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My oldest daughter has recently started Sparks
(part of the Girl Guides of Canada movement).
One of the first crafts she brought home was this one. Make sure you talk about fire
safety and safety with matches when you make this craft!
Materials:
- one small baby food jar, cleaned with label
removed. The lid is not needed.
- orange tissue paper or paper napkins
- mod podge or white glue
- a votive candle or tealight candle (tea lights
are less likely to break the jar)
- paint brush, cue tip or popsicle stick
Instructions:
- If using white glue you will need to thin it; mix
1/2 glue and 1/2 water in a container (like a margine container).
- If using paper napkins, separate the plies.
- Rip tissue paper or napkins into pieces about 1
inch by 1 inch. It is good if the pieces are jagged. Ripping the tissue paper
is good motor control practice for the kids (and is a lot harder than it looks for some!)
- Using your paint brush, cue tip or popsicle
stick, paint the baby food jar with the mod podge or thinned glue. Only paint the
main jar area (not the part where you would screw the top on -- we don't want any paper to
catch fire).
- Paste tissue paper all over the jar. Feel
free to overlap pieces.
- Paint more glue over the top of any pieces that
look a bit loose.
- Let dry.
- Cut out a jack-o-lantern face from black
construction paper or from white paper and colour it in.
- When AN ADULT lights the candle, it will shine
very prettily through the tissue paper. Make sure you keep it somewhere out of reach
of young kids.
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