Here is a project I did as a kid in a day camp in the late 1970's/early 1980's-Faux Leather Vase. I am amazed that many of the kids from an after school program or my own have not heard of or done this project before. Really easy project for the 7 and above crowd. Younger children can do this too but under supervision because of the shoe polish.
What you need:
1-bottle or jar (glass or plastic). I have used old/cleaned beer bottles, mayo/spaghetti sauce jars, mason jars, soda/water bottles (with labels removed)
Masking tape
Old style shoe polish in a tin/not a bottle.(You can find the shoe polish tins in any shoe dept. It runs about $2.75 at Wal-Mart. Believe me a little goes a very long way. I have seen three colors. Choose your favorite color. In this project, I am working with brown.)
Paper towels and/or soft polishing cloth
Directions:
1. Tear small pieces of masking tape and place pieces at various places and directions on bottle until bottle is covered. Make sure the tape pieces overlap. Don't place to many pieces of tape in one place. This will make your project clumpy and will not work with polish later.
2. Once bottle is covered with tape. Go over bottle and make sure all tape end pieces are laying flat.
3. Open up shoe polish tin. Take cloth or paper towel and rub polish in a circle about 3 times. Now gentle polish bottle in small circles until bottle is covered. Repeat this process until bottle is polished.
4. Let dry. Polish is not wet or very messy, but it can get on hands and furniture. I would suggest that you use newspaper or scrap paper on project work area. Have young children wear an old shirt over their clothes.
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