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School Crafts

Apple Magnet Craft
Materials Needed:

Lid (Frozen Juice Container, Baby Food Jar, etc)
Red felt or Red Finger Nail Polish
Green Felt
Brown and Green Chenille Stems or Pipe Cleaners
Tacky Glue or Super Glue
Magnet

Instructions:
Trace a circle around the lid on the red felt
and cut it out. Glue the red circle onto the
lid. If you are using a baby food jar lid or
something similar, glue the circle to the
inside of the lid. You can also paint the lid
using red finger nail polish.

Cut out small leaf shapes from the green felt.
You want it to look like 2 leaves attached in
the middle. Once your leaves are cut, get an
adult to help you make a small hole in the
middle of the leaf shape. Kind of like this:


Cut a small piece of a green pipe cleaner or
chenille stem to be the stem (1-2 Inches long).
Stick the end of your piece of pipe cleaner
through the hole in the middle of the leaf.
Using heavey duty glue, or even strong tape,
attach one end of the pipe cleaner to the side
of the lid without the felt. You will also want
to glue the magnet on the back now.

For a finishing touch, cut a 2-3 inch long
peice of brown chenille stem and glue that
on the front of your apple to be a worm
poking his head out! Glue wiggly eyes on
your worm if you like! Make sure to lay it
flat until the glue is completely dry, and
then hang on the fridge!

Book Keepers

by Cindy Littlefield

Looking for an inexpensive way to corral kids'
books and CDs? Make a pair of colorful cardboard
cases, like the ones shown here, out of an empty,
large laundry-soap box, colored paper, glue and
felt.

With scissors, cut off the top half of the box
and discard it. Then cut the bottom portion of
the box in half vertically to create two open-
face cases.

Use a pencil to trace around the sides and back
of each case onto a piece of colored paper. Cut
out the paper tracings and glue them onto the
outsides of the cases. Then cut out felt pieces
to cover the undersides of the cases and glue
them on.

Now your kids can decorate the cases to suit
their individual tastes with stickers, colored
tape, glitter glue or original drawings.

Back To School Magnet

Need:

Brown Paper Grocery Sack
ruler
pencil
scissors
acrylic paints in orange
yellow and black
black fine tip paint marker
hot glue gun
quilt batting
magnetic strip
clothes pin

cut paper sack in 4 x 6 squares. you will
need two squares for each magnet. draw a
line across square at 1 inch and 3 1/2
inches. let the kids paint the top (1 inch
section) orange, paint the middle section
yellow and the bottom section black.

Remember to paint both squares. After paint
dries, draw a simple outline of a large
pencil on the painted side of the papers,
make sure the top of the pencil is in the
orange and the bottom point is in the black.
Or make a cardboard pattern and have the kids
trace if they are old enough.

cut out the pencil, put hot glue around the
outter edges of the plain side of the pencil
back and glue the two together, leave a 1
inch area unglued so that you can stuff the
pencil with quilt batting.

when glue is dry, stuff (over stuff) with
batting and then hot glue the remaining edge
and clip with clothes pin till dry. Place
magent on back and hang on fridge.
kids love em!

Book Covers

by Deanna F. Cook

Textbooks and school supplies look even
smarter when they're under cover. Here's
how your kids can customize their book
covers with baseball cards and comics.

MATERIALS:
Brown paper bag
Scissors
Baseball cards or comics
Glue, tape or rubber cement
Clear, self-adhesive paper (optional)

Ask your child to cut along one of the side
seams of the bag and remove the rectangular
base so he is left with a long, flat sheet
of paper. Match the height of the sheet to
the height of the book by making folds of
equal width on the long edges of the paper.
Lay out the sheet with the folded edges up,
stretching horizontally in front of you.

Set the book on the paper, right-side up and
about 5 inches away from the right side of
the sheet (for books that are larger or
smaller than a standard textbook, use half
the width of the cover). Fold the left side
of the sheet up and over the book. Now, trim
the ends to about 5 inches beyond the edge of
the book. Tuck the two ends inside the front
and back covers of the book. Secure them by
slipping the book's covers inside the folds.

Your child then can decorate the cover. Add
comic strips or baseball cards with glue,
rubber cement or tape. For extra durability,
cover the work with a layer of clear, self-
adhesive paper.