The girls loved this craft because it is fun and easy. The last time they did it they were occupied for hours and they managed to make several really cute decorative gift bags.  The neat part about using wallpaper is the different designs are beautiful themselves you really don’t need to add much to the gift bags (you can see the butterfly got it an antenna and the star got a face but otherwise just plain they look pretty).  This kid craft helps with stimulating creative juices from picking out the color and pattern of wallpaper to cutting, gluing, and putting their pieces on their special bag.  The bags above are a few of the ones the girls did recently.  I am thinking about having them do a few more for the Christmas Season.

What you Need:

• Wallpaper Samples or craft paper
• Cookie Cutters
• Pencils
• Scissors
• Glue
• Paper Bags

We got these papers from wallpaper sample books that we’ve had for several years (they have been loved as you can see).  We were able to get them when the store was throwing them out.  You can go to Home Depot, Walmart, Lowe’s, any Fabric Store and ask if you can have their old wallpaper sample books.  Most of them would rather give them to you then throw them away or recycle them.  The wallpaper pages make great craft paper!

I got out a variety of cookie cutters and put them in a sheet cake pan so they were spread out a little more.  The girls had fun digging through the cookie cutters to find one to use for their gift bags.

Brina would trace her cookie cutter, cut out the design, then lay out the items on the table before gluing them to her decorative gift bag.

Karlie is busy watching what Brina was doing while showing me her butterfly.  I let the girls do whatever they wanted to do and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at how well the bags turned out especially for 6 year olds putting them together.  More importantly they had a blast doing the craft together.  They were excited to put goodies in their decorative gift bags and share them with others.