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Homemade Sidewalk Chalk Paint

September 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Crayola makes sidewalk chalk, but its just too expensive.
To make your own homemade sidewalk chalk paint, you need a few basic items: cornstarch, food coloring, water, plastic cups, paintbrushes.
 

I don’t have an exact recipe, but fill the cup about 1/3 with cornstarch, add a few drops off food coloring and stir in cool water until [...]

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Altered Book- craft project

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Monroe County Library System is offering a creative  crafts class for “tweens.”  My two daughters are attending and having a great time. 
Last week’s project was “altered book.”  Slightly different than what I anticipated it would be, as all the inside pages were removed and filled with a blank sheets for a journal.  In the other [...]

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Cereal Box Flip Flops and Houses

July 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments

Since nobody in our house likes the same kind of cereal, we end up with a lot of empty cereal boxes.
Hmmm. well, I’m no math whiz but I guess the same amount of cereal would be eaten, so maybe we’d end up with the same amount of empty boxes, but they’d just all be the same [...]

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