We added this great Mummy Craft idea to our Halloween board at Pinterest, and couldn’t resist trying it ourselves. To make this little mummy, you’ll need:
- white t-shirt or strips of cotton (bedsheet, t-towel, etc)
- Chenille stems or coated wire
- wide craft sticks (optional)
- scissors
We started by cutting an old corporate t-shirt into strips. Finally, corporate gear put to use after a trade show! 🙂
As I was cutting the t-shirt into strips, my crafty girl decided to become a mummy herself:
We built our mummy form using craft sticks and chenille stems. You could probaby do it without the craft sticks, but I wanted something sturdy to wrap around in the middle
Then we started wrapping! Here’s what our mummy looked like after the first layer:
We looped our t-shirt strips into each other so we didn’t have to worry about a lot of loose ends:
Finally, our little mummy was complete! My daughter is taking her to school to decorate their classroom for Halloween. Then she’ll sit on our front step to greet trick or treaters on Halloween night.
This was so much fun! The original idea for this craft can be found at Family Chic
See all that seedy fluff waiting to be transformed? I snapped off a handful of the fluff and set it out to dry (the fall rain has started!!)
To make your birds nest, strip the fluff from the stems by running the stem through your fingers. Collect the fluff and roll it into a ball:
Then shape the nest by carefully pulling at the edges, and squishing your thumb or fingers in the middle. Your finished nest will look something like this:
