Hi there. I'm always being asked why I don't do craft classes for boys and I usually respond by saying that I have a toddler/boy and a teenage stepson and from experience I know that they are not as able to maintain the level of focus that girls do when it comes to crafting. My other reason is that girls crafts are soooo cute and abundant. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Well this Valentine's week I was given the challenge of creating a card box for a kindergarten boy to bring to school. He also had to bring invitations for the 18 students in his class. At first I was thinking "Why is this a big deal? Can't we just throw something together?" But then I had a chat with a super crafty friend of mine who was making a Thomas the Train inspired card box for her son. It was beautiful!!! Multiple boxes put together to look like a train. The boxes were wrapped in blue wrapping paper to have the right look, printouts of the eyes... You get the idea. So I thought about what my client would like and remembered that he likes cars. I enlisted the help of one of my favorite assistants (my husband) who cut and shaped a cardboard box into a car shape with a sunroof opening for the cards to be inserted. The clients mom and I then hot glued different pieces of both card stock and heavy duty scrapbook paper and some stickers, and this is what we came up with.
We then used my favorite Martha Stewart Amazon cutter for the entire project and even used it to cut our post card shaped pieces which we used as the Valentine's Cards. My little client was so excited that he couldn't wait to write on his Valentine's cards and bring his card box to school.
Now that I've completed this project and really enjoyed it, I'm becoming more open to introducing a boys craft class...or I can just craft for boys. Lol
Let me know what you think.
Darley~
