Yarn Heart Craft - FAIL (sort of)
>> Tuesday, February 15, 2011
This past weekend, we tried to make the yarn heart craft that I saw in Family Fun magazine.
Personally, it was an ok craft. I wasn't a big fan of the cornstarch glue. For me, it came out really lumpy and just didn't seem right.
So, after some adjustments, we had a solution that seemed sticky enough to try this craft.
I used two small heart cookie cutters and one big one.
The girls had fun doing it - so I guess that's all that mattered.
In the end, they came out ok. But if I were to do this craft again, I'd do the following:
1. Use liquid starch instead of the cornstarch glue they have in the recipe. It just never worked for me and I ended up adding some glue to the mix to help the yarn stick together.
2. Not use the large heart cookie cutter. Between the glue mixture not working and the cutter being a bit too big, the yarn just never hardened and the heart just fell apart when we picked it up. The smaller cookie cutters worked really well.
Bottom line - out of 5 stars, I gave this craft only 2. Read more...
