Sorority Craft: Gift Baskets for Little or Big

Make your little sister a sorority gift basket and fill it with anything you like to make it more special.

You can use any basket for this idea, but chipped wood baskets work particularly well.
The colorful liner for the basket is made from a scrap of fabric. The tag is made from acid free scrapbooking cardstock.
Be creative with your tag. It can be as simple as your Greek letters applied with a marker, or you can use the idea above.... using your mascot as your design.



Tag Design Ideas:
1. Rubber stamp of mascot or sorority flower colored with pastel pencils
2. Sticker of your mascot, symbol, or flower
3. Cut out your mascot, symbol, or flower from a greeting card that you have saved
4. Draw and paint your own design

It doesn't take long to make your tag, and if you mess up, just start over

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Basket Tag Idea for Chi Omega or Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority Sister

Basket Tag Idea for Phi Mu or Alpha Delta Pi Sorority Sister

Make a Handpainted Delta Zeta Picture Frame with Turtle

This Delta Zeta Picture frame was made as a sample for this blog.

You Can Make One!!

Here is a hand-crafted gift that is easy to make for a sorority gift.

Recycle a picture frame and make it into a very special Big Sister/Little Sister sorority gift.

Here are some TIPS to get you started:

This picture frame was already painted olive green.

If the frame you have available is not the color that you want, or if it is scratched, etc. in need of paint.....simply paint it with acrylic paint which is available for less than one dollar. The black foam "brushes" work great for a project like this one and they, too, are very inexpensive.

I used some acid free white cardstock paper to sketch a little turtle. I colored him with colored pencils and then cut him out. I glued him to the mat that was already a part of my frame.

Try to use what you have, but you can buy different colored mats in standard sizes at craft stores.

The rest of the design is painted with acrylic paints onto the frame and then sprayed with crystal clear varnish (varnish is optional, but helps to preserve your work)

If you are not confident using paintbrushes, you can use paint pens for a very good effect. Practice the way you are going to write, first on paper before you actually paint or write on your frame. This helps prevent an undesired outcome.

Embellish your written design with some little hand painted flowers. Use the end of the paint brush to dip in the paint to make the dots of the flower. Then add stems and leaves with green paint. These, too, can be painted with paint pens if you don't like to use paintbrushes.

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Chi Omega Owl for Your Little Sister

Would you like to learn how to make an owl into a very special representative for Chi Omega?

Directions for adding a Chi Omega necklace to a plush owl.


THIS HAS ALREADY SOLD. Thanks for looking!

This is a one of a kind Chi Omega Owl assortment only available April 23-30. Get ready for next year!! LAST ONE!- the owl with the necklace is the only one I will ever have for sale.

(NOTE:I only have a few sorority items with the letters already painted on. When they are all gone, I will only be taking special orders for painted letters. I hope to continue painting owls on special gifts, but the letters will only be added by custom order due to licensing requirements.)

Georgia Southern Phi Mu Ladybug Gift Idea

Any Phi Mu sorority sisters from Georgia Southern?

If so, you will enjoy this post featuring a gift idea with your local mascot, the ladybug.

This is a matted picture of a ladybug with the saying,
"Phi Mu is full of bugs and kisses"

DIRECTIONS: for Phi Mu Ladybug matted picture (hand-drawn and hand-painted)
See picture at top of post.

• You need a basic mat-this one is 5" X 7" with a round opening, but a rectangle will work, too.
• Actually, a pink mat would be prettiest if you can find one.
• Use any kind of art paper or even cardstock.
• With a pencil, lightly draw your ladybug (it will probably turn out better than you expect!)
• If you mess up, just erase and continue until you are happy with the drawing.
• Use water color paints or colored pencils or even crayons to lightly color your drawing.
• Use a fine sharpie pen or a scrapbooking fine felt tip pen to outline your drawing and to add the Phi Mu saying.
• Tape your painting to the back of the mat AND it is ready to give to your big or little sister.

Ladybug earrings for Phi Mu and Alpha Sigma Alpha

Stuffed ladybug mascots

Kappa Delta Teddy Bear with Handmade Necklace

When you make a gift for someone you love, you are giving something more than what a bought gift will deliver. You are giving of yourself, your time, your creativity. You can personalize details in your handmade gifts which makes your gift unique and meaningful to the receiver. Names and messages of friendship are easily added when you make little sister, big sister gifts.

Simple directions for making a personalized sorority necklace for your mascot

Hand Painted Chi Omega Owls-Crafts for Little

For those of you who are looking for ideas of things to make for you little or big sisters, here are some fun and easy ideas. You need an easy owl design to draw & paint. The possibilities are endless.


Julie