Kids Placemats Crafts

In personalized placemats, kids can put their favorite photos or cartoon figures pictures along with their favorite sayings and drawings.

Take a look at this personalized placemats created by Chelsey from Canada who shared her placemats crafts idea. Visit the following link for more choices of fancy personalized placemats!

Another fun idea is kids can also create personalized placemats for every different holiday; Mother's Day, Father's Day, Thanksgiving, etc. A placemat for Mother's Day, for instance, can be made by collaging their favorite photos with Moms and decorat it with famous quotes or poems for Moms.

~ Tools and Materials ~

These tools and materials are the most essential ones in making a personalized kids placemats:
- Cardboard or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Clear Contact Paper

~ Decorations ~
To decorate the placemats, you can use almost everything that is used in making a greeting card or scrapbook, just use your imaginations! Also think of your kids' favorite cartoon figures, colors, or other stuffs that they like!
- Color markers
- Crayons
- Kids' photos
- Cut images from old magazines
- Decorative or wrapping paper
- Dry flowers or leaves
- Thin ribbons, etc.

Also don't forget the most important one: the laminating machine!

Here's what you have to do to make a personalized kids placemat!

1. Cut the cardboard or construction paper into a rectangle with the size of regular placemat.
2. Cut photos, cartoon figures from magazines, and other pictures that reflect the kids' hobbies or likings.
3. Arrange the photos and pictures then glue them to the paper.
4. Add more decorations; quotes, names, drawings, or dry flowers into the paper.
5. Cover the paper with clear contact paper on its both sides.
6. Laminate the placemat using a laminating machine and get out as many air bubbles as you can.
7. Round off the corners using scissors.

Fellowes Saturn SL 125 Home & Office Laminator

Fellowes Saturn SL 125 12.5" Office Laminator is designed for home or home office and small office. It is user-friendly designed with plenty of laminating possibilties with minimal adjustment. Designed for letter or taboid-size applications up to 9" and 12" wide. Heats up in just 6 minutes and completes a letter-size lamination inless than 1 minute. Safe and comfortable to touch "HeatGuard Technologh". Advanced temperature control for consistent lamination quality. Anti-jamming release lever.

With activity placemats, kids can have a fun meal time! Because this type of placemat includes table top activities that kids can enjoy doing; drawing, coloring, maze puzzles, and decorating placemats figures with stickers.

How is it possible? This is why: the surface of the placemats is writable and erasable, so kids can write it with color markers and erase it again when they have finished their meal. The smooth surface of the placemats also enables kids to apply stickers to it.

You can also make an activity placemat; instead of putting photos and decorations on the construction paper or cardboard, you can draw a maze puzzle, paper doll, or black and white pictures to be colored. Otherwise, if you don't feel great at drawing, you can print a maze puzzle for kids, paper dolls, or coloring pictures out of a computer then glue them on the placemat paper or cardboard.

Doodles at Lunch: 36 Tear-Off Placemats

Liven up lunchtime with these placemats, which teach kids how to turn an A into an Alligator, a Z into a Zebra, and a number 9 into a hot air balloon. This placemat has tear-off pads that you can change everyday when you need a new one.

Good To Go! Placemat Activity Set

Are eating out with your family? This is a set of 48 placemat with fun activities that can be done by the whole family. Connecting the dots, finishing mazes, answering riddles and word searches, are some of the activities available in the placemats. All you do is peel the placemats off the hard-backed pad and there'll instantly be enough activities to accompany the kids in mealtime.

36 Color-and-Learn Placemats

Meet Greenie, a new mealtime mascot for young diners everywhere. With 36 full-color placemats, Greenie helps little eaters choose from a rainbow of different fruits and vegetables. It's a fun way for kids to learn colors and what foods are delicious and nutritious. On the back of each placemat, the food is drawn in black line for coloring.

WordWorld Activity Placemats

This is the placemat from WordWorld Party Supplies collections! Check WordWorld Party Supplies for more fun!