Make a dream-catcher! and DIY crafts

Hey you guys!

This can either cost you nearly nothing, or it can cost around $20 – depending on what you find at home.

Here’s what a dream-catcher looks like, in case you haven’t seen one. (They are EVERYWHERE at the moment.)

This is one I made earlier. (Hahaaa! Didn’t make it. Mum bought me that, a while ago, and she said it was ‘Stupid expensive’.)

You will need:

• A doily. Mum already had a few, so mine cost nothing. You can buy them from St Vincent De Paul for around $3-5. (Mum said.)


• A hoop. I got mine at Spotlight – around $4.


• Craft glue.


• Yarn or cotton – to attach your doily.


• Different types of ribbon, cotton, materials cut into strips – to weave around the hoop, and to hang from the bottom.


• Feathers and beads – if you want to add those. (The one mum bought me has both.)

Mum had these cool doilies because a friend of hers gave them to her:

The stuff you need:

Get your hoop, put a bit of glue on it, and wrap whatever material you feel like using all the way around it. I used a pale-coloured ribbon.

When you’re finished covering the hoop, tie a length of cotton to it. Then just start looping through the doily holes, and around the hoop, like below. (I got half-way through threading mine and had to undo it – because my doily has those edges, it didn’t look good! So I just tied it on with several smaller pieces of cotton.) See what looks best for yours.

When you have finished attaching the doily, you can start tying on the extra ribbons, etc. (I chose white and yellow ribbon and wool.)

They don’t have to be ‘special’ kind of knots. I just did regular knots.

Keep tying them on, until you’re really happy with how it looks!

This is how far I got with mine – I was doing it on Thursday night, after swimming squads and after home-work… so I still have to finish it off! But it looks pretty cute already, I think.

Here’s two others, with just feathers. (You can really do whatever you like!)

Hope you try to make one! I’ll be hanging my super cheap one next to mum’s stupid expensive one.

Thanks for reading! X

PS. Next week I’m hoping to go shopping in BRISBANE!

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