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Tuesday, February 2nd in LaPorte County, Indiana

A Marvelous Motor-Car
Youll need:
Two clean and dry juice or milk boxes Some thin, flexible wire Four matching bottle caps Modeling clay Scissors A magic marker Adhesive tape Paint

How to build it:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Draw the front and the windows of your car on one of the empty boxes. Cut along the lines youve drawn. Ask an adult for help, if you need to. To complete the front of the car, cut out the side of the second box. Then fold it and attach it to the front opening with adhesive tape. Cut open the front window. Paint the car with your favorite color. Make two small holes near the bottom of each side for the wires that will hold the wheels together. Make a hole in the center of each of the four caps. (Ask an adult for help, if you need to.) Run a piece of wire through a cap, then through two facing holes on the cars sides. Place another cap on the other end of the wire. Do the same for the other two wheels. Cover the wire ends with little balls of modeling clay. Step on the gas! Full speed ahead!

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Use your imagination: You can use juice boxes or milk container to make all sorts of vehicles. Try making a train with small bottle caps, a bus with medium size caps, or use really big bottle caps to make a tractor!

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Tuesday, February 2nd in LaPorte County, Indiana

Letter Perfect Pencil Holder

Youll need:

A flat, round cheese box or two tops from boxes of oats with labels removed Cut out letters from magazine pages Several toilet paper and paper towel rolls

Paints and brushes Glue

How to build it:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Cut the toilet paper and paper towel rolls into different sizes. Glue three different size rolls to the top of the cheese box or oats lids. If youre using oats lids, make a few snips in the top piece. This will help it fit over the bottom piece. Paint the inside of the box on color, and the outside of the box with the rolls, another color. Decorate the holder by gluing on letters youve cut out of magazines. You can also decorate with designs made out of colored thread or string. Now place it on your desk, fill it up with supplies, and get down to work!

Use your imagination: You can decorate your holder with almost anything-cut out pictures of animals or people from magazines, cut up old photos; or use stickers or glitter glue for another cool look!

A FotoFish Fun Frame

Youll need:

A Styrofoam tray Colored tissue paper Glue stick Varnish

How to build it:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Draw the fish on the tray and cut it out. The fish should be a little smaller than the photograph you want to frame. Cut different-colored tissue paper into little pieces. Using glue stick, glue both sides of the tissue paper to tray so that they overlap a little. Also cover the fish cut-out, which will serve as the frames stand. After youve covered the frame and the fish, varnish both. Let the pieces dry, then glue the fish to the back and use it to hold up the frame.

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Attach the photo to the back of the frame with adhesive tape. Pretty fishy, isnt it?

Use your imagination: You can cut out any kind of shape to make your frame. Try a star, a sun, a flower, or make a bunch or smaller openings for a multi-photo frame.

What You Need:

sticks in various sizes acorn tops smooth rocks in different sizes hot glue gun (parents must do this!) square or rectangular scrap of wood matte acrylic spray sealer small woodsie sign black fine tip craft pen

For natural: wiggle eyes

For colorful: stylus or toothpick paintbrush household sponge acrylic paint (in forest green, olive green, light brown, cream, light blue, light green, red, blue, orange, yellow, pink, purple, black, and white)

What You Do:

Safety note: Parents should handle the glue gun as temperatures can get very hot and cause uncomfortable burns. Allowing older children to use the glue gun is entirely up to the parent, but child should always be supervised! Natural: Begin by making sure the ends of the sticks are fairly flat. You can do this by simply smooshing the ends against the sidewalk. Use hot glue gun to adhere the sticks to the block of wood, then glue the acorn tops to the top of each stick. Wash all the rocks and be sure they are dry before gluing on wiggle eyes. Glue the rocks to the wood in various places. Write the words "Bug Village" on a small woodsie sign and glue to the front of the piece of wood as shown in photo. Colorful: Paint the block of wood with forest green paint. When dry, sponge on some olive green paint to the forest green. Paint the sticks with light brown paint. Paint some of the acorn tops with light blue and the rest with light green. Glue the sticks to the wood, then glue the acorn tops to the sticks. Wash all the rocks and be sure they are dry before you paint them. use various colors to paint the rocks: blue, red, purple, pink, green, etc. Use the stylus or toothpick to dot on spots and/or lines to your bugs. Dot on white spots for eyes, and a smaller black dot onto the white spot. Glue rocks in place when they are dry. Create a sign by painting a small woodsie sign with cream paint, then shade the edges with light brown. Use black fine tip craft pen to write "Welcome to Bug Village" in the center. The natural Bug Village is perfect for a boy's room while girls will adore the colorful bugs!

RECYCLING CRAFTS FOR KIDS: CUTLERY WIND CHIMES

Lesson Written by: KinderArt Items to Recycle: (Plastic Cutlery and Paper Plates)

What You Need:

To create wind chimes, simply gather: some plastic cutlery a paper plate a sharp pencil a pair of scissors some string or yarn

What You Do:

First, cut the string into lengths from 4" to 6". Then, tie the string to the ends of the cutlery. Next poke some holes into the paper plate, thread the string through and tie a knot in each piece. Finally, fasten three pieces of string to the top of the plate. Optional: decorate the paper plate with crayons, paint, markers or paper.

Leaves (all shapes, all sizes, all colors). Small twigs. Glue. Scissors. Construction paper (diffferent colors).

What You Do:

1. Have a look at a small pile of leaves to see if their shapes suggest heads, arms, bodies etc. 2. Choose some leaves that resemble people parts and glue the shapes down on construction paper. You may need to do some cutting and rearranging to come up with a pleasing shape. 3. If you have the leaves (and the time) you could create a huge leaf person by drawing out a body shape and gluing leaves all over to fill in the shape.

4. You can use twigs and construction paper scraps to add details to your leaf person.

Using magazines or photos, you can achieve an effect similar to mosaics formed of glass, clay or stone.

What You Need:

Magazines or photos Scissors Paper (bristol board works best) Paint (optional) White glue

What You Do:

1. Cut out small pieces of magazines or photos. Select related colours and start piles of reds, greens, blues etc. 2. Draw a picture or design onto the paper. Its a good idea to refer to pictures of mosaics. 3. Begin adding the pieces of magazines and photos to create a mosaic. 4. Remember to take time to plan out your ideas and don't be afraid to experiment

RECYCLING CRAFTS FOR KIDS: MINI VASE

Lesson Written by: KinderArt Items to Recycle: (Paper (or Plastic) Drinking Cups)

What You Need:

To make a mini-vase, simply gather: three plastic or paper cups glue tissue paper or fabric some sand or pebbles

What You Do:

First, place a cup on a table and fill it halfway with sand or pebbles. Next, glue a second cup to the first, top to top. Then, glue a third cup to the second, bottom to bottom. Finally, to decorate, glue small pieces of torn tissue paper all over the cups.

NYLON SNAKE
Grade: 2-4 Age: 5-9

Here's a way to use up those colourful plastic cups & plates used at birthday parties and school events.

What You Need:

Colorful plastic cups (20 or so per student ... if you have less, that's ok, the snake will just be smaller).

Pantihose leg (make sure no one needs it anymore). Newspaper. Colorful plastic plates (2 per student). Paper Fasteners (you can just use hot glue instead). Pen, awl or other sharp instrument for poking holes. Scissors. Fishing line (if you have it).

What You Do:

1. Using the pen (or an awl - with an adults help) punch a hole in the base of each cup. 2. Thread the cups onto the pantihose leg through the holes you have punched. To space the cups, put a piece of balled up newspaper into each cup after it is threaded. 3. To make the snake's head, cut the rim of a plastic plate. 4. Punch two small holes for the eyes. 5. Punch a large hole at the edge of the plate between the eyes and thread the pantihose through this hole. 6. Thread the pantihose through the base of another cup which will be the mouth. Tie a knot in the end of the pantihose. 7. Cut the base off two plastic cups to make eyes. Attach the eyes to the paper plate head using either paper fasteners or hot glue. 8. Cut a triangular piece for a tail, punch a hole in it and fasten it to the end of the snake's body. 9. You can attach fishing line to the snake and hang it from the ceiling.