1. Paper-Copters
What you need:
What you do:
Fold a 1 inch by 10 inch strip of paper in half. Fold the ends down about two inches to make an angle, not straight down. Push a paper clip onto the bottom. Decorate for paper-copter with markers or crayons. To fly them, hold it by the paper clip and throw it into the air.
2. Fashion Jewelry
What you need:
What you do:
Color several drinking straws with permament markers. Cut them into 1/4, 1/2, and 1 inch lengths. Cut some shapes out of the foam meat trays. Decorate the shapes with markers, then punch a whole in the center of each foam bead using the tip of a pencil. String your straws and beads onto the yarn. {You may want to tape one end to make it easier to thread} Then once you got all the beads you want, tie the ends together into a bow.
3. Mystery Box
What you need:
What you do:
Tape the lid to the box and cut a whole on one end large enough to fit your hand through. Cover the whole with paper and cut 8 slits in the paper forming a star shape, so that you can put your hand in with the hole still covered. Decoarte the box with markers.
Now put in your mystery object, remember that your friends or family trust you so nothing that can hurt them. Make up a poem or riddle to go with the object. Write it on an index card an put it on top of the box.
Let your friends put their hands in to try and guess what it is, after all have had a turn, pull the object out for all to see.
4. Pasta Ornaments
What you need:
What you do:
Cover your work surface with waxed paper. Mix some water and one color food coloring together in small bowl. Repeat for other colors. Dip 7 pasta wheels and 6 elbow macaroni pieces in alternating colors. Let all pasta peices dry.
Arrange pasta wheels into a circular pattern with one in center. Apply glue to the sides of the wheels and glue them together. Glue the elbow macaroni around the circle of pasta wheels. Glue a piece of ribbion to the top to form a hanger.
5. Perfectly 'POP'ing
What you need:
What you do:
On a small piece of paper, write a thank you message to the person you want to Thank or send a special message to. Roll the paper into a scroll and tie it eith a bit of ribbion. Carefully place into uninflated balloon. Also put in confetti. Blow up the balloon, tie it off, and tie curling ribbion to the end of it. Write POP ME on the balloon with a marker. Deliver the balloon and wait for the BANG.
6. Coupon Book
What you need:
What you do:
Make a cover for your book out of construction paper by folding it in half and cutting the shape out being careful not to cut on the fold. It can be any shape as long as it is large enough to write your coupons on. Fold three pieces of printer paper together. Trace your shape onto the top piece of paper, and cut it out. Write a promise or coupon on each page - serious or silly. Decorate the pages with pictures to illustrate your promise. Insert pages into cover and staple the spine.