Present Pals!

Materials:
Colored or glitter glue sticks
Clear sticks for purging
Sharpie marker
Double sided foam tape (optional)
Patterns
Wax paper or plastic styrene blank
Wrapping paper ribbon

Patterns can be traced from something like a cookie cutter, something you drew yourself, be creative! Just be sure that the lines are dark and heavy, so you can see them through your wax paper or plastic blank. Remember, the simpler, the better.

1. Heat up glue gun and put in colored/glitter stick of glue. (hint it's better to start with lighter colors first or the base color of most of your planned creations.)
2. Place your pattern underneath the wax paper or blank.
3. Begin filling in your pattern with glue, use steady, even pressure on the trigger of your glue gun. Try to fill in with a back and forth motion or circular. Drawing an outline of the pattern with glue and going back to fill it in will result in the border drying before the center, so you will have an uneven texture/look.
4. If you have more patterns to fill with that color, keep going until you are either finished or run out of glue.
5. When the glue has hardened, peel it off the paper.
6. Now is the fun part
a. You can use another color glue to add accents or faces
b. Use the Sharpie to draw on faces or stripes
c. You can glue on rhinestones, beads or bells
d. Anything you can think of!

7. Cut a 1 inch long piece of double sided tape or ready your glue gun
8. When your accents are done drying, cut some matching ribbon and position onto one side of the tape or glue to the back of your accented glue piece. Curl the ribbon (or not), whatever you prefer.
9. Attach the finished piece to gift with tape or glue or even set aside for later!

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