5 Cute Ideas for Turning My Melody Coloring Pages into Crafts
When your My Melody coloring pages are finished, think about the accessories you can make. I like engaging my daughter in such activities, as these projects allow her to gain confidence.
Cute Bracelet
Girls will be thrilled if you suggest they create wearable items. Friendship bracelets decorated with the cutouts from My Melody coloring pages can become lovely gifts. If you have an empty paper towel roll, cut off the wider piece of the cardboard. Make a small gap and trim the edges accurately to make your cuff bracelet more convenient to wear. Choose a visual to make a lovely accessory. Remember to cut out a strip with the same dimensions as your bracelet has.
Experiment with various designs to achieve the result you are proud of. If you already have a bracelet at home, glue cutouts to it to make it stylish. Such decorative pieces won’t cost you much. They are unique and fun to wear. Use a durable transparent finish to make them last longer. While they will hardly withstand moisture and heavy rain, they will last for years if one laminates them with affordable acrylic spray.
3D Doll
Once you have finished My Melody coloring pages, use them to create three-dimensional figures of the main protagonists. This project won’t take you longer than 2 hours to complete. Find some cotton balls, toothpicks, glue, and googly eyes. If you have popsicle sticks, they might come in handy as well. Complete the illustrations you are going to use for this project, cut them out, and glue them to toothpicks. Decorate My Melo’s body with cotton balls to make the rabbit fluffy.
You can also use wiggle eyes to make your paper doll more realistic, but it’s optional. Then, frame your creation or use it to create a 3D theater. If you opt for the latter, find some construction paper, fold it to create a fan, and unfold it. Glue the bottom part to a square of green paper. Glue the characters you want to use to the creases. It will allow you to recreate a voluminous scene from the life of this magical creature.
Custom Centerpiece
Are you having a themed birthday party? Complete two My Melody coloring pages and fold one of them into a fan like you did when working on the previous project. Glue the bottom part to a thimble to keep it together. Find a small, neutral-colored basket with shallow edges and glue the thimble to the inside. Put confetti, pom-poms, or other suitable items inside the basket. When everything is ready, put the centrepiece on the table and unfold the fan carefully.
Cut out a paper figure from the other page you have, glue the character to a piece of cardboard, trim the edges carefully, and put the figure in front of the fan. This centerpiece will capture your guests’ attention and bring kids a lot of joy. This project is more challenging to complete, so I always help my daughter when she is not sure how to proceed.
Personalized Jewelry Box
My daughter has a lot of precious items she stores carefully in her treasure box. She uses a simple cardboard and resists my attempts to buy any factory-made box. As she loves My Melody coloring pages, I suggested we decorate her box with paper cutouts. She took this idea enthusiastically, so we started to think about how to bring it to life. We put the figures we cut out from the illustrations between two sheets of wax paper. Then, I ironed them carefully to laminate them. Finally, we glued the images to the walls to make the box more eye-catching.
Alternatively, you can laminate the whole completed sheet and glue it to the walls of your jewelry box. Be sure to cut it to the right dimensions. This project is so enjoyable because it’s simple and does not require any expensive materials.
Cute Headband
For this activity, I recommend you buy a plastic headband in a local store. It will save you time and allow you to create a long-lasting accessory. Cut out any character from My Melody coloring pages and leave one inch of paper at the bottom. Find a piece of thick cardboard and glue the cut-out to it.
Use the extra piece of paper under the figure to glue the figure securely to the headband. It’s better to use at least three figures, with two of them being smaller. It will allow you to design your headpiece as a tiara.
