Welcome to the first in a new series starting today – The Ultimate Guide to 50 Craft Materials. Each day a different blogger will feature a kid’s craft material to create an amazing resource! If you’re a regular reader of my blog you won’t be surprised to know that my chosen craft material is googly eyes!
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I think the key reason why I use them so frequently in our crafts is that they instantly make anything comical and friendly. Check out this spider we made for Halloween – the googly eyes make it instantly full of character!
The second reason that I love using them is that they are essential for making monsters. Monsters are a “catch-all” term that can be used for many crafts where the finished result doesn’t resemble anything definite. We’ve made monsters from salt dough:
We’ve also decorated cookies to look like monsters using edible googly eyes:
A few weeks ago I glued googly eyes onto some paper before F started drawing, and he created a “monster” around them.
Just look at the difference the eyes make. Is it a ball of dough? Or a cute ball of dough?
Is it a splodgy painty handprint or a fish?
We made a special Googly Eye Project for this series using a chunky wooden “F” block that I bought discounted from a craft store. We received the wiggly eyes (as they are also known) free from craftprojectideas.com.
F squeezed on some glue then he added the eyes.
After he’d finished I filled in the gaps to complete this fun decoration!
I hope I’ve inspired you to become a convert to using googly eyes! If you need more inspiration please follow my We Love Googly Eyes Pinterest board!
I’m a firm believer that googly eyes make every project better. 😉 So excited about this awesome series!
Have to agree with you that googly eyes make just about every project better. For that reason I always have a supply on hand of different sizes and colors.
I love the ideas! We use Googly Eyes every chance we can… the kids love them! Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library!
I love that there are edible googly eyes, but we have yet to use them. They are definitely going to be in my shopping cart next time! Can’t wait to follow along throughout this series 🙂
What a great craft material to kick off the series! They do make everything better! And they are probably the craft material that I most associate with you!
We do that too – my daughter loves to add googly eyes, so we just call everything a monster! 🙂 Awesome way to kick off this series!
We LOVE googly eyes! Thank you for a fabulous post and loving the link up too! 🙂
I love me some googly eyes!!! They are SO much fun to use, aren’t they? Thanks so much for this great post with more ideas to try out. 🙂
I wish I had a googly eye project to post. My youngest boy LOVES anything Googly Eyed! I will have to pin this!
Happy new year!
The use of Googly Eyes can make any project come alive to extend learning and play. Thanks for sharing your creative ideas!
Such fun uses!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
Googly eyes just make all crafts even more fun! I love it! I am featuring this on Makeovers & Motherhood’s Welcome Party Wednesday Link-Up this week! Thank you for sharing!
Awesome post! I haven’t worked with googly eyes yet mainly because it is harder to get them here (believe it or not! Have to order online). But I am more inspired now.