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Indian Vest Paper Chains

Hand Flowers headbands

macaroni necklaces puppets

wood block houses Tambourines

Paint With Sponges art

Magic Wand town

twin juggling balls

Painter hats scrap puppets

centerpiece bird feeders

t-shirts bath salts

bookmarks brooches

note holder gift bags

BOOKMARKS II TIE RACK

STORAGE BOX SACHETS

Indian Vest

Take brown grocery bag and cut from middle of opening to bottom of bag, then cut circle in bottom of bag. Turn inside out. Cut holes on each side for arms. Fringe bottom. Color with crayons, write Indian name on back.

Paper Chains

Paper Chains - colored construction paper strips looped and glued or stapled together. You could also decorate the strips before putting them together (markers, paints, glitter, stamps).

Hand Flowers

1. Trace outlines of the child's hand on paper (probably painted by said child). 2. Cut out hand shapes
3. using a pencil roll the fingers up so that they curl up.
4.Curl the hand shape vertically into a sort of trumpet/lily shaped cylinder with the finger curls curling outwards.
5. Staple the flower onto a drinking straw, along with cutout leaves. Four or five of these make a nice bouquet.

Macaroni Necklaces

String colored macaroni onto lengths of yarn for necklaces

Headbands

Glue different things like feathers, macaroni, sparkles, etc onto
strips of construction paper to make headbands.

Wood Block Houses

On sections of cardboard of about 8"x8" glued/built houses out of small blocks of wood that someone had gathered at building site and cut into different sizes.

Paint with Sponges

Cut a bunch of sponges into shapes like triangles
butterflies etc. and let the kids dip them into paint and press
them onto to paper.

Magic Wand

Curling ribbon in multi colors , they let each kid cut
certain lengths of it then taped it on straws , for magic wands.

Puppets

You cut out butterflies, fish, dinosaurs, etc and get a bunch of tongue depressors. The kids can color the animals and use glue sticks/glitter. Then you stick them on the tongue depressors and they can use them for a "puppet" show.

Tambourines

Tambourines out of paper plates w/double stick tape along the edges and dried beans inside. Use a paper punch along the outside edges and thread ribbons through them. Kids can color the tambourines before they are assembled.

Art

Shred and tear up colored paper and ribbon (what little kid doesn't love doing that) and paper punch some too. Get a small clear acrylic frame from Target/Kmart and press the paper scraps between the frame and the cardboard
backing. Everyone's is different and can be changed for another look.

Town

Make their own "town" out of appliance boxes. Have them paint, color the exterior, a little each day.

Draw a twin

If you have a long roll of paper, you can trace your kids and they can draw themselves.

Painter Hats

Get Painter Hats from a local Paint Store.
Use markers, plain and colored glue, sparkles, feathers, stickers, etc. The kids will have fun and get a hat to take home.

Scrap Puppets

Scrap Puppets are fun, easy and quick to make.
Give an old sock a fresh look. Dress up a paper bag.
Paint a face on an old wooden spoon and decorate it.
To make finger puppets start with an old glove. Cut off the fingers. You now have 5 puppets ready to decorate.
Use buttons, beads and pom-poms to make eyes and noses.
Bottle caps and jar lids make hats or eyes or ears.
Metal pull tabs make wonderful mouths with the tongues already sticking out! Straws and pipe cleaners are great for whiskers and antennae. Hair can be fashioned from yarn, string and rope. Old jewelry, ribbons and feathers will give your puppet an exotic look. Shells can make interesting eyes or ears. Seaweed hair is stylish and smelly! Nuts, bolts, washers, hooks and springs are neat attachments for making robot puppets.

Juggling Balls

Fill small plastic bag with bird seed. Cut end off a balloon. Stretch it around the bag of seeds. Cut end of second balloon. Stretch it around the bag of seeds in opposite direction of first balloon.

Candle Centerpiece

Take tuna sized cans and fill them with colorful dried beans. Then put a candle in the middle and fill the can with white glue. It should take about 24 hours to set. Then tie a red ribbon around the base of the candle.

Bird Feeders

Make bird feeders with large pine cones spread with peanut butter and rolled in birdseed. Make sure you have the fishing line hanger on first. Place in recycled grocery/newspaper plastic bags for transporting home.

T-shirts

Make their own T-shirts with puff paint and white
t-shirts.

Bath Salts

Epsom salts
food coloring
fragrance (ex:scented oils)
Fill a baby food jar, label, and put a pretty covering on the jar lid.

Bookmarks

Cut two pieces of laminating film about 2 1/2" x 6".
Then place a 3/4" ribbon down the middle so that it came out
of the bottom of the film. then sprinkle it with glitter
confetti and stuck the two pieces of laminating film together.

Brooches

Cut pieces of thin cardboard into triangles and
squares and painted them gold. glue on colored
macaroni and then sprinkled it with glitter.
glue a pin on the back.

Note Holder

Here's an easy caterpillar that can be used to hold notes to the refrigerator. Glue small 1/2" pompoms to one flat side of a wooden clothes pin. Glue two eyes at the mouth of the clothes pin and glue a magnet to the other flat side.

Gift bags

Brown lunch sacks with Christmas stickers and red and green marker "art". Wrapping Paper A roll of plain white art paper cut into sheets and decorated with stamps, stickers, stencils, glitter or whatever.

Bookmarks II

Cut poster board into appropriate sizes and decorate, even
add a yarn tassel at the top. Old manila folders are great for this also.

Tie Rack

Tie rack - made out of a covered wire coat hanger

Storage Box

Take a shoe box and cover it with an attractive material (or wrapping paper) for a personalized storage box.

Sachets

Use potpourri filling little bags made of lace, hand sewn together. Heart shape is nice. Then stitch on ruffled edging, sew on a satin rose. Very pretty! Fill after stitching. Do use double or triple layers of thin lace to avoid leakage through the net.