If you were able to catch any of the great sales on glue, we recently did a glue themed art unit with some fun glue crafts.  (If you missed the sales, you can make your own glue by mixing flour and water.  Yep, that is it. Just add water to flour until you have a smooth paste.)

I am going to share some of the projects we did with glue, but I would like to encourage you to be creative and not feel like you must adhere to what we did.

that being said, some of the projects we did included:

Glue Animals

Materials

  • Glue
  • Wax Paper
  • Eye balls or other decorations

Directions

  1. Pour out glue to make shapes on wax paper
  2. Decorate animal/shapes.
  3. Once glue is dry, peel off (May take all day).

Instead of Glitter…

Explore different textures when gluing

Materials

  • Glue
  • Paper
  • Froot Loops
  • For other projects, they can explore with beans, rice, cereal, dry pasta noodles, etc.

Directions

  1. Optional: If using Froot Loops, pour into a bag and bang/smash cereal until it resembles glitter. (A favorite activity of ours!)
  2. Optional: If using rice, it can be colored by adding alcohol and food coloring.  Mix and spread to dry.)
  3. Make designs with the glue
  4. Sprinkle materials (smashed or whole cereal, beans, rice, etc.) all over paper
  5. Shake off excess and let dry.

3D Art

Great way to incorporate dimension into art.

Materials

  • Paper
  • Paper towels or other colored paper (such as tissue paper)
  • Glue

Directions

  1. Twist paper towels (this works well if you color with markers on the paper towels, then let the colors bleed by painting with water on top of the markers for a tie dye effect.) Then twist paper towels and manipulate into shapes
  2. Shred tissue paper into scraps and crumble up
  3. Glue it to the paper to create shapes

Salty Watercolors

Materials

  • Glue
  • Paper
  • Salt
  • Paint and paintbrushes

Directions

  1. Make designs with glue
  2. Sprinkle page with salt and shake off excess
  3. Paint and watch the colors spread!

Have fun with glue.

We would love to hear where your projects lead you….

And, what other projects do you use with glue?