DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids
Recipe Card Holder

Fits standard sized recipe cards

	tongue depressors (big popsicle sticks -- you can get these at the craft store)
	4 or 5 regular sized popsicle sticks
	glue
	ribbon, string or wool
	poster or tempra paint (you could also use acrylic paint if you want a water proof version)
	optional decorations: woodsies, fun foam shapes, seashells, pretty stones, etc -- we used 6 teardrop woodsies and one circle woodsie to form our "flower"

Glue three big popsicle sticks together so they form a U shape.

	Add as many more big popsicle sticks as it takes to completely cover the two sides of the U (about 7 or 8 all together)
	This is the back of your recipe holder

	Flip it over
	Stack and glue about 2 more big popsicle sticks on each side of the U shape (we want our end result to be wide enough to fit a fair number of recipe cards... you can do more or less depending on how fat you want your holder to be.

Stack and glue 4 or 5 regular sized popsicle sticks onto the bottom of the U so the recipe cards don't fall out the bottom.

Glue 4 or 5 big popsicle sticks onto the creation to form the front.

	paint the creation -- we just used tempra paint, but you could use acrylic paint if you like... it is more water proof (but doesn't come out of clothes if the kids make a mess)
	Decorate as you like (we used woodsies)
	Attach string or wool to the back (we just masking taped it on)