[Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: summer fun with Kids

[Zimmer, Cindy]

Another one...

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From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Henrietta Brewer
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:28 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] summer fun with Kids

Hi Dixie
That sounds like the cutest costume.

Now for the coffee filters. You took one of my activities for next week. lol

So here goes:

Coffee filters are made to absorb fluids.  Water color markers and 
made to wash off.  Put the two together and you have a wonderful 
lesson in color.

Take a dark water based, not permanent, marker and color in the 
center of a coffee filter.  Set the filter in a wet plate. Just 
enough water to moisten the filter.  As the water absorbs into the 
filter the colors will run.  YOu will see all the colors used to make 
the marker.  So purple or brown make lots of colors.  You can use a 
couple colors.  Even the primary colors usually have other tints in 
them but more complex colors work well.

And, Yes, Dixie, They will work wonderfully to make the clothes pin 
butterflies. lol

HenriettaAt 09:14 AM 8/19/2010, you wrote:
>Each year our local community has a costume parade on Labor Day Weekend.
>One of my very favorite costumes I ever saw was made from a paper plate and
>crepe paper streamers.  It was a cute little girl, maybe 3 years old in a
>pink bathing suit, and tied to the top of her head was an up-side-down
>paper plate.  Glued all along the edge of the plate and dangling down about
>2 or 3 feet long were the streamers in red, pink, and white colors.  This
>was the most darling little red jellyfish I have ever seen!
>
>And, with regards to your butterflies...
>We used to make those  butterflies with a coffee filter as the wings.  Then
>using colored water drips to color the wings of the butterfly.  Either with
>water color paints, or water colored with food coloring.
>
>Dixie
>
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>From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Henrietta
>Brewer
>Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:00 PM
>To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] summer fun with Kids
>
>
>Okay, the truth is, I went to Shipshewana yesterday. Walked all day
>and had a great time. I brought home fresh produce to take care of
>today and forgot that it is Wednesday.
>
>Here are a few ideas to entertain the kids when you forgot to plan.
>
>Butterflies
>
>materials
>
>plastic clamp clothes pin
>
>pipe cleaner
>tissue paper
>
>Dirrections
>
>Place of colored tissue paper in the clamp of the clothes pin. Use
>the pipe cleaner to make the antena.
>
>If you have a butterfly net help the kids catch their
>butterflies.  They look beautiful hanging in the window and will
>flutter when and if we get a breeze.
>
>We are hoping for rain around here.  Do you have a rain gage in your yard?
>
>You can make one by taping a ruler to the outside of a clear plastic
>jar.  Have children record the rain fall for a while.  No rain YOu
>say?  Well, measure the water from your sprinkler.
>
>Here is a cute idea for a hat for little girls to make during dress up.
>
>Materials
>
>crepe paper streamers
>cupcake papers
>
>tape or glue
>
>Simply glue the flowers, cupcake papers, to the streamers and tie
>uner the chin.
>
>I always kept pipe cleaners in my purse for those long waiting room times.
>
>We could make designs, animals, flowers or letters and numbers.  How
>about making a pair of glasses using pipe cleaners?
>
>
>
>Henrietta
>~I wish you enough~
>
>
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Henrietta
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