Homemade Custom Sticker Recipe for Kids Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking

Homemade Custom Sticker Recipe for Kids Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking

Make your own non-toxic custom stickers with three simple ingredients. These ingredients are cheap and easy to find. Look in the baking cabinet, I bet you can find the ingredients. The third ingredient comes from the faucet!

Parents know that Jell-O can be sticky, but did you know that you could use gelatin to make your own stickers?

Who Can Make the Homemade Custom Sticker Recipe for Kids Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking?

Kids of any age can make these custom stickers. This paper crafts recipe does need an adult's help because it uses hot water.

Younger kids will also need some materials prepared for them ahead of time, especially if they do not use scissors.

Ingredients for the Homemade Custom Sticker Recipe for Kids Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking

This is a simple recipe for making custom stickers.

one packet of flavored gelatin
two tablespoons of boiling water

Other Materials for the Homemade Custom Sticker Recipe for Kids Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking

small drawings cut into squares, circles or other fun shapes
color copies of photographs shrunk down to postage stamp size or bigger
pictures cut out of magazines of animals, natural objects and faces

one glass bowl
one pan for boiling water
one paint brush

Adults: Prepare the Paper Crafts Materials for Homemade Stickers

For younger children, parents will want to pre-cut fun shapes and pictures. See the materials list for ideas, or come up with your own.

Adults: Boil the Water

Adults will need to boil about 1/4 cup of water.

Tip: boil 1/4 cup and measure out the tablespoons from the hot water.

Kids Measure the Ingredients for the Stickers

While the adult is boiling the water, kids can pour the gelatin into a bowl. They can also measure and add the white sugar and stir it together.

Making the "Sticky" for the Stickers

An adult can add the boiling water to the bowl, and mix the ingredients, dissolving the sugar and the gelatin.

When the mixture has cooled, kids can use it to make stickers.

Making the Stickers

Kids can use the paint brush to paint the back of the image on the sticker.