Day 60: Little Girl Games with Big Girl Supplies

I have been thinking lately about child crafting that with high quality supplies are quite charming and appealing.  For example, I have seen beautiful origami crane earrings folded out of precious metal clay "paper" and then fired.  This "friendship bracelet" is great for any adult playing fancy dress-up when using beautiful fibers and colors.  Can you bloggers/readers/followers think of any more?  Post comments for brainstorm on this one!  I am sure you all have great ideas out there!

Okay, my mom turned me on to this idea (she did a class using these Japanese foam card things to make patterned weaves) and I then found a foam thingy in my daugher's friendship bracelet making kit.  Isn't this a great texture and variations are of course infinite.  I started this one AFTER the kids got in bed, and here I am blogging about it less than two hours later.  I spent my day resting, napping, and knitting, and then went "BAH, BLOG" and started a finish-able craft for this entry.  I used a link from the metal belt I broke apart.  I haven't figured out the closure yet for a necklace, but I will get there.  Probably sterling caps?  I like the highly finished look over the shappy-chic ribbon ended thing.  However, I just used some of the fiber that I have been adding to my pouches, and I am THRILLED with the end product!  I suspect, I will end up calling up my good friend Amy (I actually have TWO good friends both named Amy who both sell Silpada jewelery) and find a larger, heavy sterling pendant that I can use with a variety of these woven necklaces.  My mom is bringing up supplies on her spring break as well as she has made these covered with beads!  Oooh, ahhh!

Pretty pretty