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As Summer vacation quickly approaches, it's time to gather an arsenal of activities to keep those kids busy.
This week on I Love to Create, I implore parents to encourage your sons and daughters to spend some of those idle months getting crafty! Through August, I'll be offering a few projects to get those creative-kid juices flowing, beginning today with our first trick: magic wands!
Magic Wands
Materials
3/8" x 12" Wooden Dowel
Sponge Brush
Small Paint Brush
Masking Tape
How-to:
- Using a sponge brush, paint dowel with main color. Paint additional coats, if necessary. Let dry.
- Tape off a line, about 1" in from the ends of the dowel.
- Using secondary color, paint ends of the dowel. For extra razzle-dazzle, pour glitter over ends, while paint is still wet. Let dry.
- Shake excess glitter off. Remove Tape.
- Add a varnish coat. Ta-da, you're finished!
Now your little Houdini-Harry Potter-Penn & Teller-Gandolfs can run rampant, spreading crafty magic wherever they go! Oh, and if you're a child of the 80's like I am, be sure to torture, I mean delight, your children with renditions of The Steve Miller Band's "Abracadabra" and America's "You Can Do Magic". They'll love it, I promise.
More Kids Projects:
xo,
Vickie
Read last week's I Love to Create column here.
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