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Materials:
- Brightly colored gift wrapping paper
- Craft glue
- Cracker snaps - or thin wooden sticks that will break easily (at craft store)
- Glitter
- Paper towel roll
- Small gifts, candies, and good luck fortunes
- Ribbon
- Scissors
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Instructions:
- Cut the wrapping paper into a small rectangle approximately 27cm x 40cm (11 in. x 16 in.)
- Slide the cracker snap through the paper towel roll. Make sure that it sticks out evenly from both ends.
- Put small gifts, candies and fortunes in the tube.
- Put a bead of glue down the length of the paper towel roll.
- Place the paper towel roll along the long edge of the wrapping paper. Center it so that even amounts of wrapper paper are on either side.
- Roll the wrapping paper around the towel roll and secure the open end of wrapping paper with a long bead of glue. Your cracker should be a long roll of wrapping paper with gifts, candy and fortunes inside.
- At this point you can further decorate your cracker with glue and glitter for a really sparkly effect.
- Finally, tie each end of the party cracker with colorful ribbon.
- You can "pull" or open these crackers traditionally between two party guests, or you can send them home with your party guests intact!
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Materials:
- 30.5cm-square (12in. square) of cardboard
- Colored construction paper
- Cotton (for the smoke)
- Macaroni and popsicle sticks (for the roof)
- Paper clips (for the windows)
- Bits of patterned fabric
- Felt scraps
- postage stamp (for the door's window
- Buttons
- White paper
- Black felt-tip marker
- Ribbon
- Scissors
- Pencil
- White glue
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Instructions:
- Lightly draw the outline of a house (cottage) on the piece of cardboard.
- Cut out the house shape, and glue it onto a sheet of blue construction paper. This becomes the sunny sky background for your cottage scene.
- Cut out a chimney shape from the colored construction paper and glue it into place.
- Glue cotton "smoke" to the top of the chimney stack.
- Fill in the roof with macaroni. Glue the pasta into place.
- Use popsicle sticks to outline the windows in the house. Glue them in place, as well.
- Glue paper clips around the front door frame.
- Use the scraps of fabric for window curtains.
- Felt can be used for a colorful front lawn. Also, use the felt to cut out flowers and glue them down to accentuate the cottage.
- Finally, use your colored markers to sketch birds, and house pets to complete the cozy picture!
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Amazing Masquerade Masks:
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Materials:
- Construction paper
- Ribbon
- Paint
- Wallpaper scraps
- Colored tissue paper
- Glitter
- Feathers
- Bits of patterned fabric
- Felt scraps
- Buttons
- Markers
- Crayons
- White glue
- Scissors
- White glue
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Instructions:
- Cut out a 10cm x 20cm (4 in. x 8 in.) strip of construction paper - any color.
- Cut out eye holes in any shape.
- Use your scissors to shape your masquerade mask. Try sculpting your mask into a more oval configuration.
- Cut out a V-shaped notch for your nose.
- Reinforce the mask with layers of masking tape strips - both front and back surfaces.
- Punch holes on both side of the mask.
- Paint your mask. Wait for paint to dry.
- Once dry, decorate your mask with feathers, wallpaper scraps, glitter, crayons. Use what ever materials you have available. Turn your masquerade masks into elaborate works of art!
- Finally, thread a length of ribbon through each side hole on your mask.
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