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Trading Laces
- Total Time Needed:
- 1 Hour
A shoelace decorating craft, this project is perfect for friends, since they can customize laces for each other.
- Materials
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- One pair of shoelaces per friend (avoid synthetic laces; they don't hold the paint or marker as well)
- Fabric paint and brushes
- Fine-point fabric markers
- Colorful beads, buttons, or bells that will fit on a lace
- Instructions
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Prewash the laces by soaking them in warm, soapy water for 20 minutes. Let them dry completely.
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Using fabric paint and/or markers, have each child decorate one lace for himself or herself and the other to trade. (After the friends trade, they´ll lace one shoe with their own lace and the other shoe with a friendship lace.) Leave about 2 inches at the ends of the laces undecorated for the beads and buttons (step 4). If you want to decorate both sides, use a light touch so paints and markers don´t bleed through. Lay the laces flat to dry.
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To make the designs permanent, some markers or paints may need to be heat-set. Refer to the directions on the package.
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Lace each shoe and then string the beads and such onto one or both ends of the lace. Tie a knot to keep the beads from slipping off.
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