Craft foam is a smooth, flexible crafting material that comes in a variety of shapes and sizes. It comes in a variety of colors, including red, green, light blue, dark blue, tan, yellow, orange, brown, and pink, as well as black and white. It can be used to create a variety of colorful accessories, including holiday and party decorations, as well as children’s craft projects.
Craft foam in various shapes and sizes, such as ovals, circles, triangles, and squares, is sold in mixed colors in packages of 250 or 500 pieces. These are great for kids to use because they can easily hold the pieces in their hands and glue them to a piece of colored cardboard or craft foam to make colorful artwork. Flowers, leaves, animals, and an endless number of other creations can be made with felt marking pens or markers and a little imagination. Some foam shapes are self-adhesive, which is ideal for craft projects with younger children because it eliminates the need for messy glue.
There are theme bags of detailed craft foam pieces sold for children’s projects, in addition to packages of mixed plain geometrical shapes. Peel and stick dinosaurs in various colors or multicolor sea life shapes are two examples. The shapes can be applied to cardboard or sheets of foam, along with drawings and other foam shapes that the children make.
Craft foam sheets are frequently cut into shapes older children and adults to make festive decorations. Foam sheets in orange and black, for example, can be cut out to make pumpkins and bats for Halloween decorations. Small pieces of white and red foam could be cut into circles and glued on the bat shapes for eyes, while a black felt marker could be used to draw facial features on the pumpkin shape. Clear fishline could be inserted into the holes made with scissors on the tops of the pieces so that they could be hung from the ceiling, such as above a table of food, to create a festive look for a Halloween party.
Foam sheets are also commonly used to make door hangers, book covers, and book marks. Cut letters from the foam to use on banners, such as to create a message such as “Happy Birthday, Sarah.” Foam stamps can be made from the sheets carefully placing cut out shapes in paint and then pressing the image onto a project. Craft foam sheets come in a variety of thicknesses and finishes, including matte, gloss, and glitter.