Hopscotch Art

J loves hopping and jumping.  She'll jump from area rug to area rug in the kitchen. She jumps on her bed. She bounces off the walls.


via my cell phone - September 2010


I've been wanting to make her a hopscotch rug out of one of the old runners I have in our hallway but haven't found the time to get started on it.  While sorting through some old scrap booking stickers, I found some square stickers that I decided to hold on to despite not ever using them before.  I figured Jenin could always play with them when I need her to sit down for some quite art time.

Well just last week, a hopscotch image popped up on TV and I instantly found a use for those unused square stickers.  Seriously, inspiration hits at the most random times.

So I gathered up my supplies and got to work.

A frame that I've had for years and years, white card stock (or any color you want), square stickers, white vinyl signage stickers.

Well, when I sat down to start I wasn't feeling the colors of the square stickers and the numbers were too large to fit in a way that I liked.  Moving on to plan B.

Reassembling of the supplies: Large square craft punch, card stock in Jenin's favorite rainbow colors, and a rounded edge cutter.

The squares were too large to fit as is in the mat's 8x10 opening. (I didn't have paper large enough to use without the use of the mat.) There would have only been about 5 squares and I wanted to include as many as possible.  So I cut them down.

Then I rounded them off.  Love this little tool.

Then I placed the numbers on.

Then glued them down in the easily distinguishable hopscotch manner.  I loved how the colors popped off of the white, but I didn't like the white mat on the white card stock.  So I painted it a sky blue.

Isn't it adorable?  I think so.  It took less than half an hour to complete.  Love quick and easy projects.

Want to create your own? Hop to it!  (sorry that was corny)