Make a beach craft for adults by creating a sand dollar themed gift basket with Sandcastle brownies. I’ve been making this recipe since 8th grade and they do not disappoint! Grab the recipe for Sand Castle Brownies on our sister site 365 days of Recipes.
Make an easy beach craft for adults:
This gift basket is a great beach craft for adults and perfect for sharing your sandcastle brownies. The brownies are delicious and the gift jar can be reused too.
Supplies for beach craft for adults
- Americana Acrylic Paints (DecoArt): Spa Blue; Dark Chocolate
- Duraclear Varnish (DecoArt)
- White Wool Felt (National Nonwovens)
- Natural burlap
- Clear silver-lined seed beads, 6/0
- Rubber stamps: Italic Alphabet (Anna Griffin); Tiny Alphas (Hero Arts)
- Black pigment ink
- Lite Steam a Seam (The Warm Co.)
RECIPE BOOK:
- Melissa Francis Heart & Home Hinge Book (Heart & Home Collectibles), 8-1/2”x10”
- Basswood (Midwest Products), 1/8”x1/4” (#4046)
- Sup-R Easy Cutter (Midwest Products)
- Blue/brown damask cotton fabric
- Dark brown embroidery floss
GIFT JAR:
- Glass quart jar with lid
- Wooden acorn finial, 1-7/8”
- Cardstock: kraft; white
- Natural hemp, 36” length
- Natural jute, 8” length
- Layered jar mix ingredients (recipe)
- Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue (Duncan)
- Gray embroidery floss and embroidery needle
- Paper trimmer
beach craft for adults – Recipe Book
1. Use Sup-R Easy Cutter to cut two 5-1/2″ and two 5″ lengths from basswood. Paint strips Dark Chocolate and book Spa Blue.
2. Cut 4-3/4″ square from burlap; gently fray edges. Follow manufacturer’s instructions to fuse fabric and wool felt to fusible webbing. Cut 4″ square from fabric and fuse to burlap. Print and cut out pattern. Cut sand dollar from white wool felt and fuse to fabric.
3. Use floss to blanket stitch fabric edges to burlap and back-stitch center details to sand dollar. Blanket stitch edges and sew five seed beads to points of “star” on sand dollar.
4. Use italic alphabet stamps to stamp “recipes” on side of book. Glue strips in square in center and burlap square to center.
beach craft for adults – Gift Jar
1. Paint lid and finial Spa Blue and dry brush Dark Chocolate. Apply varnish. Glue finial to lid.
2. Cut sand dollar from white felt using same pattern from Recipe Book. Follow Step 3 from Recipe Book to embroider sand dollar. Glue sand dollar to jar.
3. Cut 1-3/4″x2-7/8″ rectangle from kraft cardstock and 1-1/2″x2-1/4″ rectangle from white cardstock. Glue rectangles together as shown. Stamp “sand dollar” and “brownies” on tag. Wrap jute around jar. Wrap hemp several times around top of tag and knot. Use hemp to tie tag to jar.
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