Plastic Canvas Craft IdeasMany beautiful things can be made with this plastic canvas craft. Let us show you the technique to make a cute canvas creature and then you can use your imagination to create all kinds of new and wonderful things with a sheet of plastic canvas! Supplies That You Will Need:
To start your animal, you will need to cut out 3 squares of any size of plastic canvas. Next, pick 1 color of yarn. Pick the color of the animal that you are going to make. For instance, if you are doing a duck, choose yellow yarn. Now cut a long piece of yarn (Note: the larger you cut your square for the base of your animal, the more yarn you will need) Pull off a small strip of tape, and fold it around the end of the yarn. String the yarn through the needle. (The tape is optional, it just makes it easier to get your string through the needle) Pull the needle down on the yarn so that there is about 2-3 inches of yarn hanging on the other side of the needle. Now you're ready to start stringing! Find one corner on your plastic canvas square. Push the needle up through that corner hole. (When you do this you'll have two strings of yarn coming through. One of them will be your long one, while the other will be the 2-3 inch one. Hold the end of the short 2-3 inch string with a finger. Pull the long one all the way through. You're going to continue this pattern all the way through for each of the squares.)  On the first corner hole will you go up through it once, then down through the hole next to it. Do this two more times so that your corner is secure. For the rest of this plastic canvas craft, you are going to string diagonally. So instead of doing two holes at a time, you'll be taking your string all the way across diagonally so that you have a straight line. For each row that you do, go up through the first hole all the way on the edge, pull the string over (still on top), and go down through the last hole on the opposite side, straight across from the hole you went up through. Continue this pattern until you reach the end. On this last hole on the end, do the same thing that you did with the first hole and go through it 3 times. Now cut off the excess yarn. Do this for all three of your cut out plastic canvas squares. After all three of them are done, you're going to connect them. Notice around the edges there is no yarn? No worries, we're going to take care of that now. Take two of your squares and line up the edges so that they are even. Start at the corner, and as usual, string it through three times so that it's secure. String through both edges all the way down until you reach the end. Follow these same instructions for connecting all the sides. Just be sure not to connect two sides. (This is going to be the opening mouth.) Since they're not connected and have empty canvas showing, then you're still going to wrap the edges just like you did when you connected the sides together, only instead of attaching two sides, you're just covering up the edges of one.  Finally, you get to decorate it! Glue on eyes and any other features you'd like. We added a tag onto our animals that said, "Squeeze my cheeks and I'll give you a KISS!" and we put a Hershey's kiss candy inside its mouth. These fun little creatures make great gifts and are sure to put a smile on someone's face!  More Plastic Canvas Crafts Plastic canvas can be cut into whatever shape or size you would like. Kids of all ages love to make all kinds of things with the above technique. You can buy books that have patterns that can be traced onto plastic canvas. Take a look at some plastic canvas crafts that were done by our boutique ladies recently! Return From Plastic Canvas Craft To The Home Page
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