months.

I decided to go literal.

In keeping with the theme I found a treasure chest paper craft from a Friend lesson.



I could print out jewels with scriptures on them, but why not put mini books of scriptures inside?



I could put blank pages inside, and have them write or draw a scripture, or I could peruse the pictures catalog and put in mini pictures. The gray borders are the cut out lines, the middle line is a fold line. Each strip is folded and glued to make a double sided page, then layer the 2 pages into the book of scripture and staple.


Assembled books, with staple in the middle.



Compared to my hand. Sorry for the nasty yellow pictures. It’s late, all my lights are not natural, and we’ll just pretend they’re trendy and taken with instagram!





Finished in treasure box. This was the small one- I sized it up the box pic  a few inches in publisher so it filled up the page. I suggest you do the same.

Hooray for the scriptures!