Pinwheel. Method. Materials

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1 Pinwheel Square sheet of construction paper. Marker or pencil Scissors Tape or staple Thumbtack Pencil with an eraser on the end Start with a square piece of construction. Draw an X, from corner to corner. Cut from each corner halfway to the centre. Fold over every other point and tape or staple these points at the centre. Push a thumbtack through the centre and into the eraser on a pencil. Blow on the pinwheel or run with it and watch it spin.

2 Stained-glass fish Construction paper (Black) Cellophane or tissue paper (different colours) Pencil or crayons (light colour) Scissors Transparent tape or white glue 1. Draw a fish on black construction paper. (or if you want, you can make up your own design.) Now draw several designs inside the fish. Be sure to draw the inside designs bug enough so that you can cut them out easily. 2. Cut out the fish. Now cut out the inside designs. 3. Arrange small pieces of coloured cellophane or tissue paper over the cut-out spaces until you like what you see. 4. Tape or glue the pieces of cellophane or tissue paper over the cut-out spaces. Hold the fish up to a window or a lamp and watch the colours light up!

3 Colour Fortune Teller 1. Crayons, felt-tip pens, or magic markers Paper (plain) Scissors Square sheet of paper. Fold the square as shown by the dashed lines. Be sure to make sharp creases on all the folds for this project. Open the paper and fold each corner into the centre. Keep the paper folded. Turn it over and fold each corner into the centre again. Each of the four corner flaps has two sections. Colour each of these eight sections a different colour. Print the name of a career (or other topic), such as artist, writer, nurse, doctor, singer, and so on, in each section. Pick any eight careers you like. Turn the paper over. In each of the eight sections on this side, write a number from 1 to 8. Fold the paper in half, with the coloured career flaps on the inside. Hold the paper in both hands and push your hands together. Open the numbered flaps so they form cones. Hold the fortune teller between the thumb and first finger of each hand. To see one group of careers, press the cones together and move your hands back and forth. To see the other group of careers, keep your hands together and open and close your fingers. To tell a fortune, ask a friend t pick a number from 1 to 8. Open and close the fortune teller this number of times. Then show your friend the career behind the number. This is what he or she will grow up to be.

4 Pasta Jewellery Pasta Shapes Small Containers Coloured Paints Wool Scissors Transparent Tape Dip a selection of pasta shapes into different food colours for a few seconds. 2. Lay the pasta on paper towels until it dries. 3. Cut a piece of wool long enough to make a necklace or bracelet. 4. Wrap it at one end with transparent tape. 5. Tie a piece of pasta at the other end. 6. String the pasta shapes. 7. Then remove the transparent tape and untie the piece of pasta and tie the wool ends together.

5 Pen or Pencil Paper Alphabet Chart Give a number to each letter of the alphabet: Then print out your whole name. Beneath each letter, put the number for that letter, for example: A-1 B-2 E-5 F-6 I-9 J-1 M-4 N-5 Q-8 R-9 U-3 V-4 Y-7 Z-8 J U S T I N B I E B E R = 53 C-3 D-4 G-7 H-8 K-2 L-3 O-6 P-7 S-1 T-2 W-5 X-6 Now, add up all the numbers. You ll get an answer with two numerals, such as 53. Add the two numerals together. If you get a number from one to nine, that s your magic number. If you get a number that s higher than nine, you must then add the two numerals. For example, Justin Bieber numbers add up to 53. When he adds 5 and 3, he gets 8. That s his magic number.

6 Bottle Figure Bottle (plastic) Newspaper Paintbrushes Sand or salt Strip papier-mâché Tempera paint : 1. Find an empty plastic bottle (a detergent bottle works well). Pour about two cupfuls of sand or salt into the bottle. This will keep the bottle from tipping over. 2. Tear a sheet of newspaper in half. Crush one piece of the newspaper into a small, tight ball. Place the ball in the centre of the other piece of newspaper. Pick up the four corners and tightly twist them together to hold the ball in place. The ball will be the head for your bottle figure. 3. Push the twisted end of the newspaper into the opening at the top of the bottle. The ball should be the only part showing. 4. Paste four layers of papier-mâché strips over the ball and the top part of the bottle to hold these parts together. Smooth the strips around the ball. Cover the ball and the bottle with four more layers of strips. Let the strips dry (leave object in open place for two or more days). 5. When the figure is dry, you can paint the body, arms and facewith tempera paint. Add any decorations you like to the alien's face When the paint dries, you can use your bottle figure as a paperweight or as a bookend.

7 Papier-Mâché Three papier-mâché paste recipes Strip papier-mâché is made by tearing strips of newspaper into narrow strips about 1 inch (2.5 cm wide) wide. Cover the strips with papier-mâché paste by pulling each strip through the paste. Or spread the paste on each strip with a paintbrush. To cover an object with papiermâché strips, paste on a layer of strips in one direction. Then paste on another layer of strips in the other direction, so that they go across the first layer. Smooth down all of the strips. Continue this way until you have put on four or more layers.

8 Boxes Paper Pens (two or more players) On a piece of paper, draw five or more rows of dots, as shown. Each player, in turn, draws a line to connect two dots. The line must go up and down or across never on a slant. A player who closes a box writes his initial in the box and gets another turn. If he cannot close a box, he looks for a place to draw a line that will not help the another player. When all the boxes are closed, the player with the most boxes wins the game.

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10 Make your own Pyramids Paper/Coloured Paper/Construction Paper Pens/Pencils/Paints Scissors Glue Trace the pattern. Cut out the shape. Fold the paper on the dotted lines. Open the paper and fold the flaps down. Working with one flap at a time, put a bit of glue on each flap, then stick the flap to the underside of the triangle next to it. Four triangular sides have made a Pyramid

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12 Make your own Cubes Paper/Coloured Paper/Construction Paper Pens/Pencils/Paints Scissors Glue Trace the pattern. Cut out the shape Fold the paper on the dotted lines Glue each of the flaps to the underside of the square Six squares have made a Cube

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14 Make your own Diamonds Paper/Coloured Paper/Construction Paper Pens/Pencils/Paints Scissors Glue Trace the pattern Cut out the shape Fold the paper on the dotted lines Glue each of the flaps to the underside of the diamond Eight flat sides have made a Diamond

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