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Home-Made Sidewalk Chalk

Materials Needed:


1 Cup Plaster of Paris
1 Cup Water
Powdered Tempera Paint


Instructions:


Find a mold for your sidewalk chalk. You can use small paper cups, toilet tissue rolls, candy molds, etc.
Mix the Plaster of Paris and the water together. For colored chalk, add powdered tempera paint to achieve the color you want. Let stand for a few minutes and then pour into mold.

Set side and let dry completely. This can take anywhere from several hours to a few days depending on the size of the mold you chose. Once dry, remove the chalk from the mold. If it is still moist, let air dry for another 24 hours.

Home-Made Crayons Recipe

Materials Needed:


Crayon Pieces
Foil


Instructions:

Line muffin pan cups with foil. Spray the foil very lightly with non-stick cooking spray (this is not 100% necessary, but it does make the crayons a bit easier to remove). Break crayons into tiny piece, an inch or less long. Fill the muffin pan cups with the crayon pieces. Fill each cup with like colors ore experiment with mixing colors. Put the muffin tin in a 300 degree oven, and leave in there until all the crayon pieces are melted. Remove from oven and let cool. Once cooled you can pop out your crayons and try them out!

Pinwheels

What you need:

Strong construction paper or wallpaper
Long dressmaking pin
Penny
Pencil with an eraser or a thin dowel
Crayons or felt pens
Stickers

What you do:

1.Cut the paper into a square shape - 6''x4'' works nicely.

2.If using plain paper, now is the time to apply decorations with crayons, felt pens and/or stickers. Draw in the diagonals, corner to corner.

3.Trace a round a penny in the center of the diagonal lines. Remove penny and then cut along the diagonals from each corner to the edge of the circle in the center.

4.Fold (without creasing) each corner into the center and fasten together with the pin. Stick the pin firmly into the top of the dowel or the eraser of the pencil. Hold into the wind or attach to handlebars of bike..

TAMBOURINE

2 paper plates
stapler or glue
hole punch
string
jingle bells
crayons

Staple or glue two paper plates together, facing each other. Using a hole punch, make holes around the plates and tie jingle bells to the holes with string. Decorate the tambourine with crayons.

Shake to play.

Note: Heavy duty paper plates may be more durable for this craft.

Safety note: If using a stapler, an adult should do this. When finished be sure to cover the staples with scotch tape.



DRUM

empty oatmeal box with cover
yarn
pen
2 pencils
2 spools
construction paper
crayons

Before beginning, you can decorate the oatmeal box with construction paper and/or crayons for a colorful effect.

Place the cover on the box. Use a pen to make a hole in the center of the cover and in the center of the bottom of the box. Through these holes, pull a piece of yarn long enough to hang around child's neck and down to their waist.

For the drumsticks, place the spools at the ends of the pencils, secure with glue if necessary.

Beat to play.


CHIMES

ruler or stick
washers
nail polish
string
mixing spoon

Hang the washers from the ruler or stick with pieces of string by wrapping the string around the ruler or stick and securing. Strike the washers with the mixing spoon to play.

Note: You can make this craft colorful by painting the washers first with different color nail polishes, such as red, gold, glittery, etc. Parents should supervise this part of the activity closely.


HORN

paper towel roll
waxed paper
rubber band
pen

Cover one end of the paper towel roll with waxed paper, secure it with a rubber band. Punch a row of holes along one side of the roll with the tip of a pen.

To play, sing a tune into the open end of the horn.


CYMBALS

two matching pot covers
yarn or ribbon

Tie the ribbon or yarn around the handles of the pot covers. To play, strike together.



XYLOPHONE

tall glasses or jars
water
mixing spoon

Fill the glasses or jars with different amounts of water. The more water in the glass, the lower the pitch will be. Having less water in the glass or jar will raise the pitch.

To play, gently strike the glasses with a mixing spoon.

Note: This instrument should probably be played by older children in "the band" because of the use of glass.


COMB BUZZER

pocket comb
tissue paper

Fold a piece of tissue paper over the tooth edge of a comb. To play, hum through the tissue paper.


GUITAR

empty shoe box
rubber bands
ruler or stick

Remove the cover from the box. Stretch the rubber bands around the box. Attach the ruler or stick to the back of the box on one end to act as the arm of the guitar.

To play, strum or pluck the rubber bands.


HAND BELLS

2 paper towel rolls
hole punch
4 jingle bells
string or yarn

Punch a hole in each end of the paper towel rolls. Tie two jingle bells to each side of the paper towel rolls by running string or yarn through the holes and carefully tying off.

Shake to play.

92 Days of Summer Kids Printables (things to do etc.)

http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/feature/summer-printables/

Cool.... Thanks for the ideas! She'll love them!

Dough Handprints


This project is rated VERY EASY to do.

What You Need



2 cups of flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water
Food coloring
Ribbon
Gold marker
Wax paper


How To Make It


Add food coloring to the water. I use pink for girls, blue for boys.
Mix all ingredients well, kneading until smooth. Dough should be pretty stiff, not soft or runny or it will fill with air bubbles when baking.
Form dough into a ball, of about what you can enclose in your two hands, and form into a round smooth ball.
Using a rolling pin with the dough on wax paper, roll out into as round of a circle as you can. Dough will be about 1/2 inch thick.
Press your child's hand with fingers splayed into the dough. Depending on child's age, you will have to help and individually press their fingers. Make sure to press deep enough without going completely to the bottom. (When it bakes it tends to raise the handprint up.)
Put on a cookie sheet.
Use a chop stick or pencil, etc. to make two holes in the top about 1/2 inch apart. This will be used to string the ribbon through.
Bake at 200 degrees for about 2-3 hours. Dough should be fairly hard but watch to see that it doesn't burn.
When they are done and cooled, use a gold marker pen and write the child's name and date (year). I put the child's name on top and the year on bottom, if there is room. If not, I put name on one side and year on one side. I tie a ribbon at the top (blue or pink - or gold) to use as a loop to hang.