Either you or your child can squeeze glue on the paper in a picture, design or letters. Then sprinkle colored sand on the glue and shake off excess. Let dry for 1/2 or so and you have a neat picture!

1. Draw a line around the middle of the cereal box. The line should be across the front and two sides of the box. Carefully cut alone this line.

   2) Fold the box in half so there is a place for your fingers and thumb.

   3) Cover the sides of the box with construction paper using glue.

   4) Lay the box flat on a piece of construction paper. Trace the outline of the box.

   5) Cut along the outline, and glue the paper to the box, this is the inside of the puppet’s mouth.

   6) Cut out other features as you desire, eyes, nose, tongue, ears, etc. Be creative. Add the features, and you have a puppet!

1. Adult: Punch a small hole in the center of the lids with the screwdriver or scissors.

   2) Place the lids back to back, with the “lips” of the lid facing out.

   3) Insert the brass brad through both lids. Tighten, and place cards in the space.

   4) Now play go fish with your kids and don’t worry about too many cards for their little hands!

Measure a piece of pipe cleaner to wrap around your finger, and leave some extra length to twist. Slide through button shank and twist ends Note: There are also many variations to this activity that you can make a neat bracelet by adding several buttons. You can also make a necklace by adding a few buttons on a string.

Cut a heavy piece of cardboard to the size of a placemat. Make a collage on the cardboard from the cards. Use two pieces of laminating paper (found at any office supply store) for the front and back of the placemat.

1. Stir together salt and flour, add enough water to form a clay like mixture, should be a little softer than play dough but not runny or sticky. Pat out small pieces of mixture on cookie sheet and cut into shapes (circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares) with the toothpick. Also make small balls to use as beads between the shapes.
2. Use toothpick to put a good-sized hole in each piece. (Big enough to get the embroidery thread through.)
3. Bake in oven on middle rack 1 hour at 200 degrees. Can take up to 2 hours if pieces are thick.

   Remove from oven and let cool.

4. Paint pieces with watercolors, let dry then string them on the embroidery thread. Tie it big enough to just barely get over child’s wrist.

1. Draw a picture of a giraffe on the piece of cardboard, however big you need it.
2. Cut up the bark into small pieces, and then glue it one by one onto some cardboard (as the spots).
3. Break or cut small pieces of grass (thin and dry) and stick them sticking outwards on the back of the giraffe (as a mane). Glue some grass or sand under its feet. Glue a leaf in its mouth.
4. You could paint it a dirty yellowish color first, before putting on the bark spots.

1. Have the children decorate the top and front of their box. When done measure each child’s back to properly place the holes for the rope. You will need two strands of rope for each child. Different children require different sizes, usually about 12-18 inches each rope. The rope will serve as the child’s straps for the backpack, so you want to be sure to place the ropes so that the child can wear the backpack safely.

   You may want to measure before they decorate.

2. After you have measured, place the fours holes accordingly. You may want to use a knife or scissors to cut the holes. You will need a total of four holes that look like this:
3. Thread one rope through a top hole and a bottom hole and tie together leaving the knot inside the box.

   And then do the other side.

4. When finished this box makes a great backpack for walks and field trips.