Crazy Creature Socks

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Crazy Creature Socks

Butterflies and caterpillars find a home on your kids' feet with these two projects.

Butterfly

What You Need:

Wiggle eyes bring these creatures
to life when your child walks.

Shoelaces
Craft foam or felt
Scissors
Glue
Hole punch

Instructions:

1. Cut two 2-1/2-inch-wide butterflies from craft foam.

2. Decorate the wings with crafts-foam scraps attached with blue.

3. Use a hole punch to place 2 holes in the middle of the butterflies. Then, place each of the shoelaces through the holes and move the butterflies to the center of the lace. Place the shoelaces in your shoes so that the butterflies are perched on the bottom loop of the laced section.

Caterpillar

Use a new craft material, pom beads, to turn laces into caterpillars. Pom beads are fuzzy pom-poms that can be used like beads.

What You Need:

Shoelaces
12 pom beads
Wiggle eyes
Chenille stem
Glue

Instructions:

1. String 2 pom beads onto both ends of each shoelace.

2. Glue 2 wiggle eyes on one end of pom beads of each lace. This is the caterpillar head.

3. Curl a 2-inch piece of chenille stem around a pencil. Twist the curled stem between the head of the caterpillar and the pom bead next to it as the caterpillar's antennae. Tie laces into bow, drawing the pom beads together to form caterpillar.