The I in Creativity: Flipflops

Today I will show you how to make flipflops like I made my sister for Christmas.

Before you start, you'll need a roll of shelf liner (has to feel like rubber or a yoga mat etc), a BUNCH of hot glue sticks and a hot glue gun, like 1/8 of a yard of stretchy fabric, like swimsuit dance material, or stretch knit like I used, scissors and an Xacto knife, a pair of flipflops to trace, a marker, optional painters tape, and a bunch of time!

To begin, trace your shoes onto the contact paper. If you don't want to get marker onto your shoes, put painters tape around the perimeter of the shoes and trace them. You will want to do this at least three times, because the more layers you trace, the stronger your shoes will be. Now, cut all of the pieces out. This is drastically important, because if they are uneven, it will look so bad. That's why I reccomend using an Xacto knife.

Once they are all cut out, take one for the left foot and one for the right foot and cut 2 slits for the part in between the toes. Put your foot on the shoe, and cut a slit in between your big toe and 2nd toe, then cut another slit a little bit above that. Now, cut the fabric pretty thin, probably like an inch or two wide and pull it half way in one hole and out the other so both ends are on the same side. Now hot glue all of the layers together, with the one with the fabric on top. When you get to gluing the center, pull the ends of the fabric tight underneath the top layer and cut the ends of the fabric so it doesn't bulk it up. Glue the top layer down over it. Once all of the shoes are glued, use even more hot glue to add little grips onto the bottom by gluing waves onto it.