Boondoggle

Photo credit Rex Lace Club

What is boondoggle?  Boondoggle is also known as Gimp, lanyard, plastic lacing, or craft lace.  Whatever you call this stretchy plastic, here is a site with FREE patterns.

Boondoggle

Scoubidou

Rex Lace Club

Plastic Lacing (Scoubidou) Mega guide

Shoelace Patterns

Did you know that there are two trillion ways to lace a pair of shoes with six eyelets?  Here is a way to do a craft with campers that is no cost to you.

Photo courtesy of Ian's Shoelace site.

Ian's Shoelace Site

Beaded Buddies

Image courtesy of Beadie Buddy Bonanza.

Plastic lacing, pony beads and a campers imagination are all you need to make a fun and inexpensive craft.  Here are some FREE pony bead patterns.

Beadie Buddy Bonanza

Evelyn's Beadie Page

Margo's Beadie Critter Collection

Friendship Bracelets

Photo courtesy of best of the 80's.

Friendship bracelets are a summer camp staple.  This is a site that has FREE tutorials on making friendship bracelets.

Friendship Bracelets

Origami

These are a couple of my favorite FREE origami sites.

Origami Fun

Origami Instructions

How to Make a Sonobe Small Triambic Icosahedron (Modular Origami tutorial)