Nifty Gifty Paperºg Reindeer Pg 1

It ’$ easy to tum a standard brown-paper lunch bag into an adorable reindeer gift bag with a few snips ofthe scissors, a few glued goo-gahs and a black permanent marker!

Nifty Gifty

By Florence Boleń Tebbets

Piojp&ufa: Instead of gluing on wiggle eyes, you may draw eyes with wide-tipped permanent marker: Insert cardboard scrap to preverit bleed-through, then draw eyes with wide marker, add eyelash-es with narrow marker and highlight with adot of white pairit applied with a toothpick.

CiafUng Less than 60 minutes to com-plete.

MATERIALS

•    Brown-paper lunch bag

•    3 (9mm) brown chenille stems

•    Pompons:

2 (2") beige 1/" red

1/" white

•    2 (40mm) wiggle eyes

•    15mm gold jingle beli

•    / yard narrow red satin ribbon

•    3" sguare beige felt

•    Paper punch

•    Pencil

•    Scissors

•    Tracing paper

•    Low-temperature glue gun*

•    Scrap of cardboard (optional)

•    Fine-point black permanent marker (optional)

•    Wide-point black permanent marker (optional)

•    White acrylic paint (optional)

•    Toothpick (optional)

'The sample was completed using Floraf Pro low-temperature glue gun and glue sticks from Adhesive Technologies.

INSTRUCTIONS

1.    Place tracing paper over pattern. TracÄ™ with pencil; cut out with scissors.

2.    Position pattem with bottom of lunch bag. TracÄ™ with pencil; cut out with scissors. Punch holes with hole punch through front and back, as indicated on pattem.

3.    Tum bottom flap on back toward back (seam side).

4.    Referring to photo, glue two beige pompons side by side for muzzle. Glue red pompon in center for nose. Glue wiggle eye on each side of nose.

5.    Center a chenille stem between holes on ear in backside of bag. Insert ends of steni from inside to bagoutside. Repeat with another chenille stem from inside bag front to outside bag front. Repeat with remaining chenille stem through bag front. Coil antlers by wrapping each stem arourid a pencil.

6.    Cut 3" square beige felt in half diago-nally. Spread a layer of glue long edge of longest side, as in Fig. 1. Place white pompon in center of triangle; wrap glued edge arourid pompon, as in Fig. 2. Glue taiÅ‚ unit to center back of bag.

7.    Slide j ingle beli onto one antler. Insert ribbon through center holes; tie into a bow.

8.    Insert gift and get ready tor ho-ho-hoing! V

From Quick and Easy Crafts Magazine, Vol 30, No. 6, Page 18, Copyright ® 1997 Quick and Easy Crafts Magazine