I will keep a listing here of the common craft materials I give in supply lists for Bible craft projects. Most people do not need to read here, however it is a helpful post for those of you who speak an alternative language to English. Here you will read a specific description of materials so that you may acquire similar craft product in your own country that is referred to by alternative words and definitions.
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| Left, watercolor paints in a tray. Right colored pencils. |
Again, turn on the app (located on right sidebar) for your native language and read here for a detailed description of craft materials.
Construction paper: also known as sugar paper, is colored card stock paper. The texture is slightly rough, and the surface is unfinished. Due to the source material, mainly wood pulp, small particles are visible on the paper's surface. It is used for projects or crafts.
Scissors: are hand-operated shearing tools. A pair of scissors consists of a pair of metal blades pivoted so that the sharpened edges slide against each other when the handles (bows) opposite to the pivot are closed. Scissors are used for cutting various thin materials, such as paper, cardboard, metal foil, cloth, rope, and wire. A large variety of scissors and shears all exist for specialized purposes. (Use blunt end scissors for younger children.)
Stapler: a mechanical device that joins pages of paper or similar material by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and folding the ends. Staplers are widely used in government, business, offices, work places, homes and schools.
Paint for Young Students:
- Most acrylic paints are water-based, but become water-resistant when dry. Depending on how much the paint is diluted with water, or modified with acrylic gels, mediums, or pastes, the finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor, a gouache, or an oil painting, or have its own unique characteristics not attainable with other media.
- Watercolor is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
- Tempera also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long-lasting, and examples from the first century AD still exist. Egg tempera was a primary method of painting until after 1500 when it was superseded by oil painting. A paint consisting of pigment and binder commonly used in the United States as poster paint is also often referred to as "tempera paint", although the binders in this paint are different from traditional tempera paint.
Crayons: (or wax pastel) is a stick of pigmented wax used for writing or drawing. Wax crayons differ from pastels, in which the pigment is mixed with a dry binder such as gum arabic, and from oil pastels, where the binder is a mixture of wax and oil.
Paint Brushes: is a brush used to apply paint or sometimes ink. A paintbrush is usually made by clamping the bristles to a handle with a ferrule. They are available in various sizes, shapes, and materials. Thicker ones are used for filling in, and thinner ones are used for details. They may be subdivided into decorators' brushes used for painting and decorating and artists' brushes use for visual art.
Palette: Watercolor palettes are generally made of plastic or porcelain with rectangular or wheel format with built in wells and mixing areas for colors.
Ice cube tray: Ice cube trays are designed to be filled with water, then placed in a freezer until the water freezes into ice, producing ice cubes. Ice trays are often flexible, so the frozen cubes can be easily removed by flexing the tray. (Used as alternative paint palettes for children that are washable.)
Pencils: A pencil is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core encased in a sleeve, barrel, or shaft that prevents breaking the core or marking a user's hand.
- Most pencil cores are made of graphite powder mixed with a clay binder. Graphite pencils (traditionally known as "lead pencils") produce grey or black marks that are easily erased, but otherwise resistant to moisture, most chemicals, ultraviolet radiation and natural aging.
- Unlike graphite and charcoal pencils, colored pencils' cores are wax- or oil-based and contain varying proportions of pigments, additives, and binding agents. Water-soluble (watercolor) pencils and pastel pencils are also manufactured as well as colored cores for mechanical pencils.
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| Left, fruit cartons made from recycled cardboard. Right, paper bags, the one on top has gusseted bottom. |
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| Left, corrugated cardboard. Right, ice cube tray for paints. |
Elmer's white school glue: Over the next few decades, Elmer's focused on expansion of adhesive products for school and home, in addition to developing a variety of hardware sealants, compounds, and caulks. In 1968, Elmer's introduced Elmer's School Glue, the first white glue that washed out of clothes. Soon, Elmer's Glue-All and School Glue would contain the same ingredients, but each retained its different packaging.
Mod Podge: is a water-based sealer used to preserve decoupage. It is non-toxic and used often for children's craft projects.
Cardboard: (paper tubes, sheets, boxes) is a generic term for heavy-duty paper-based products having greater thickness and superior durability or other specific mechanical attributes to paper; such as foldability, rigidity and impact resistance. The construction can range from a thick sheet known as paperboard to corrugated fiberboard which is made of multiple corrugated and flat layers.
Paper egg cartons: (also known as an egg box in British English) is a carton designed for carrying and transporting whole eggs. (Alternative for paint palette that is for easy clean-up, just let the left-over paint harden and then throw the whole carton into the trash bin.)
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| Left, toilet roll tubes. Right, paper tubes that once had wrapping paper, tin foil or plastic wrap spun around them. |
Masking tape: also known as painter's tape, is a type of pressure-sensitive tape made of a thin and easy-to-tear paper, and an easily released pressure-sensitive adhesive. It is available in a variety of widths. It is used mainly in painting, to mask off areas that should not be painted.
Newsprint: is a low-cost, non-archival paper consisting mainly of wood pulp and most commonly used to print newspapers and other publications and advertising material.
Small brown or white gusseted paper bags: These bags are often used in the United States to pack student lunches when these are taken from home. The bags are light weight, not waterproof and often made from recycled materials. Bags are sold in bulk from most all grocery stores.
Disposable paper plates, cups and bowls: are made in molds in a factory using compressed paper pulp.
Wooden tongue depressors or Popsicle sticks: (6 inch) is a tool used in medical practice to depress the tongue to allow for examination of the mouth and throat. The most common modern tongue depressors are flat, thin, wooden blades, smoothed and rounded at both ends, but, historically, tongue depressors have been made of a variety of materials. Since they are inexpensive and difficult to clean because of their porous texture, wooden tongue depressors are labeled for disposal after a single usage.
I will add more supplies and definitions of these, as needed.
