Decorative Pencils – Family Friendly Craft
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How to make decorative pencils. This is a great family friendly craft.
As most of you know, we LOVE crafting as a family.. even my husband joins in sometimes. We can spend an entire day just crafting and making a mess (a fun mess of course).
Crafting is fun, but even more fun when you can do it an entire day and not worry about supper. Lucky for me, I have a slow cooker and Club House Slow Cookers Seasoning Mixes that I can use to make meal time super easy.
Sunday morning when my daughters woke up, they asked if we could have a crafting day. We had spent Saturday running around, so I gladly said yes. I liked the idea of having a quiet day at home.
I took out my slow cooker, Club House Slow Cookers Seasoning Mix – Beef Dip, an onion and some beef. Placed them all in my slow cooker and voilà supper was prepared. EASY!
Look at this Family Friendly Craft we made:
Yes, we made super cute decorative pencils! Such an EASY craft and we had so much fun making them.
My daughters and I pulled out everything we might want to use to decorate the pencils and got crafting.
My husband even made some pencils too! He said it looked like fun and wanted to join in. The funny part is that the blinged out pencil is the one he made and also my daughters’ favorite pencil. Hehe
Decorative Pencils
Supplies:
- Wood pencils
- Washi tape
- Decorative thread
- Ribbon
- Bakers’ Twine
- Jewels
- Origami paper
- Craft glue
- Scissors
- Paint
- Glitter or glitter paint
- Paint brushes
- Hot glue gun
Instructions:
Step 1: Take out the pencils you want to decorate and just DECORATE and have fun!! Seriously, no instructions needed! Paint, stick and enjoy yourselves!
We made these pencils by wrapping various washi tapes around the pencils.
You can also wrap thin paper or origami paper around the pencil and use hot glue to adhere it.
We blinged out these pencils by sticking on jewels and decorative thread. We stuck everything on with hot glue.
The girls had sooooo much fun!!
Here we are with our decorative pencils!
I bet you’d like to see close-ups of our pencils,….
Didn’t they turn out great? I can’t get over how cute they are!
Gabrielle has already taken a couple of them to school, she’s excited to write with them.
If you want more decorative pencil inspiration, check out our gold pencils.
After our day of crafting, we were exhausted. I’m happy that I didn’t have to worry about dinner. YAY for slow cooker meals!
If you haven’t tried Club House Slow Cookers Seasoning Mixes, you should! They are super yummy and come in various seasoning mixes; Beef Dip, Chicken Stew, BBQ Pork, Beef Stew, Beef Stroganoff, Caribbean Style Pot Roast, Italian Herb Chicken, Pot Roast and Sweet and Sour Chicken
I haven’t tried them all, but the ones I have tried are delicious. I’m looking forward to trying the BBQ Pork!
Hope you’re having a fabulous day!
If you need family-friendly activity inspiration, be sure to visit “Fun Ways to Spend Time with Your Family” for entertaining things you and your family can do together.
What a fun craft! I love craft ideas that are fun, easy and also practical! Having a blinged out pencil might really encourage a reluctant writer to go a little further during writing time at school and at home!
Really cute!
These slow cooker spice mixes are really intriguing! I think you’ve convinced me to give them a try!
Great post!
Oh they are a real hit! Gabrielle has made more so that she can give some to her friends!
I will be making the BBQ Pork this weekend, can’t wait.. YUM!
Oh! I need some of these in my office! They look so fun.
The Club House seasonings really do make life easier so we can set time aside to do these things with our families :)
They are really great! I have a bunch in stock! hehe
What a fun craft! My daughter would love to do this…she’d spend all day creating! And don’t you just love putting together a crockpot in the morning and dinner is ready?! I want to try the Clubhouse Beef Dip mix – it sounds so good!
Your daughter will love this craft for sure! It’s so easy and fun!
Slow cooker meals are my fav!
Wow they would make a lovely gift
I’m planning on suggesting to Gabrielle that she makes some for her teachers at the end of the year. :)
Cutest pencils I’ve ever seen!!!
hehe Thanks Johanne!!
These are so flippin cute! I will have to do this for Little Man… More boyish of course lol or he will be upset with me! Baby Girl would also love these!
haha Yes, boy versions would be a huge hit with your little man. Bold colors with bright striped washi tapes would be great!
these are seriously cute! love that washi tape, I’ve never used it before
LOVE washi tapes! I started buying some a few years ago. I could only find it online back then…. but now you can find them in most craft stores!
What an awesome art project, love it! Especially as the art is something that anyone can use once the project is complete (love useful art, heh.)
And how amazing are slow cookers?? They make delicious meals so easy to put together without having to stand by the stove all night long! Club House slow cooker seasonings are amazing, so will have to try that Beef dip sometime this week, it sounds yummy. :)
So happy you like the pencils!! :)
Yes the Club House Slow Cookers Seasoning Mixes are fabulous!! I spent all day making Sébastien’s birthday cake yesterday (tons of different steps to put the cake together)… then I was sooooo tired when it was time to make supper (he offered to order Pizza). Of course I didn’t let him and made supper anyways…. but sure wish I would have put something in the slow cooker in the morning instead..
Look at how cute your gang is! And those pencils are fab! My girls would love to do something like this – great idea!
Thanks so much Tara :)
They surely look cute! The pencils and your kids!
Awwww thank you! How sweet!!
Super fun!!
Thanks Diana! They were very fun to make. :)
So pretty and clever!
Thanks Kim!!
What a cute idea. They came out super cute! I’m going to have to see if I can find “boy” designs to maybe convince the boys on trying this craft. If not then at least I have my niece. :)
Bold colored paints and bright washi tapes would be fabulous for boys! :)
Are there any leftovers for me? I just love those pencils! What a beautiful family
Leftovers of the Beef Dip or the pencils? haha :)
These look really fun to make. I guess you can not sharpen them after though? It is nice when you do not need to worry about dinner. Love my slowcooker
Actually you can! That’s what’s fun about them. You can peel off the washi tape and the jewels can be pulled back and cut off. The others are paint and paper so they can easily be sharpened as is. :)
What great ideas. sounds like way too much fun. I am pinning this.
Have a great weekend,
Bev
So happy you like the idea Bev!
Fun and so cute! Darling pics of the kiddos!
Awwww thanks Lori!!
These are adorable! What a fun project idea. :)
Too cute! It reminds me of Clueless and those fluffy pens!
These are so fun! Going to forward this post to my niece!
What fun pencils!!!! I think I would not want to do any classwork with those – I’d want to look at them all day!!! So stinkin cute!!! :) Thanks so much for linking up to Sunday Best. XOXO
These are so much fun! I need to do better about easy crafts. I over complicate things and then I don’t enjoy them. These look perfect for that!
I would love to make these with my girls. Such a cute idea. Does the washi tape get stuck in the pencil sharpener? Found your blog through Bewitch me & Titi blog hop.
These are really fun and cute. Thanks!
Super adorable Christine!! Pinned!!
How fun Christine! I love quiet days at home too and my daughter would love to do something like this. Your family is adorable by the way :) Thanks for partying at The Makers!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these! Pinning!
Christine, these pencils are AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
So cute!
Thanks for linking to Create Link Inspire at The Crafty Blog Stalker. You have been featured and pinned! Thank you for sharing.
–Katie, TheCraftyBlogStalker.com
What a fun project to work on with everyone!
I featured your project here:
http://www.jaqsstudio.com/2014/03/made-by-me-117-linky-party-and-features.html
Thank you again for sharing and linking up!
-Q
These look like so much fun! {pinning}
Oh goodness, these are too cute! What a fun craft to do with the kiddos and a great way for them to show off their individual tastes!
These are so fun, Christine! I have a house full of boys, so they are gung ho crafting for maybe fifteen minutes tops lol. Thanks for sharing at our Get Your DIY on party! Hope you and your beautiful family have a blessed Easter. XO