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Coffee Can Nesting Dolls:
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Materials:
- 1 large recycled coffee can - with lid
- 1 medium recycled roasted peanut can - with lid
- 1 small recycled vegetable can - no lid
- Heavy white paper
- Colorful markers
- Fine-tipped black permanent marker
- Scissors
- Clear adhesive tape
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Instructions:
- Make sure that each can is empty and clean. Carefully remove the original can wrapping, if possible.
- Cut a rectangular-strip of the heavy white paper to the height of each can.
- On each paper, draw a round girl face, with rosy cheeks. Draw a scarf around each face. Draw the scarf tie under the face's chin. Draw flowers and other bright designs for the dress.
- Carefully trace over your pencil drawings with a black permanent marker.
- Next, use the colored markers and brightly color in each of your drawings.
- Turn your empty cans upside down.
- Once the drawings are complete, wrap each drawing around its respective can. Be sure the can is upside down to the drawing.
- Secure the drawings with clear tape.
- Now you can stack the dolls from smallest to largest. Use the lids to keep the dolls in place when stacked.
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Materials:
- Different pasta shapes - bows, spirals, shells, wheels, etc.
- Small, Plain-colored cardboard box - with lid
- Gold poster paint
- Clear varnish, or nail polish
- Strong Glue
- Newspaper
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Instructions:
Preparing The Pasta:
- Spread the newspaper to protect your work surface.
- Paint the tops of the pasta with the gold poster paint. Let the paint dry.
- Once the tops are dried, turn the pasta over and paint the backs with the gold poster paint. Let paint dry.
- When the paint is completely dry, apply a thick layer of clear nail polish on the tops of the pasta. Let the nail polish dry.
- Next, apply polish to the backsides of the pasta. Again, allow the polish to dry.
Now the pasta is prepped and ready for your jewelry box.
Assembling The Jewelry Box:
- If you don't have a plain-colored cardboard box and top, then paint over an appropriately sized box with a solid color. Allow the box to dry.
- Next, arrange the pasta on the box to get some idea of how you want them glued in place.
- Spread glue on the box a small area at a time. Apply the golden pasta.
Be sure to arrange the different pasta shapes into elaborate and intricate designs!
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Fancy Cold-Weather Soup In a Jar:
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Materials:
- Mixed dried soup beans
- Colored posterboard
- Adhesive-backed stencil paper
- Recycled spaghetti jars
- Masking tape
<1i>Glitter, fancy markers
- Red or pink nail polish
- Salt
- White glue
- Hole punch
- Colored ribbon
- Scissors
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Instructions:
Prepare The Jar:
- Make sure that the jar is completely clean and dry.
- Take your stencil paper and cut out a simple shape. A heart is a nice choice for this project.
- Apply the stencil design to the front face of the jar.
- Next, take the red nail polish and paint over the stencil to transfer the design onto the jar.
- While the nail polish is still wet, quickly sprinkle salt over the wet shape.
- Remove the adhesive backed stencil. Allow the nail polish to dry.
Finishing the Jar:
- Fill the decorated jar with the mixed dried beans.
- Decorate the lid of the jar with glue and some of the dried beans. Cover the top of the lid with glue. Attach beans to the glue in a decorative pattern. Completely cover the lid with beans.
- To finish the lid edge, first cover the lid edge with glue. Cut a piece of ribbon to length, and press it all the around the edge, into the glue.
The Cold Weather Soup Recipe:
- Cut out 16cm x 10cm (6in. x 4in.) rectangle of colored posterboard.
- Using colored markers, write out the "Cold Weather Soup" recipe below... Write the recipe in a decorative writing style.
- You can even draw and color shapes and pretty curly-cues along the edges of the posterboard card.
- Punch a hole in the corner of the posterboard cards. String a length of ribbon through the hole. Attach to the finished bean soup jar.
Follow this cold weather soup recipe link.
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