** Idea #2 - Stealing this from my dau's day camp, where
these came home
as Ladybug Lockets, let's make them Lunar Lockets. Here's
the best I can
do, while looking at the creation before me: Take two
bottle tops and spray paint the outside grey (as ladybugs, they were red,
= duh!). Using a straw,
make 'craters' on them, by dipping the straw ends into
darker paint and
daubing on the surface of the 'moon'. You can even affix
lumps of clay,
paper mach, etc. depending on how creative you're feeling.
Cut black felt
into a loose figure 8 shape (almost like an hourglass,
with that middle, but rounded on the ends). Okay - the round parts of the
'8' will be equal in size
to the inside of the bottle caps. This is what lines
the caps and connects the
two caps together. The middle of the 8, or the
skinny part of the hourglass,
is the bridge between the two halves of the locket (the
caps), and connects them. After this is glued into the bottle caps, it'll
look almost like castanets.
You turn it into a locket, by tying plastic twine (like
is used in Beadie
Critters) through the 'bridge' of felt, and cutting it
into a necklace length.
The bottle caps will continue to clack together, so it
won't hold anything
that's not glued into it. These leaders glued a penny
into one side (the plain, bottom side), I assume for weight.
Here are some of my editorials: The felt is going to tear
in no time. Figure
out something else with which to line or reinforce this,
to make it last. A
thin strip of plastic = canvas nestled underneath the
felt, perhaps? There's
no purpose for this project. Have the girls bring .35
with them and glue
that into the bottle caps, thereby providing the girls
with emergency phone
$$ whenever needed. They could pin this onto their SWAP
hat. OR, have
them bring a picture of themselves, and glue that into
the center.
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