Recipe

Make Your Own Stickers Recipe

	Tuilelaith / All my dishes 4 months ago My Grands are all the time after me to buy stickers. I found this on the web and thought I would share! It sounds like a weekend of fun to me! http://www.parenthood.com/article-topics/make_your_own_stickers.html Prep:60m Cook:1m Servings:1	Tuilelaith
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Ingredients

1/2 cup warm water

1 package unflavored gelatin, (I wonder if I could add a teaspoon of splenda to this to make licking it taste better! Or even a touch of peppermint, or vanilla! Hmmmm!)

Pictures for stickers, old mags, destroyed kids books, their own drawings in the case of my very creative Grandson!, and lots of other ideas too

Paint brush

aluminum foil, I was wondering if wax paper would not work as well for this. I am going to try it when we do this.

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Found this one on another site:

Sticker Adhesive

1 packet (1/4 ounce) unflavored gelatin

1 tablespoon cold water

3 tablespoons boiling water

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Directions

Ages: 3 to 12

Time: one hour

Skills Required: cutting, painting

Materials: unflavored gelatin, bowl, measuring cup, old magazines or other sources of pictures, water, paintbrush, aluminum foil, paper

Finding Images

The first step in this project is to choose the images that the children would like to make into stickers.

But don’t worry, there are oodles of sources of interesting and fun pictures:

# Old magazines – Set the kids up with a big pile of old magazines that they can use to find pictures of things that interest them. Encourage kids to look for letters in magazines or newspapers and then find a picture of an object that starts with each letter.

# Old catalogs – A great source for fun pictures of familiar characters that are appealing to kids is old catalogs, such as the Disney Store catalog.

# The Web – Pictures of favorite animated friends can also be found on the Internet. A parent or older sibling can print out pictures of characters or objects and then let younger kids add the coloring.

# Create their own – Kids can also draw their own pictures on plain paper and color them with crayons or markers.

# Old photos – If you have extra copies of photos that are no longer needed, kids can cut out the important people or places from the photos and make stickers from these.

# Storybooks – If your child has a favorite storybook, make color photocopies of some of the illustrations and let the child cut out the parts he likes best.

# Greeting cards – Old greeting cards from birthdays or holidays often have cute images that appeal to little ones.

Making Things Stick

After the children have gathered all of the pictures that they want to make into stickers and carefully trimmed around the image, it’s time to make the solution that will be used to transform the pictures into stickers.

Since the solution “sets” fairly quickly, make sure that all of the images are gathered before beginning the process of mixing the solution:

1. First, empty one packet of unflavored gelatin into a small bowl.

2. Carefully measure one-half cup of warm water and add to the bowl of gelatin powder.

3. Stir the mixture until the gelatin is completely dissolved.

4. Use a paintbrush to brush the gelatin solution onto the back of each of the pictures.

5. Let the pictures dry, sticky side up, on a piece of aluminum foil. Once dry, the stickers don’t become “sticky” until they are moistened and can be stored for later use.

When the kids are ready to use the stickers that they’ve created, all they have to do is lick the back of the picture and adhere it to whatever they want.

The dry gelatin is completely tasteless and safe for kids to ingest.

Make sure to provide guidelines about what surfaces are OK for stickers (paper, notebooks, maybe even a lunch box) and what surfaces are off-limits (walls, furniture and dad’s tummy).

From United Parenting Publications, August 2002

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Comments

grizzlybear 4 months ago said:
I Love this one will give me something to do with my grandbabys...my 2 year old is having surgery tomorrow so this will be fun for him to do while recovering at home..THANK YOU FOR A GREAT POST

Big Bear 5 here

valinkenmore 4 months ago said:
Thanks for the ownderful post! Great idea and what fun for the kids!

madmommy 4 months ago said:
OH AWESOME! I love you for this one! :)
a great project for my little guy ^5!

a1patti 4 months ago said:
NICE!! My students and grandchildren will love this! I will have my students make history stickers. Thanks, ^5!!

craigsnedeker 3 months, 3 weeks ago said:
What do these taste like?

xD Joking of course.

ozsmom 2 months, 1 week ago said:
This is very cool, I am gonna try this with my kids. I'd give you 10 forks for this one if i could, but 5 will have to do!

m2googee 2 months ago said:
Here is my 5.

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