How to make
your own custom stickers - Vinegar method.
Method #2 (Vinegar
Method)
Sticker
Sticky Stuff Ingredients:
8 T. (120 ml)
vinegar
4 packets of unflavored gelatin (such as Knox)
1 T. (15 ml) flavor extract of your choice *
Directions:
After you have gathered all of the pictures
that you 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. In a small saucepan or pot, bring vinegar to
a boil.
2. Add the unflavored gelatin and reduce to low
heat, stirring until gelatin is completely dissolved.
3. Add extract and mix well.
4. Cool mixture.
5. Brush mixture thinly onto the back of the
picture you want to turn into a sticker.Paper may curl but will straighten when
the sticker is applied!
6. Let stickers dry, sticky side up, on a piece
of aluminum foil.
7. After stickers are dry, you just moisten to
activate the glue and apply as stickers!Makes ½ cup (125 ml)
*
You
can make this fun by alternating the kind of extract you use....try
lemon, orange, strawberry, or rootbeer for variation. But be careful,
you might catch the kids licking all the sticky stuff off trying to
find the flavor they like best. Another idea is to vary the extract
flavoring by the subject of the stickers...use coconut for a tropical
theme or peppermint for the Christmas holidays.
Tips for 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 such as:
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.
