If you painted the eye beads a coat of clear nail varnish, or similar, over the darker brown, then they would read as eyes because they would be shiny next to the matt of all the 'fur' beads. Hope that makes sense. They all look brilliant! x
The vinegar-y smell is really common in items that are shipped via cargo container, it's a preventative spray against both fungus and pests, while the items are sitting for months in a dark shipping container with no ventilation.
That's interesting... my daughter got a kinetic sand play bin, and the colorful sands smell fine but the naturally colored sand smells very strongly of vinegar. Maybe just that type was shipped via cargo ship??
@@CWorgen5732perhaps the process of coloring the other sands had anti fungal/mold properties and only the natural sand needed the vinegar smelling process?
I was the Handicraft Director at a summer camp. During one parents weekends, one of the Dad's was intently working on a pony bead bracelet. Turns out it was his anniversary. He forgot. So, to buy himself some time, he was making his wife a "diamond tennis bracelet" Inspired-I did get some upscale materials and made some kind of classy stuff... BTW: his wife thought the tennis bracelet was hilarious and far more appropriate for unwrapping in the middle of the woods than the fine jewelry gift that was "waiting at home" (his wife was pretty certain that it was still waiting at the jewelry store)
I was a child in the 80's. Safety pins with seed beads were very popular to trade and put on your shoe laces. Also knotted friendship bracelets made with embroidery floss.
I guess the wooden version of it could be a great coaster or something to put your hot pots/bowls/kettle on? I think we had something like that in the kitchen when I was little and it was adorable, maybe you'll find this idea fun too!
We had a square hot pad made this way, out of corks from wine bottles. but they had also woven the cotton threads through crosswise. it was stable enough to throw as a frisbee.
Paint by Number kits; Embroidery; Knitting; Crocheting; I made a stuffed clown doll using a pattern on the back of the fiberfill bag; woven potholders; pom pom poncho. Never did beads as a kid, but later in life I did a fair amount of bead work and wire jewelry crafting--all of my earrings I made myself, including the ear wires. I taught knitting and crochet as an older adult and crochet every day.
A big childhood craft for us was "window colour". At least that was its German name. So the plasticy transparent paints that you stick to the window afterwards. HUGE! Expescially with colouring in pages to paint over. Every season new window decor! Yeah! :D Also: potato stamps, salt dough shapes, marbling things like easter eggs with nail poish on top of warm water (does that have a name?), making paper lanterns with transparent paper. Those ironing beads and in my time (early 2000s): scooby doo bands. They smelled so much like cheap plastic.
Water marbling! It's also called hydro dipping. Haven't done it with easter eggs before, though it makes a lot of sense. I might have to try it one year instead of just dyeing them :)
Love Pottery for the People. I so want kiln. Although given after the newness wore off, I bet it would end up where I store my stash of beads (including pony beads, glass beads, and Parker beads), Latch hook supplies, and candlemaking supplies...etc. But I so want a kiln and clay.
those came out very cute, but I can't stop laughing at Matt at the end asking if you wanted anything from guitar center. I agree with him, your loss lol
Remember those lanyards made of flat plastic thread? I remember making so many of those in summer camp. Also latch hook, shrinky dinks, paper fashion dolls, a knitting machine that broke on the first use, basically any klutz craft kit I could get my hands on from the toy store. So many crafts that I want to revisit myself. Also my aunt brought to Thanksgiving this year a rag wreath she was making by just stabbing precut pieces of fabric into a straw wreath with a screwdriver. Looked very fun and cathartic.
Nostalgia Crafts. We did a lot of crafts: Perler Beads, tie dye, friendship bracelets, those plastic lanyards bracelets, and making play houses out of cardboard boxes (stuff my mother liked to do with us) but not really kits. I don't think art & craft kits were the same as they are now when I was a kid (early 80s), it was completely different when I was teen. The only kit I clearly remember is getting one of the loop potholder looms. We also got introduced to a lot of crafts in school and after school programs so we already knew we liked something before we got our own supplies. My mom did care for kits as much as letting us figure it out on our own.
Suggestion: use string if it's meant to move (earrings, etc.) or wire of it will be wiggled less (a still decoration on a wall, etc.) The ones I've made to wear with wire always break eventually. Glass seed beads get heavy after a while.
I’m 53, i remember my aunt visiting when I was a child, we made bead pet earrings. From beads she brought from Mexico when visiting my grandfather. One thing I remember is pulling the thread up around the previous row to hold rows together to avoid sagging. For many years after that was my aunts go to gift for me for Christmas and when she visited.
I was a child of the 60’s. I loved “sewing cards” like a dot-to-dot with yarn. I also loved weaving potholders on a loom and making mosaic pictures with braid you glued down following a design and filled the spaces with glitter or crushed rock, like aquarium gravel in colors. I always sewed from a very young age. I later learned knitting. When my daughter was young we did the bead pets. She was in 3rd grade when her oldest brother left for college. She hid bead animal in all his boxes!
One kit I remember (and I’m a lot older than you) was the dipped wire flowers. So, you make a petal shape out of wire, then you dip it into this viscus, brightly colored, petroleum-smelling liquid which made a thin film in the wire shape. You let it dry overnight and wire all the petals together to form a flower. The petals all dried semi-see-through… like glass. Very pretty! I’m not sure such a thing is around anymore…probably causes cancer.
Oh my god I did this!! And I had completely forgotten about it! I remember it looked so cool and felt really smooth once dry, but if you didn't do it just right you'd end up with holes... Okay, that's going on the list to look up!
I think I've seen that on Pinterest somewhere! No idea what the liquid was though, I think something I couldn't easily get (or it is something that doesn't have an easy to find equal here in the not-USA). Maybe I pinned it? Should I check?
Okay so I checked and the one I saved used 2 coats of wood glue (1 dipped, second painted on) and then painted them with nail polish. So that wouldn't be transparent (unless transparent nail polish? Or maybe watered down with acetone?) but they could still be very pretty.
A big 90's/aughties craft I remember loving was quilling and making things with mini terracotta pots and wood beds. I specifically remember doing a bunch of little penguins with the upside down pot for the body/belly
Salt dough or home made play dough to make Christmas ornaments. We made felt ones too. My mom also made macrame wall hangings with roving, huge beads, leather cord etc. She also made a great wall art piece out of those plastic rings that used to attach six packs of soda and spray paint.
The otters & puppy are adorable! I was a kid in the 70's, and remember doing paint-by-number kits, macrame bracelets, faux stained glass, spirograph, water color painting, coloring books, a little bit of sewing & a whole mess of stuff in Girl Scouts. Oh yes, also painting ceramics in 5th grade, and with my mom when she went to a weekly class.
A craft that I did when I was young and still do 30 years later is origami. It was great. You didn't need a lot of stuff, just paper, and could do so many things... I still have my first origami book and still cherish it ! ❤ Thank you for your videos. They're always interesting and fun. ☺️
@@mareene6803 Oh yes, origami ! I knew how to do a few basic things as a child but got more into it in my last year of high school because of a friend who would often do them in class. The teachers wouldn't mind because she was quiet and listening, and she would often let things she had done on the table, so they often picked them up to keep them 😁 Then there were both of us making fidget toys with many simple pieces folded together ^^ I still have them, along with an entire rabbit family made by her and stars with schools paper with her handwriting. Her boyfriend did even more complex pieces that were quite big with lots of tiny details. And they had origami cranes evrywhere from various sizes and colors at their wedding for decoration. Really want to get back into it now :)
I’m to old for bead pets. But in the late 60’s I had a bead loom and could weave beautiful bracelets,etc. Also loved my wood burning kit. can’t wait till your next crafty videos.
I've never seen these before, and we were very crafty as kids, too. I don't know if it's a regional thing or age thing, but I had no idea these bead pets existed until today. For crafts we made things with clay like either salt dough or actual real painting and firing ceramics, we made lanyards, and I used to make necklaces and bracelets with tiny beads on a loom. I also crocheted a little but I didn't really get into crochet until I was an adult. We made clothes for dolls too. When I was a kid, pony beads were something little girls wore in braids in their hair.
My mom was a CampFire Girl leader. She came up with so many different crafts for indoors and outdoors. Cooking sausage and eggs over a campfire in a paper bag. Hobo stew in a metal coffee can. We made necklaces from clear marbles that she heated in a cast-iron skillet, plunged them in ice water so they cracked in the middle and attached them to jewelry findings. We did a lot of felt crafts. Built bird houses out of popsicle sticks and so much more.
I think it started with geckos, because of the way the beads move. I was a teenager in the 90's, and the best part of those was the wavy fidget quality, but it looked like a cute little animal.
I totally feel this. My mom was very "crafty" as well. Too many to list but she was particularly talented at crochet. The one craft that has been my nemesis. Cooking was also her go-to as we got older.
My sister use to make these back in the nineties, the “gapping” drove her crazy so she would weave a piece of sewing thread down the middle. They look so cute laying down it might not be worth the hassle 😊
This was such a fun pull back to childhood. Those kid crafting kits were the best presents growing up. Yes, to bead pets, plastic canvas, crocheting, friendship bracelets, and rubber stamping
Latchhook was our craft. I was fortunate enough to have art class in middle school and we got to design our own pattern. Also, my Dad was into work working for a while. He made us wooden circles that we could paint whatever we wanted on it. I did a land scape. He made a US puzzle that when together was an American flag. That was how I learned the states. The puzzle pieces were the shapes of the states. And who could forget those foam shapes. Oh, my Aunt made the "dough" that you shaped and baked. So fun. I love this series. I love your channel and I don't even sew clothes. I still watch because you are so fun to watch. I am a quilter now. Thank you so much for sharing your crafts/art with us.
Pearler beads were one of my favorite childhood crafts. You can make boxes out of them and 3D things, too, if you layer them. It's not something I ever tried, though. The little idea catalogs were always so fun
The childhood craft I weirdly remember the most is woven pot holders! You got basically a square plastic frame with pegs, and a big bag of fabric loops. I made so many of those darn things, I wonder if my parents still have any in storage haha
It was the 1960s… we made wire loops and dipped them into clear, colored toxic goo that definitely contained toluene. It made flower petals and got us high AF 😂 this was kid friendly crafting back then
I made trivets for hot dishes with my grandma in this technique and we used sturdy glass beads to form squares with pretty patterns. I just got some very nostalgic memories of that so thank you!
I grew up in the 60's and 70's. I usually would get a kit of some kind at Christmas. There were craft kits by the gallors. My first kit was doing those pot holders on the loom, and it went from there. Pillowcase Embroidery kits, macrame kits, crewel kits, hook rug kits. You name it i probably did one.
Ooh I remember making bead lizards too! Not very many though, I did a lot more painting and drawing, and made a lot of stuff out of fimo polymer clay. So many fimo dragons. I wonder if all the unused 15+ year old fimo in my parents basement is still good... I don't remember having many art kits, but I do know I did a rug hooking one that came with a lot of little bits of yarn and a butterfly pattern. I sewed little creatures out of felt, some of which I still have. And I made some clothes for my little rubber monster finger puppets. Vests and a hooded coat, and I made a saddle so they could ride my big plastic triceratops. I loved my monster finger puppets SO much! My favourite one was called Pink Guy and he had a brown leather vest (scrap of leather with 2 holes) and a bracelet (jump ring). The otters and the Links all turned out so cute! If I could I'd give you the big box of wooden beads I have from my uncle's beaded car seat cover that fell apart!
For the otter, if you were to start out with two strands of strings (to make 4 cords to tie) you could attach the longer rows to join the gaping holes, by threading halfway along the row. They might have to be more narrow threads than the cord that you have, but it would work!
Ahh yes so many crafts! I remember doing lots of American Girl and Little House on The Prairie inspired crafts. A lot of food based ones and paper dolls but occasionally there were some more unique crafts to try
Don’t use them as trivets, the paint would probably melt and transfer to the pot. You could back them with some wood or cardboard and glue them down so then you can hang them on the walls…😊
It's a great idea, remaking crafts from childhood into more grownup concepts. I remember the thread friendship bracelets everyone made way back in high school in the 80s. Not the lanyard ones, the ones with embridery floss, which I suspect you may have a bit of in your stash already!
We didn't have these growing up but we did have other kits from time to time. The one that stuck with me was a French Knitting one. Taught everything you needed for knitting on the round combs and flat needles. I still knit to this day and have always enjoyed it so I'm so glad I received that kit when I was young 😊
Ooooo i loved my bead lizard keychain! The woven nylon potholders were fun. Shrinky dinks were interesting. The craft kit you laid out plastic beads and ironed to melt them together was a fun one too.
We did these but in seed beads. I made a nice 3d cobra that could sit using its own rings. We mainly made various bracelets in different techniques. Crochet lace, knitting, sewing, seed beads, cross stitch embroidery, macrame, that's all. My father made me bracelets from his thin colored wires he used for electronics repair
Oh, one more - papercrafts. As in making stars out of strips of paper, the Fröbel star, in particular. Not really a craft, per se, as it's just one thing, but I did so many of those and they still hang on our Christmas tree each year.
I always wanted to learn how to make stuff like bead pets and friendship bracelets but could never get someone to teach me or get the supplies. Now youtube can teach me anything.❤❤
I loved the iron beads as a kid. The tiny plastic beads that you lay out and then iron and they all melt together! I also did friendship bracelets, drawing, play doh, puffy paint, cross stitch, blow pens (not sure if they make those still) Now im into quilting! And painting and coloring still lol
My first thought for a use with the wooden beads is a trivet. You could leave the big otter on the kitchen counter and put hot pots on him. Cute and a function!
my mom used to get me a ton of klutz kits. it's how I learned crochet and knitting~ but I remember doing paper twirling, quilting, friendship bracelets, I loved them a ton even if most of them I didn't end up keeping as hobbies
I was a crafty kid in the '70's. I learned embroidery and at Christmas time we did DIY ornament kits where beads on straight pins are onto Styrofoam ina pattern. My sister, who is five years. Older than me,.hers were beautiful. Mine were less so.
Same era! Loved those. Probably parents now would think a craft with straight pins and tiny beads and sequins would be inappropriate for small children.
Name suggestions: Comeback Crafts Nostalgia Notions or Notions of Nostalgia Throwback Knacks Retro Crafts Modern Memories I'm just spitballing some names. It's funny you bring this up, because I've been thinking about making a giant gecko out of hand made fabric beads as a giant throw pillow. And I found the same crochet geckos!
I was just thinking about when my mom kept us busy on Christmas Eve making paper chains and was thinking about doing it just for fun. Definitely going to try it now. Thanks for the motivation!
As far as modern kids' crafts I would have loved if they'd been around when I was a kid, Rainbow Loom is a super fascinating technique, years a similar part of the brain as fiber arts as far as I can tell.
They'd all be super cute as wall hangings. I think I'd either attach a stable backing or maybe even just glue the beads to each other (super glue? wood glue? epoxy? ...no idea what would be the best adhesive for this).
I was definitely a crafty kid... I tried cross stitch, long stitch, hama beads, friendship bracelets, candle making, air dry clay, wooden dinosaur skeletons, quilling... I'm sure there were more
I was thinking those big wooden ones would make good trivets. Like you could even do cute seasonal ones for any big holiday dinners like a polar bear for Christmas or a bunny for Easter.
This is a single string concept that you can scale up to loom beading, which a lot of indigenous folks use for regalia and earrings and all sorts of beautiful things
Oh yeah we did all the crafts. We used to go to this one store Fenwicks and get a kit box. I loved Spirograph and knex which I think is the thing with the straws where you make ferris wheels and stuff. So fun.
I got loads of craft kits as a child. I got basket weaving, painting-by-numbers, candle making, and cross stitch kits well into my university years. I'm currently looking at the seagrass woven footstool I got from a kit that I made in my teens. It's at the other end of the kitchen and it's got a houseplant on it. I got a batik dyeing kit when i was 11 or 12. I had trouble getting the dye to fix onto the fabric and getting the wax off properly. I really must have another go at that as an adult. In fact, I've got a load of mock up fabric that I could use... hmmm... ideas.
I've been doing the opposite lately - making tiny bead lizards out of seed beads to wear as earrings. I should expand into other critters. Another idea I had just now: using M&Ms or similar candies to make 'bead' creatures on shortbread or gingerbread cookies. (If you don't want to make frosting, you can apply the candy before baking the cookie and they'll adhere in the oven.) There's a stitching technique where you basically weave thread perpendicular to the lines of beading to hold the rows together, so it doesn't stretch out under its own weight. (I wanted to say 'peyote stitch' but that's something different; still bead-related, though.) On the other hand, the otters could stay horizontal and be beaded coasters. Put a drink on their belly where they would be holding their favourite rock. (Or use as trivets, like you said in the video.) Link's beaded portrait turned out great! Mammals are born with their eyes the same size they will be for the rest of their life. Ears and noses constantly grow. Potential series names, just based in what you said in this video: Crafty Crafting; Revisiting Childhood Crafts; 90s Nostalgia Crafts. A craft I remember doing a few times was gluing pompoms and pipe-cleaners together to make little creatures. Especially penguins with pipe-cleaner bow-ties. I also really liked those dollhouse furniture kits with pre-cut wooden sheets where you popped the pieces out and slotted them together. They were like 3D jigsaw puzzles, especially since the packet often *said* there were instructions included but then Did Not Actually Include Them, so you had to work it out based on the single reference photo on the front.
You could stabilize the bigger otter by adding a smaller thread tying 2beads from one row, with 2beads from a lower row. Like in beading with square stitch. Just a tip to look into if you feel like it. ❤
I am so looking forward to watching this when I get home. I really like the different ways and different materials people have been using to make these beaded key chains on the internet recently. One person was using HUGE clay beads they had made themselves. Like, not as big as my head, but pretty close.
I made bead pet earrings and sold them in middle school (glass seed beads and wire)… and to help with the flimsy-ness of the wider beads, you can just weave more cord vertically through the piece to connect the rows to each other in columns.
The crafts I remember from being a kid were perler beads, bead friends, friendship bracelets, scrapbooking, painting, puffy paint clothing, putting gems on clothing(I can't remember what this is called), and coloring. I'm sure there are others that I am missing.
I love the little Link with the floppy ears--that's so adorable! If you don't mind a suggestion, you could lay the larger animals flat, right side down and wrong side up, arrange them exactly as you want them, then glue a piece of felt cut to shape (but a skosh smaller so the edges don't show) to the back side with a dot of glue on each bead. That would keep them from moving and prevent those holes.
"they're always dirty" about your glasses. Oh I feel you so hard on that, lol. The idea of going back to childhood crafts would be interesting. As always, wonderful to see another video from you. ❤
I used to make friendship bracelets when I was about 12 and stopped when I was around 15. Later, in my 30s, I bought embroidery floss for a project that never saw the light of day, and I asked myself if friendship bracelets were still a thing. Not only was it still a thing, but the patterns were so much more interesting! When I was a teen, I only could make cheverons and reversed cheverons (forwards and backwards knots). I didn't know about FB or BF knots, and even less about the alpha bracelets technique. (Internet wasn't much of a thing at that time). I've found a youtube channel with an easy enough tutorial for my rusted self, and got back to it from then. I've even developed my own techniques and style and that is how I cured a part of my depression :) (sorry if bad English, here's a potato 🥔)
With the ones that are gapping, you could add, by sewing, in some stabilizing stitches with an appropriate thread color, clear or maybe an accent color to make stripes in the design. It all depends on the end goal of the art piece. Great work! Grew up in the 90s as well, though these were never something I was personally interested in at the time.
One of the crafts I did lost as a kid was the one where you make some sort of cord out of yarn with a wooden tube. I learned basic weaving and made some doll clothes, learned how to knit from my grandmother who very much did not enjoy that but knew how not, and made animals out of felt. Oh, and friendship bracelets of many kinds were also of staple, we also made many many bead bracelets at one point (the very basic kind). I also had a kit for candle making, for drawing with colored sand, I did some embroidery, clay and salt dough molding. Probably many more that I can't remember right now
@sallythekolcat Mine had 4 but I guess it would be just the same with 6, just larger. Yes, French knitting seems the English name, I'm French myself and was too lazy yesterday to look up the translation 🙃
I remember making these! Although the kits I had when I was a kid were for seed beads and used jewellery wire - I wish I knew where my little lizard ended up!
I remember buying the kits for my kids. I’ve bought some for my grandson but he’s not really into it. Had him in sewing lessons he enjoyed it but didn’t want to do more. Someday I will find something he will do!
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Beadwork like this is a traditional Zulu craft. Zulu artists make the most gorgeous jewellery using this type of technique.
Thanks for the context. Now I have a rabbit hole to follow :D
Pay no attention to pedantor (me). In the US it is jewelry. The UK uses alllll the superfluous spelling and pronunciations.
@@e.keesey I'm a USian, and I like Jewellery better. It looks fancier, the way pieces of Jewellery do.
If you painted the eye beads a coat of clear nail varnish, or similar, over the darker brown, then they would read as eyes because they would be shiny next to the matt of all the 'fur' beads. Hope that makes sense. They all look brilliant! x
The vinegar-y smell is really common in items that are shipped via cargo container, it's a preventative spray against both fungus and pests, while the items are sitting for months in a dark shipping container with no ventilation.
Fascinating!
That's interesting... my daughter got a kinetic sand play bin, and the colorful sands smell fine but the naturally colored sand smells very strongly of vinegar. Maybe just that type was shipped via cargo ship??
Came here to find the answer when Charlie mentioned
@@CWorgen5732perhaps the process of coloring the other sands had anti fungal/mold properties and only the natural sand needed the vinegar smelling process?
I was the Handicraft Director at a summer camp. During one parents weekends, one of the Dad's was intently working on a pony bead bracelet. Turns out it was his anniversary. He forgot. So, to buy himself some time, he was making his wife a "diamond tennis bracelet"
Inspired-I did get some upscale materials and made some kind of classy stuff...
BTW: his wife thought the tennis bracelet was hilarious and far more appropriate for unwrapping in the middle of the woods than the fine jewelry gift that was "waiting at home" (his wife was pretty certain that it was still waiting at the jewelry store)
I was a child in the 80's. Safety pins with seed beads were very popular to trade and put on your shoe laces. Also knotted friendship bracelets made with embroidery floss.
So. Many. Friendship. Bracelets.
We did safety pin seed bead flags and sold out at the holiday craft fair.
I guess the wooden version of it could be a great coaster or something to put your hot pots/bowls/kettle on? I think we had something like that in the kitchen when I was little and it was adorable, maybe you'll find this idea fun too!
They would make wonderful and adorable coasters!
We had a square hot pad made this way, out of corks from wine bottles. but they had also woven the cotton threads through crosswise.
it was stable enough to throw as a frisbee.
Paint by Number kits; Embroidery; Knitting; Crocheting; I made a stuffed clown doll using a pattern on the back of the fiberfill bag; woven potholders; pom pom poncho. Never did beads as a kid, but later in life I did a fair amount of bead work and wire jewelry crafting--all of my earrings I made myself, including the ear wires. I taught knitting and crochet as an older adult and crochet every day.
And many other things . . .
A big childhood craft for us was "window colour". At least that was its German name. So the plasticy transparent paints that you stick to the window afterwards. HUGE! Expescially with colouring in pages to paint over. Every season new window decor! Yeah! :D
Also: potato stamps, salt dough shapes, marbling things like easter eggs with nail poish on top of warm water (does that have a name?), making paper lanterns with transparent paper. Those ironing beads and in my time (early 2000s): scooby doo bands. They smelled so much like cheap plastic.
Water marbling! It's also called hydro dipping. Haven't done it with easter eggs before, though it makes a lot of sense. I might have to try it one year instead of just dyeing them :)
Very elegant edit at 0:28 going from the store and re-entering your room. Subliminal. Very cool.
The pearls bag thing make me immediatly want to put a plant in it!!! I will definitly make some for my suculents, thanks for the idea ^u^
That was so cute! I immediately thought of shrinky dinks and friendship bracelets I did as a kid and I now want to do all the childhood crafts too!
Now I want to do shrinky dink needle minders!
I love a series idea like this! Also I love that Charlie also watches Pottery to the People. Both channels are Delightful!
Love Pottery for the People. I so want kiln.
Although given after the newness wore off, I bet it would end up where I store my stash of beads (including pony beads, glass beads, and Parker beads), Latch hook supplies, and candlemaking supplies...etc.
But I so want a kiln and clay.
those came out very cute, but I can't stop laughing at Matt at the end asking if you wanted anything from guitar center. I agree with him, your loss lol
A 40 year old Les Paul would have been a fun answer. :)
Remember those lanyards made of flat plastic thread? I remember making so many of those in summer camp. Also latch hook, shrinky dinks, paper fashion dolls, a knitting machine that broke on the first use, basically any klutz craft kit I could get my hands on from the toy store. So many crafts that I want to revisit myself. Also my aunt brought to Thanksgiving this year a rag wreath she was making by just stabbing precut pieces of fabric into a straw wreath with a screwdriver. Looked very fun and cathartic.
I LIVED for Klutz books!!!
Scoubidous! The plastic thread thingys. At least, I think that's how you spell it.
Nostalgia Crafts. We did a lot of crafts: Perler Beads, tie dye, friendship bracelets, those plastic lanyards bracelets, and making play houses out of cardboard boxes (stuff my mother liked to do with us) but not really kits. I don't think art & craft kits were the same as they are now when I was a kid (early 80s), it was completely different when I was teen. The only kit I clearly remember is getting one of the loop potholder looms. We also got introduced to a lot of crafts in school and after school programs so we already knew we liked something before we got our own supplies. My mom did care for kits as much as letting us figure it out on our own.
Well now I wanna make one tiny with seed beads
I made myself seed bead lizards earrings and they are wonderful
Klutz had a kit like this, with wire instead of cord. It's delightful and you totally should
Suggestion: use string if it's meant to move (earrings, etc.) or wire of it will be wiggled less (a still decoration on a wall, etc.) The ones I've made to wear with wire always break eventually. Glass seed beads get heavy after a while.
Do it!!! Its so fun and the texture of the seed beads feels so nice
My sister and I used to make little lizard earrings! Highly recommend!
I’m 53, i remember my aunt visiting when I was a child, we made bead pet earrings. From beads she brought from Mexico when visiting my grandfather. One thing I remember is pulling the thread up around the previous row to hold rows together to avoid sagging. For many years after that was my aunts go to gift for me for Christmas and when she visited.
I was a child of the 60’s. I loved “sewing cards” like a dot-to-dot with yarn. I also loved weaving potholders on a loom and making mosaic pictures with braid you glued down following a design and filled the spaces with glitter or crushed rock, like aquarium gravel in colors. I always sewed from a very young age. I later learned knitting. When my daughter was young we did the bead pets. She was in 3rd grade when her oldest brother left for college. She hid bead animal in all his boxes!
One kit I remember (and I’m a lot older than you) was the dipped wire flowers. So, you make a petal shape out of wire, then you dip it into this viscus, brightly colored, petroleum-smelling liquid which made a thin film in the wire shape. You let it dry overnight and wire all the petals together to form a flower. The petals all dried semi-see-through… like glass. Very pretty! I’m not sure such a thing is around anymore…probably causes cancer.
I wonder if it was a type of resin? Sounds like fun (even if maybe toxic).
Oh my god I did this!! And I had completely forgotten about it! I remember it looked so cool and felt really smooth once dry, but if you didn't do it just right you'd end up with holes... Okay, that's going on the list to look up!
I think I've seen that on Pinterest somewhere! No idea what the liquid was though, I think something I couldn't easily get (or it is something that doesn't have an easy to find equal here in the not-USA).
Maybe I pinned it? Should I check?
Okay so I checked and the one I saved used 2 coats of wood glue (1 dipped, second painted on) and then painted them with nail polish. So that wouldn't be transparent (unless transparent nail polish? Or maybe watered down with acetone?) but they could still be very pretty.
Nail polish works too
A big 90's/aughties craft I remember loving was quilling and making things with mini terracotta pots and wood beds. I specifically remember doing a bunch of little penguins with the upside down pot for the body/belly
Salt dough or home made play dough to make Christmas ornaments. We made felt ones too. My mom also made macrame wall hangings with roving, huge beads, leather cord etc. She also made a great wall art piece out of those plastic rings that used to attach six packs of soda and spray paint.
The otters & puppy are adorable! I was a kid in the 70's, and remember doing paint-by-number kits, macrame bracelets, faux stained glass, spirograph, water color painting, coloring books, a little bit of sewing & a whole mess of stuff in Girl Scouts. Oh yes, also painting ceramics in 5th grade, and with my mom when she went to a weekly class.
A craft that I did when I was young and still do 30 years later is origami. It was great. You didn't need a lot of stuff, just paper, and could do so many things... I still have my first origami book and still cherish it ! ❤
Thank you for your videos. They're always interesting and fun. ☺️
@@mareene6803 Oh yes, origami ! I knew how to do a few basic things as a child but got more into it in my last year of high school because of a friend who would often do them in class. The teachers wouldn't mind because she was quiet and listening, and she would often let things she had done on the table, so they often picked them up to keep them 😁 Then there were both of us making fidget toys with many simple pieces folded together ^^ I still have them, along with an entire rabbit family made by her and stars with schools paper with her handwriting. Her boyfriend did even more complex pieces that were quite big with lots of tiny details. And they had origami cranes evrywhere from various sizes and colors at their wedding for decoration. Really want to get back into it now :)
When I was expecting my third child in the summer of 1998 I kept the other two kids entertained with bead animals. They loved it.
I’m to old for bead pets. But in the late 60’s I had a bead loom and could weave beautiful bracelets,etc. Also loved my wood burning kit. can’t wait till your next crafty videos.
My top three kiddie crafts: potholders made from old nylon pantyhose, dream catchers made from popsicle sticks, and lanyards made with plastic string!
Charlie: "Do you wanna watch paint dry".
Me: "Yes".
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Hard same.😊
I've never seen these before, and we were very crafty as kids, too. I don't know if it's a regional thing or age thing, but I had no idea these bead pets existed until today. For crafts we made things with clay like either salt dough or actual real painting and firing ceramics, we made lanyards, and I used to make necklaces and bracelets with tiny beads on a loom. I also crocheted a little but I didn't really get into crochet until I was an adult. We made clothes for dolls too. When I was a kid, pony beads were something little girls wore in braids in their hair.
My mom was a CampFire Girl leader. She came up with so many different crafts for indoors and outdoors. Cooking sausage and eggs over a campfire in a paper bag. Hobo stew in a metal coffee can. We made necklaces from clear marbles that she heated in a cast-iron skillet, plunged them in ice water so they cracked in the middle and attached them to jewelry findings.
We did a lot of felt crafts. Built bird houses out of popsicle sticks and so much more.
Craft from the past! Bead pets were great and still are amazing. Love your videos.
craft from the past - excellent name!
Your love for your mother shines through and that is lovely :)
I think it started with geckos, because of the way the beads move. I was a teenager in the 90's, and the best part of those was the wavy fidget quality, but it looked like a cute little animal.
I totally feel this. My mom was very "crafty" as well. Too many to list but she was particularly talented at crochet. The one craft that has been my nemesis.
Cooking was also her go-to as we got older.
My sister use to make these back in the nineties, the “gapping” drove her crazy so she would weave a piece of sewing thread down the middle. They look so cute laying down it might not be worth the hassle 😊
This was such a fun pull back to childhood. Those kid crafting kits were the best presents growing up. Yes, to bead pets, plastic canvas, crocheting, friendship bracelets, and rubber stamping
Latchhook was our craft. I was fortunate enough to have art class in middle school and we got to design our own pattern. Also, my Dad was into work working for a while. He made us wooden circles that we could paint whatever we wanted on it. I did a land scape. He made a US puzzle that when together was an American flag. That was how I learned the states. The puzzle pieces were the shapes of the states. And who could forget those foam shapes. Oh, my Aunt made the "dough" that you shaped and baked. So fun. I love this series. I love your channel and I don't even sew clothes. I still watch because you are so fun to watch. I am a quilter now. Thank you so much for sharing your crafts/art with us.
So many childhood memories! My family was much like yours and we did a ton of kids crafts. I’m so happy to get to follow along with your journey ❤
Pearler beads were one of my favorite childhood crafts. You can make boxes out of them and 3D things, too, if you layer them. It's not something I ever tried, though. The little idea catalogs were always so fun
The childhood craft I weirdly remember the most is woven pot holders! You got basically a square plastic frame with pegs, and a big bag of fabric loops. I made so many of those darn things, I wonder if my parents still have any in storage haha
It was the 1960s… we made wire loops and dipped them into clear, colored toxic goo that definitely contained toluene. It made flower petals and got us high AF 😂 this was kid friendly crafting back then
I made trivets for hot dishes with my grandma in this technique and we used sturdy glass beads to form squares with pretty patterns. I just got some very nostalgic memories of that so thank you!
This was very comforting and whimsical. I had such a good time on the journey you guided us through 💚🌲
ROFL!!! Casually walks into the other room (Michaels) and gets craft kit. 😂
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I grew up in the 60's and 70's. I usually would get a kit of some kind at Christmas. There were craft kits by the gallors. My first kit was doing those pot holders on the loom, and it went from there. Pillowcase Embroidery kits, macrame kits, crewel kits, hook rug kits. You name it i probably did one.
Ooh I remember making bead lizards too! Not very many though, I did a lot more painting and drawing, and made a lot of stuff out of fimo polymer clay. So many fimo dragons. I wonder if all the unused 15+ year old fimo in my parents basement is still good...
I don't remember having many art kits, but I do know I did a rug hooking one that came with a lot of little bits of yarn and a butterfly pattern.
I sewed little creatures out of felt, some of which I still have. And I made some clothes for my little rubber monster finger puppets. Vests and a hooded coat, and I made a saddle so they could ride my big plastic triceratops. I loved my monster finger puppets SO much!
My favourite one was called Pink Guy and he had a brown leather vest (scrap of leather with 2 holes) and a bracelet (jump ring).
The otters and the Links all turned out so cute!
If I could I'd give you the big box of wooden beads I have from my uncle's beaded car seat cover that fell apart!
For the otter, if you were to start out with two strands of strings (to make 4 cords to tie) you could attach the longer rows to join the gaping holes, by threading halfway along the row. They might have to be more narrow threads than the cord that you have, but it would work!
Ahh yes so many crafts! I remember doing lots of American Girl and Little House on The Prairie inspired crafts. A lot of food based ones and paper dolls but occasionally there were some more unique crafts to try
Don’t use them as trivets, the paint would probably melt and transfer to the pot. You could back them with some wood or cardboard and glue them down so then you can hang them on the walls…😊
It's a great idea, remaking crafts from childhood into more grownup concepts. I remember the thread friendship bracelets everyone made way back in high school in the 80s. Not the lanyard ones, the ones with embridery floss, which I suspect you may have a bit of in your stash already!
We didn't have these growing up but we did have other kits from time to time. The one that stuck with me was a French Knitting one. Taught everything you needed for knitting on the round combs and flat needles. I still knit to this day and have always enjoyed it so I'm so glad I received that kit when I was young 😊
If you wanted to hang it, you could glue the beads together! These are so cute!!! ❤
Ooooo i loved my bead lizard keychain! The woven nylon potholders were fun. Shrinky dinks were interesting. The craft kit you laid out plastic beads and ironed to melt them together was a fun one too.
Bead pets, macrame, hand sewing little pouch’s, clay pots, rug crafts, knitting, embroidery, and that’s what I could remember quickly.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and I remember making a lot of loom potholders and latch hook rugs.
Me, too!
"Pastime powerup" or something with those words could work. Or like... Kidcrafts grown up
This is so much fun 😊
We did these but in seed beads. I made a nice 3d cobra that could sit using its own rings. We mainly made various bracelets in different techniques. Crochet lace, knitting, sewing, seed beads, cross stitch embroidery, macrame, that's all. My father made me bracelets from his thin colored wires he used for electronics repair
Oh, one more - papercrafts. As in making stars out of strips of paper, the Fröbel star, in particular. Not really a craft, per se, as it's just one thing, but I did so many of those and they still hang on our Christmas tree each year.
I did about a million of the loomed potholders when I was a kid.
I always wanted to learn how to make stuff like bead pets and friendship bracelets but could never get someone to teach me or get the supplies. Now youtube can teach me anything.❤❤
I loved the iron beads as a kid. The tiny plastic beads that you lay out and then iron and they all melt together!
I also did friendship bracelets, drawing, play doh, puffy paint, cross stitch, blow pens (not sure if they make those still)
Now im into quilting! And painting and coloring still lol
@@abbyburke9815 Loved them too (although I mostly did them as an ephemeral thing and rarely got my parents to iron them)
My first thought for a use with the wooden beads is a trivet. You could leave the big otter on the kitchen counter and put hot pots on him. Cute and a function!
my mom used to get me a ton of klutz kits. it's how I learned crochet and knitting~ but I remember doing paper twirling, quilting, friendship bracelets, I loved them a ton even if most of them I didn't end up keeping as hobbies
My mother had a ceramics shop when I was little and we also did all sorts of needle crafts
I was a crafty kid in the '70's. I learned embroidery and at Christmas time we did DIY ornament kits where beads on straight pins are onto Styrofoam ina pattern. My sister, who is five years. Older than me,.hers were beautiful. Mine were less so.
Same era! Loved those. Probably parents now would think a craft with straight pins and tiny beads and sequins would be inappropriate for small children.
Name suggestions:
Comeback Crafts
Nostalgia Notions
or Notions of Nostalgia
Throwback Knacks
Retro Crafts
Modern Memories
I'm just spitballing some names. It's funny you bring this up, because I've been thinking about making a giant gecko out of hand made fabric beads as a giant throw pillow. And I found the same crochet geckos!
I really like Comeback Crafts!
I have a Christmas beanie kit. Also you can paint lots of wooden beads in a zip bag.
I was just thinking about when my mom kept us busy on Christmas Eve making paper chains and was thinking about doing it just for fun. Definitely going to try it now. Thanks for the motivation!
Pottery, painting ceramics, noodles art (or beans and seed) decoupage, stamping, calligraphy, and lots of sewing
Ii forgot:we also painted a lot of those wooden Christmas ornaments and other little wooden things
As far as modern kids' crafts I would have loved if they'd been around when I was a kid, Rainbow Loom is a super fascinating technique, years a similar part of the brain as fiber arts as far as I can tell.
I love otters! So nice to see a craft with them :)
They'd all be super cute as wall hangings. I think I'd either attach a stable backing or maybe even just glue the beads to each other (super glue? wood glue? epoxy? ...no idea what would be the best adhesive for this).
I was definitely a crafty kid... I tried cross stitch, long stitch, hama beads, friendship bracelets, candle making, air dry clay, wooden dinosaur skeletons, quilling... I'm sure there were more
Oo quilling - that's one I'd forgotten about!
I was thinking those big wooden ones would make good trivets.
Like you could even do cute seasonal ones for any big holiday dinners like a polar bear for Christmas or a bunny for Easter.
This is a single string concept that you can scale up to loom beading, which a lot of indigenous folks use for regalia and earrings and all sorts of beautiful things
Our local library did a 90s party a few months ago and this was one of the crafts you could do. I did them a ton in 4th grade particularly.
Oh yeah we did all the crafts. We used to go to this one store Fenwicks and get a kit box. I loved Spirograph and knex which I think is the thing with the straws where you make ferris wheels and stuff. So fun.
So darn cute!!! Couldn’t do my cat in beads she is all gray. Wish I had those crafts as a kid. You had a great mom.
I got loads of craft kits as a child. I got basket weaving, painting-by-numbers, candle making, and cross stitch kits well into my university years. I'm currently looking at the seagrass woven footstool I got from a kit that I made in my teens. It's at the other end of the kitchen and it's got a houseplant on it. I got a batik dyeing kit when i was 11 or 12. I had trouble getting the dye to fix onto the fabric and getting the wax off properly. I really must have another go at that as an adult. In fact, I've got a load of mock up fabric that I could use... hmmm... ideas.
These are so cute! Never made them myself as a kid but I've seen the kits. Love how you designed a Link version!!!
I've been doing the opposite lately - making tiny bead lizards out of seed beads to wear as earrings. I should expand into other critters. Another idea I had just now: using M&Ms or similar candies to make 'bead' creatures on shortbread or gingerbread cookies. (If you don't want to make frosting, you can apply the candy before baking the cookie and they'll adhere in the oven.)
There's a stitching technique where you basically weave thread perpendicular to the lines of beading to hold the rows together, so it doesn't stretch out under its own weight. (I wanted to say 'peyote stitch' but that's something different; still bead-related, though.) On the other hand, the otters could stay horizontal and be beaded coasters. Put a drink on their belly where they would be holding their favourite rock. (Or use as trivets, like you said in the video.) Link's beaded portrait turned out great!
Mammals are born with their eyes the same size they will be for the rest of their life. Ears and noses constantly grow.
Potential series names, just based in what you said in this video: Crafty Crafting; Revisiting Childhood Crafts; 90s Nostalgia Crafts.
A craft I remember doing a few times was gluing pompoms and pipe-cleaners together to make little creatures. Especially penguins with pipe-cleaner bow-ties.
I also really liked those dollhouse furniture kits with pre-cut wooden sheets where you popped the pieces out and slotted them together. They were like 3D jigsaw puzzles, especially since the packet often *said* there were instructions included but then Did Not Actually Include Them, so you had to work it out based on the single reference photo on the front.
You could stabilize the bigger otter by adding a smaller thread tying 2beads from one row, with 2beads from a lower row. Like in beading with square stitch. Just a tip to look into if you feel like it. ❤
I am so looking forward to watching this when I get home. I really like the different ways and different materials people have been using to make these beaded key chains on the internet recently. One person was using HUGE clay beads they had made themselves. Like, not as big as my head, but pretty close.
I made bead pet earrings and sold them in middle school (glass seed beads and wire)… and to help with the flimsy-ness of the wider beads, you can just weave more cord vertically through the piece to connect the rows to each other in columns.
The crafts I remember from being a kid were perler beads, bead friends, friendship bracelets, scrapbooking, painting, puffy paint clothing, putting gems on clothing(I can't remember what this is called), and coloring. I'm sure there are others that I am missing.
What fun! I loved how the unpainted pup looks like an angel. Cause we know dogs are angels!
If you sew a liner basket thing for your bag, that may help. It could tie around the handles or something? Super cute idea.
I love the little Link with the floppy ears--that's so adorable!
If you don't mind a suggestion, you could lay the larger animals flat, right side down and wrong side up, arrange them exactly as you want them, then glue a piece of felt cut to shape (but a skosh smaller so the edges don't show) to the back side with a dot of glue on each bead. That would keep them from moving and prevent those holes.
I made a lot of pillow covers out of those latch rug kits!
you can use embroidery floss and weave it through the rows, to hold them together when hanging.
Never done any of this. Looks like fun
"they're always dirty" about your glasses. Oh I feel you so hard on that, lol. The idea of going back to childhood crafts would be interesting. As always, wonderful to see another video from you. ❤
I used to make friendship bracelets when I was about 12 and stopped when I was around 15. Later, in my 30s, I bought embroidery floss for a project that never saw the light of day, and I asked myself if friendship bracelets were still a thing. Not only was it still a thing, but the patterns were so much more interesting! When I was a teen, I only could make cheverons and reversed cheverons (forwards and backwards knots). I didn't know about FB or BF knots, and even less about the alpha bracelets technique. (Internet wasn't much of a thing at that time). I've found a youtube channel with an easy enough tutorial for my rusted self, and got back to it from then. I've even developed my own techniques and style and that is how I cured a part of my depression :)
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We used hemp cord for ours. Spent many hours beading between races at swim meets. So much fun.
Those could be very silly coasters. They are just fun decoration. ❤
With the ones that are gapping, you could add, by sewing, in some stabilizing stitches with an appropriate thread color, clear or maybe an accent color to make stripes in the design. It all depends on the end goal of the art piece. Great work! Grew up in the 90s as well, though these were never something I was personally interested in at the time.
One of the crafts I did lost as a kid was the one where you make some sort of cord out of yarn with a wooden tube. I learned basic weaving and made some doll clothes, learned how to knit from my grandmother who very much did not enjoy that but knew how not, and made animals out of felt. Oh, and friendship bracelets of many kinds were also of staple, we also made many many bead bracelets at one point (the very basic kind). I also had a kit for candle making, for drawing with colored sand, I did some embroidery, clay and salt dough molding. Probably many more that I can't remember right now
did the wooden tube had 4 or 6 pegs in the top? they have many names, but i find 'french knitter' the easiest to google.
@sallythekolcat Mine had 4 but I guess it would be just the same with 6, just larger. Yes, French knitting seems the English name, I'm French myself and was too lazy yesterday to look up the translation 🙃
Otters are my favorite animal! I love this!!
Soooo excited for this series!
I remember making these! Although the kits I had when I was a kid were for seed beads and used jewellery wire - I wish I knew where my little lizard ended up!
I remember buying the kits for my kids. I’ve bought some for my grandson but he’s not really into it. Had him in sewing lessons he enjoyed it but didn’t want to do more. Someday I will find something he will do!