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February 2006 Activities!
An easy Valentine's Day craft to warm anyone's heart
Supplies Needed:
- Red, white, pink and/or purple construction paper
- White glue
- Length of string, ribbon, or yarn
- Scissors
Directions:
- Using the construction paper, cut 8 hearts including:
- 2 very large hearts
- 2 large hearts
- 2 medium hearts
- 2 small hearts
(The easiest way to make symmetrical hearts is to fold the construction paper in half. You can either cut them freehand, or draw half a heart on one of the folded sides and cut along your line).
- Take each pair of hearts and glue them back to back with string, yarn, or ribbon between them vertically. Leave a space between each pair of hearts on the ribbon.
- Decorate each pair of hearts any way you like. Some ideas include:
- Cutting more hearts and gluing smaller hearts to the larger ones for a layered look
- Glue bits of ribbon, lace or candy to the hearts
- Decorate the hearts with stickers or crayons
- Give the hearts faces with puff paint
- Write messages on the hearts like "I love you" or "friends"
- Hang the heart mobile from the ceiling or wall or give it as a gift to a mom, grandma or a friend.
Project found at Make-Stuff.com
A Fun way to recycle your egg cartons
Supplies Needed:
- 1 egg carton
- bright colored paint
- pipe cleaner
- googly eyes or white felt scraps
- black marker
- scissors
Directions:
- Cut the cover of the egg carton off and discard. Cut the bottom of egg carton in half lengthwise. Note: 1 egg carton will make two caterpillars.
- Paint both halves with bright colors. You can paint each egg slot a different color if you like.
- Cut the pipe cleaner and insert two pieces into the head end of the caterpillar for antennae.
- Glue the googly eyes onto the head. If using white felt, cut into small circles for eyes and use marker to make black pupils in the eyes.
Project found at Enchanted Learning
Parents! Can you answer the following questions?
- How did the ball python get its name?
- How long can a giraffe's neck grow to be?
- How many hours a day does a lion sleep?
Get your kids excited for the reopening of the Erie Zoo this spring with WQLN's Q-Crew at the Zoo! When you do, you can find the answers to these and more than 100 other questions! Your kids will not only learn about animals, but you can use these activities to help strengthen their reading and writing skills as well as math, environment and even history skills.
Parents and kids can utilize this interactive and educational web site to explore the animals that can be found at the Zoo. Interactive online quizzes, dozens of lessons related to more than two dozen animals, plus video lessons and activities all make up this web site! www.wqln.org/qcrew. WQLN members can enter to win their very own CD-Rom of all Q-Crew at the Zoo award-winning video episodes! Email Jackie Jennings by February 28 to be entered into a random drawing.
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