Kids love medals, and making up gold medals, just like the Olympians wear, will have your kids showing them off with pride. From creating them out of clay or aluminum lids; to edible ones made with Oreos, you and your kids will have fun crafting them together. These medals would be a great project to make at an Olympic-themed kids' party, too.
Have fun making these medals, and get ready to let the games begin!
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Go for the Gold: Olympic Medal Craft
Challenge your inner Olympic spirit with this gold medal craft. Your kids will love wearing this clay gold medal that they crafted. Read the steps for this project and have fun crafting.
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Aluminum Lid Gold Medal
Save aluminum lids, spray paint them gold, attach a ribbon and some stickers, and you've got one good looking medal! Everyone can be a winner with this craft!
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DIY Sparkly Olympic Medals
Reward your kids with these bronze, silver, and gold medals. They are sparkly which makes them that much better. These medals are really fun to make too.
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Modeling Clay Olympic Medals
These Olympic gold medals are made using baking soda modeling clay. Your kids are going to love experimenting with this craft and wearing their finished product.
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Make a Gold Medal
Don't these gold medals look super official? Go check out this awesome Olympic craft!
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Edible Oreo Olympic Medals
Have your gold medal and EAT it too! Oreos and Fruit by the Foot make the perfect supplies to craft these edible delicious gold medals.
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Olympic Rings Medal
Honey & Lime
While you can't eat this medal, Fruit Loops are used for the different color rings. This is an easy project for young children to help make. They'll have fun putting on the "Olympic rings" on the card stock.
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DIY Olympic Medals
Project Nursery
Simply made with cardboard, metallic paint, puffy paint, and ribbon, it's easy to make gold, silver, and bronze medals for kids to wear to represent their favorite champion while watching the games or competing in their own.
DIY Olympic Medals for the Next Generation of Champions from Project Nursery
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Plastic Lid Olympic Medals
Artful Parent
Save plastic lids (the tops of oatmeal boxes work well) for this project. Simply trace around the lid onto colored paper, cut out the circle and glue it onto the lid; then glue on the ribbon. Decorate the paper with first, second, and third place to get these medals ready.
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DIY Glittery Olympic Medals
U-Create Crafts
Canning lids sprayed with gold-colored glitter spray paint and red, white, and blue ribbon make some super cute and sparkly gold medals. These can also easily be made using silver and bronze spray paint, so you have all the Olympic medals on hand.
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Fun & Easy Olympic Medals
CBC
You might just have all you need right at your fingertips to make these medals. They are made with cardboard, aluminum foil, paint, a permanent marker for decorating, and ribbon.
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Paper Plate Medals
No Time for Flash Cards
These medals are made using paper plates, glitter paint, and ribbon. Super easy! Have a wide paintbrush on hand as this is a good project to do with a toddler.