DIY Iron Man Gloves {Dollar Store Craft}
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Lately my son has been really into The Avengers, I mean can you blame him? So, I decided to come up with some fun Avengers themed crafts and recipes.
These DIY Iron Man Gloves have be my favorite thus far and since they are a unique idea (I haven’t seen them posted anywhere online yet) I thought I had to share it with you all!
In my opinion, the best crafts are those that are simple and inexpensive to make. Especially when they are kid crafts.
Why?
Because kids play hard and sometimes things get broken or lost. Part of the reason I love this craft so much is because they cost less than $5 to make! Crazy right?
I have to say that I really pondered on these Iron Man Gloves for awhile and I didn’t know how they’d turn out.
Once my son got dressed up in his Iron Man costume and put the gloves on, I knew I had really hit this project out of the park. Ever since we took pictures, he hasn’t taken off his costume or the gloves, yep this is kid approved!
Everything you need to create these gloves can be found at Dollar Tree (other than the fabric glue).
It costs $3 in supplies from Dollar Tree and another $2 (when you use the weekly 40% off coupon) to purchase the fabric glue at Hobby Lobby. So for a total of $5 you can make a pair of these!
Now onto the fun part…
DIY Iron Man Gloves
Supplies needed:
- Red Gloves (found down the socks isle at Dollar Tree)
- Red LED Push Lights (found down the hardware isle at Dollar Tree)
- 3 AAA batteries (found at Dollar Tree)
- Loctite Crafter’s Indoor-Safe Adhesive (this works best to adhere the plastic to the fabric)
Directions:
- Remove the lights from the packages and install the batteries in the back. Replace backing onto the light.
- Remove the sticker from the adhesive part of the back of the light. You will see the white foam piece exposed.
- Apply a generous amount of the adhesive to the white foam part on the light.
- Place the light directly on the inside of the glove. I found it easier to put the glove on my hand then apply the light where I wanted.
- Allow the adhesive to dry for a minimum of 45 minutes before allowing your children to play with it.
- Once dried, place the gloves on your children and let them be their own Iron Man!
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Iron Man Gloves
Materials
- Red Gloves found down the socks isle at Dollar Tree
- Red LED Push Lights found down the hardware isle at Dollar Tree
- 3 AAA batteries found at Dollar Tree
- Loctite Crafter’s Indoor-Safe Adhesive this works best to adhere the plastic to the fabric
Instructions
- Remove the lights from the packages and install the batteries in the back. Replace backing onto the light.
- Remove the sticker from the adhesive part of the back of the light. You will see the white foam piece exposed.
- Apply a generous amount of the adhesive to the white foam part on the light.
- Place the light directly on the inside of the glove. I found it easier to put the glove on my hand then apply the light where I wanted.
- Allow the adhesive to dry for a minimum of 45 minutes before allowing your children to play with it.
- Once dried, place the gloves on your children and let them be their own Iron Man!
Hello beautiful! So cool. Pinned and tweeted. I hope to see you on tonight at 7 pm because we love to party with you! Happy Memorial Day! Lou Lou Girls
How creative and they turned out great! Happy to be co-hosting with you at #HomeMattersParty
Fantastic! What a brilliant idea and this little one surely is posing well to capture some Iron Man photos! Happy to be co-hosting the #homematters linky party with you!
How cool is this! My daughter will love to do this..she’s an iron man fan.
Thank you! I bet your daughter will love it!
Oh my gosh, my son and his friends would go nuts over this! So cute and so super simple! Thank you so much for sharing!
This is just adorable. My toddler would go crazy for this craft. He loves Iron Man!
Awh this is such a cool DIY! I can’t wait for little guy to want to dress up like this so I can get all crafty with costumes too 🙂
Oh how cute! What a great idea! I bet he is loving those! My daughter would love this!
Now, that idea is ingenious! My son would definitely love something like this.
that is brilliant, you are so creative! I am not crafty like you but admire those who does, kudos to you!
This looks very similar to the one in the movie. Kids would love to play around with these ironman gloves.
This look awesome, I had no idea that it became a great DIY Gloves. That is really amazing very creative.
What a great idea! It just shows ya how strong that adhesive is. My son would love this!
Oh my gosh this is an adorable craft! I love seeing all the new DIY crafts for Avengers that are popping up!
Hey that’s a really cool idea. I know kids are super excited about Iron Man and the Avengers right now.
Awww how cute is this, I love me the avengers and your craft has made me want to watch the movies again.
This is an AWESOME craft! I love that the gloves actually light up, it really transfers you into Iron Man <3
Oh how cute is this? I’m sure any Ironman and/or Avenger fan would be thrilled with these! Very cute and simple project, thanks!
wow.what a nice DIY. i dnt have kids at home but i can try this with my cousins for themSeems to be very nce activity to do with kids.Thanx for sharing
Those are super cute! Now that the Avengers hype is starting to die down, this is an awesome way to keep them relevant with the kids 🙂
This sounds like a great way to make your Avenger fan very happy and won’t cost you an arm and a leg either.