Epic Rubber Band Crafts Book Review

April 9, 2014 by Sherri Osborn Leave a Comment

If you have worked with a rubber band loom, you know that you can make some amazing bracelets with it, but have you tried making other things? If you want to take your loom creations to the next level, you should check out all of the unique projects in this book titled Epic Rubber Band Crafts.

The author, Colleen Dorsey, teaches you how to make 15 fun and fashionable projects using easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions and photos. There are also diagrams for each project that will help you with rubber band placement. She also includes a section that teaches you the basics of using the loom along with a section of some helpful tips and hints.

Amongst the projects, you will find directions for making a couple of different bracelets — a Vine Bracelet which you can add beads to and a Fringe Bracelet that can double as a hair scrunchie. Other jewelry items you can make are a Loopy Loop necklace and a combination bracelet and ring. This book is about so much more than rubber band jewelry though…

You can build a robot. To do this, you need to use two looms, side by side, and 220 bands. If you want to make something a little cuter than a robot (at least in some people’s eyes), you can form a cute little penguin using 102 bands. If you are in the mood for something a little faster and easier, try your hand at using simple chaining to make a trick pencil or a light sword.

Of course, these are only a handful of the projects shared in this book. You will find hours of fun making a cell phone case, glamorous beaded curtain and so much more.

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Easy Pen and Paper Games for Road Trips and Beyond

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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