A gift from Elle's little guy...

Today Jason and I made his teachers a Christmas present, and since it was pretty simple and really, really cute I figured I would share it with everyone. I think in all (including all of Jason's help) it took probably about an hour to make it all.

So this was our finished project. Two "pencils" for each teacher and we added a small angel ornament that I had made prior to this craft.

 



So to start with we had to collect all the pieces to make this. Since we decided that each of the teachers should have two pencils each (and you can do as many as you think you want) this is what we needed:

8 packs of Rolos
2 pieces of yellow construction paper
1 piece of  pink construction paper
8 Hershey's kisses
regular scissors and a pair of neat shaped scissors
some aluminum foil
some ribbon
my glue gun
and the little angels that I had made before for something else.


First step after getting everything together was to cut the two yellow pieces of construction paper in half both ways

See simple already.

 

Then I took the kiss and put a very small drop of hot glue onto the rolo and attached the kiss to it. This is the part that makes it look like pencil tip.

This is what it looked like when they were all done.

 

Next I took my funny shaped scissors and cut one of the long edges of the yellow square's of paper to make that sharpened look for a pencil.

Still very simple.

 

 

Ok I set those aside and took half of the piece of pink paper and traced 8 circles from a quarter and cut them out. Then I put another small dot of glue on the other end of the Rolo and stuck the small pink circle to the Rolo.

 

I have to give credit to Jason he wanted to help with every step and cut out my circles for me.

 

 

Ok then I just took the rest of that same half of pink paper and cut 8 long strips to finish off the eraser part of the pencil. I used my glue gun to put a dot of glue on the edge of the Rolo roll and just wrapped the strip of paper around the tube and used a second dot of glue to hold the other end together.

This is what they looked like when we got finished with all the pink strips of paper.

 

 

Ok remember those yellow squares with the pretty shaped edges? Now it's time to grab those again. I used two small drops of glue one at the top and one at the bottom to hold them into place. After I secured the corners I did see that it was a little slack in the center so I added a third drop of glue to hold that down too. Then just like the pink papers I wrapped the yellow papers ( remember to put the edge that is cut with the cool shaped scissors down) around the tube and then I put a couple of glue dots to hold it all together. Also a note: The pink strip and yellow paper were longer than the actual shape so I did cut them off to fit the size.

I tried to line the cut line up with the yellow and pink tips.

 

 

What it looked like when all 8 were done.

 

To finish up the pencil look we took a small strip of aluminum foil and like the pink and yellow paper just added a glue dot and wrapped it around the whole thing on top of the paper. I tried to put the foil half in the pink and half in the yellow to make it look more like a real pencil. I'm sure you have all seen the little metal part that holds the eraser to the wood and are getting the idea anyways.

 

I forgot to take a picture at this step :( but take a look at the finished project picture at the top of the page and I'm sure you will be able to see what I am talking about.

 

After we got done making the pencils we just took them two at a time and tied a piece of ribbon around them and before tying the loop part of the bow we just slid the angels loop string over one side of the ribbon and finished off the tying of the bow.

 

Last step we took a marker and wrote the teachers name on one of the pencils.

 

DONE!! See I told you it was super simple. One hour and about 10 dollars worth of candy and some other things that I already had here at the house and I have 4 teachers presents done and ready to go.

 

Thank you Jason for helping mom make these and taking a whole hour out of your busy day to spend the time with me that it took to put these together. I love you very much my dear son. Hopefully when you grow up you will think back and remember this kind of  thing.