Wacky Crafts for Juniors

**Idea #1 - Trace circles the size of a toilet paper or paper towel roll onto
black construction paper. Cut them out and glue them on larger circles of  waxed paper. Let the girls draw the constellation within the black circle 
and punch through the paper where the stars would be. You don't need to
use a  pin for this, a mechanical pencil punches quite well, without hazard. Spread  glue around the sides of one end on the roll and position the black circle over the end to cover it, smoothing the waxed paper down over the
glue. You can use construction paper for all of this, skipping the step of
gluing it onto the waxed paper, but the wp is much easier to handle, and
is less cumbersome and glompy (yes, that's a word). You have just made
a Star Gazer. Look into the light & it'll filter through the 'star holes' you punched in the construction apper, thus reproducing the constellation.

** 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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