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This is a fun game to play with one of your friends at lunch or just on a boring day when there is nothing else to do. One of you draws 5 dots in any pattern that you want. Your friend then has to somehow figure out how to draw a person out of those 5 dots. One dot for 2 hands, 2 feet, and one in the person's face / head. This will bring on a ton of laughs.
Prepare the picture before you meet up with your friends. Use white crayon on white paper or yellow crayon on yellow paper, etc. This way the drawing will be invisible. Give your friends some watercolor paints in several colors. Tell them that the magic picture will appear when the picture is painted over with the wet brush. Your friend will love when the picture appears.
If you have a tablecloth on your table, a glass, and a few coins in your pocket, then today is the perfect day to try a trick out on your friends. Turn a glass upside down and have it stand on top of 2 coins, as you can see in the picture above. Put a 3rd coin under the elevated cup. Ask one of your friends to try to get the coin out without touching the glass. When none of your friends can figure out how to do this. Say 'Hocus Pocus' and scratch the tablecloth near the glass, the coin will start moving towards you and will soon be outside of the cup. This is a fun little game!
Here's a very fun game! The first player places a toothpick on top of a bottle. The second player does likewise. The object of the game is to keep on piling toothpicks on the bottle without knocking any off. If a player disturbs the pile so that a toothpick rolls off, he loses the round and his opponent scores 1 point. All the toothpicks are then removed and a new toothpick tower is started. The player who scores 10 points first, wins the game.
You can start this trick out by balancing a playing card on the tip of your pointing finger. Now place a nickel on top of the playing card ... and try to balance that. Now hit the card with a pencil or a ruler and the card will fly away quickly, leaving only the nickel balanced on your finger. If you are able to do this, next try to just snap your finger directly forward to fling the card away. It is a hard thing to master. Try to fling your finger without pushing the card up or down but just forward. Good luck.
This is a lot of fun to do. Ask your parents if it would be okay to draw on your hand before playing this game though. If they are okay with it, then clench your hand into a fist. With your knuckles facing up and your thumb covering your other fingers, draw a face on your hand. Draw the mouth on the thumb and pointer finger, as pictured above. Draw the nose and eyes right above the mouth. If you have a piece of cloth, a play wig, a handkerchief or a bandana, a doll hat, or other head piece, drape, it around the hand like it is hair. Now make the person speak by carefully moving the knuckle of your thumb up and down. It is a lot of fun and you can make everyone laugh hysterically if you are a funny kid.
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Ideas for Activities and Crafts for Kids
Find Arts and Crafts Projects and Activities for Children, Preschoolers, Teens, and Toddlers. Here are All of the Crafts in Alphabetical Order
Below you will find fun ideas that are all quick and easy to make with materials that you most likely have just sitting around the house. None of the following crafts will take a lot of time to do, and they are all great boredom busters for those rainy days when you are just stuck inside watching tv. We'll keep them up to date for all of the nearest holidays that are just around the corner.
Have Your Friends / Family Write What they Love About You and Seal it Until Valentines Day
This idea is for a special 'Book of Love' to seal up until Valentines Day when you are able to open it and find out why your friends and family care about you. It is a great book to give you 'good feelings of love' on Valentines Day. You can have fun and more fun with a book of Love secrets. First of all buy a dollar store notebook. Lay it on a table before you. Lift up the lower edge of the first page and fold it up along the place where the notebook is stitched together as in Fig. I . Do the same with the upper edge of the page. This double folding brings the page to a point. Repeat the folding process with each page in the notebook. When the folding has been completed, cut down the covers of the notebook with a pair of sharp scissors. This will change your rectangular notebook into one of a triangular shape as in Fig. 2. You are now ready to ask your friends and family to write in the book of Love Secrets. Pass this book around to your friends at school ... making sure to write instructions on the first page. Every body should write down what they 'like' about you or what makes you so special...etc.. To do this each one unfolds a page, writes a message inside, refolds the page, seals it with a pretty sticker or seal as in Fig. 3. A book of secrets makes for a fun New Years Craft. You Might Enjoy Our Other Valentine's Day Crafts
Fun Idea to Make Animals and Creatures Out of Hearts for Valentine's Day
It is fun to make all sorts of creatures from paper hearts. Or you can draw creatures with hearts as I show you in a previous article about drawing heart creatures. To make these paper hearts creatures, you will need to know how to cut out paper hearts, so check out this diagram on cutting out paper hearts.
Basically, just fold a piece of paper in half (red is a great color for hearts as I'm sure that you know already). Then draw a half of a heart along the fold of the page. Then cut it out...leaving the fold intact and uncut. Then open up the paper and you have a heart shape as seen above. Make all different sized hearts to make cool heart animals and creatures. Have fun! You Might Enjoy Our Other Valentine's Day Crafts
Making Lace Valentines Day Cards
It is easy to make valentine hearts and lace heart cards. Fold a piece of paper. Draw half of a heart upon this folded half of paper, as in Fig. I . Cut out on the curved line. Open. Use this heart for a pattern. Place it upon a sheet of red paper. Trace around the outline of the heart. Cut on this outline, as in Fig. 2. Paste a ruffle of lace around the edge of a red heart, as in Fig. 3 . Paste over this heart a red heart as shown in Fig. 4. Edge a tiny white heart with lace as you did the first red one. Paste it upon the red one, as in Fig. 5. Write on this heart "To My Valentine" or whatever you feel works for you.
