Clay Black Bear
Materials List:
- Self-hardening clay
- Clay cutter (if using a block of clay)
- Plastic knife for cutting template
- Plastic fork for scoring
- Toothpicks for claws
- Little tools for design details, Example: appetizer pick
- Small cup of water used to create slippy
- Acrylic or tempera paint for painting once sculpture is dry
- Flat dry workspace
- Piece of cardboard as base for drying sculpture
Bird Feeder
Materials List:
- One orange juice or milk carton ½ gallon size—washed and cleaned out
- Sand Paper –one piece ( to ‘rough up’ the exterior of the carton before painting—so it will hold the paint)
- One pipe cleaner
- One straight wooden stick 8 to 10 inches long (from outside fallen tree limb or a wooden dowel)
- Waterproof acrylic paint –one small jar, preferable green or blue (craft stores)
- One “sponge” brush p to paint the carton
- Lots of materials from outside –fallen leaves (press them between sheets of newspaper), grasses, fall weeds, acorns, evergreen branch pieces (small) ferns ( pressed)
- Elmers school glue
- Some bird seed to put in your feeder
- Have Mom or Dad cut the holes in the Milk carton –as per the demonstration before starting
Build a Bug
Materials List:
- Six pieces flower arranging foam (not Styrofoam) – preferably green
- Cut the rectangular pieces into two rectangles, two large triangles and four squares
- Wooden sticks (small) to put pieces of foam together (available in craft stores)
- Colored pipe cleaners – one package
- Colored “puffs” both large and small (in craft stores)
- Elmers school glue
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