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MINI DAFFODIL EASTER BASKETS
submitted by Beverly

For each cup you need:
1 disposable cup
1 coffee filter
1 Chenille Stem (pipe cleaner)

Directions:
Have the children decorate the coffee filter. Some ideas include "tye dying" them with markers (holdig the tip of the marker down in one spot for few seconds and the marker 'bleeds' onto the filter. Stickers for younger kids.

Glue the bottom of the disposable cup in the middle of the coffee filter. Punch holes on each
side of the cup. Place a pipe cleaner for the handle.  Fill cup with jelly beans or anything you'd like!
 

Peek-a-Boo Eggs
submitted by Beverly

You need:
Egg Cartons
Magazines or Stickers
Glue
Beads, sequins, etc. for decorating

Directions:
Cut out the individual egg sections of the egg cartons.  Glue small pictures from magazines and cards or  stickers inside one end of the egg. Attach one to end of the egg to another to form an egg. Decorate the outside. (glitter looks really neat because it looks a lot like the sugar they put on the real peek a boo eggs! Beads, ribbon, ric-rac etc.) Cut a hole in one end of the eggs to peek in.
 

Non-Edible Pastel Candy Eggs
submitted by Beverly

Styrofoam Eggs (various sizes)
Pastel Candies (examples: M&M's, Brach's Pastel Candy
Corn, pastel butter mints)
Glue
Pastel/Easter style ribbon

Glue the pastel candies all over the eggs creating a  kind of "mosaic" look. If you find you have large open areas, you can cover these with strings of crafting beads. Wrap a festive bow around the eggs. Let dry. Place in a bowl for decoration. Be sure children know this is NOT something to eat.

Quick July Fourth Ideas
submitted by Aileen Wedeking

 *Paint a cluster of wooden stars red, white, and blue and hang by either jute or wire.

 Sign Ideas:
 *God Bless America
 *Stars and Stripes Forever
 *Made In America
 *America - Land that I love

 *Rip strips of assorted patriotic fabrics aprox. 2" by 7" and then tie onto jute to form a swag.

 *Make a swag of assorted patriotic fabric stuffed hearts sewn together.

 *Paint wooden hearts in stars and stripes.

 *Tear a strip of patriotic fabric and tie it around a teddy bears neck.

 *Make Fire Crackers - Cut dowels in various lengths. Paint red, white, and blue stars and stripes. Drill a small hole in the top of each for a small jute 'fuse' and tie in bunches of three with raffia.

 *Paint a pot with stars around the rim. On the remainder of the pot paint vertical stripes. Use a star on a dowel as a plant poke.

 Basket Garter
submitted by Aileen Wedeking

 Supplies:
 Basket
 Fabric Scrap
 1/2" Elastic
 Sewing Machine
 Thread

 Procedure:
 Measure the circumference of the basket. Double that measurement for the fabric length. Use the same measurement for the piece of elastic plus 1".  Cut the fabric the length determined by about 5" in width.   (Use a narrower width for smaller baskets) Fold lengthwise right sides together and sew seam 1/4" from the raw edges.

 Turn right side out and press, leaving the seam on the bottom edge.  Secure the elastic at both ends and sew 2 rows (1 on either side of the elastic) the length of the garter.  Turn raw edges under on one end and sew on top of the opposite end. Slip around your favorite basket and enjoy.
 

PATRIOTIC PINS
submitted by Barbara

materials:
10 brass quilters safety pins
42 red beads
37 white beads
24 blue beads

Take 5 of the pins and put 6 red and 5 white beads alternately on the pin and fasten closed.  On 4 of the pins put 3 red and 3 white (alternately) followed by 7 blues and fasten closed.  Thread the 10th pin through the top of the other 9 pins ending with the ones containing blue beads.  The result should look like an American Flag.

This can also be done with smaller brass pins & beads as well.  However, a larger pin is needed to hold them all together.
 

Uncle Sam
submitted by:  Beverly

          Materials:
          red, white, and blue construction paper
          red, white, and blue tempera paint
          markers or crayons
          glue
          cotton
          paper cup

Directions:
1. Turn a paper cup upside down. On the bottom half of the cup, draw Uncle Sam's face. Use cotton to make
    a beard; glue onto face. You may also use the cotton to make hair and eyebrows.
2. Using a six-inch square of white construction paper, cut out a circle. Cut out a circle in the middle of the
    larger circle, big enough to fit around the paper cup just  above Uncle Sam's face-this is the brim of the
    hat, the remaining top half of the cup is the hat itself.
3. Color the brim of the hat red, white and blue.
4. Paint the hat portion red, white and blue. or you may cut red, white and blue stripes from the construction
    paper to glue around the cup.