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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.
Clay Handprints Keepsake Craft
This keepsake craft will make your Mom smile from ear to ear...there is no doubt about that. Get some clay (not play dough) out and a rolling pin. Then roll the clay flat so that it is about 1 inch thick. Now press your hand down into the clay firmly. Now let the clay dry....this is different for every clay...it depends on the type and how much moisture is inside of it. When it is completely dry, paint it in beautiful colors. You can even add a message and your name and age (so years from no your Mom will know how old you were when you made it). More Mother's Day Crafts Here.
Make Decorative Pins for Your Mom
Decorative pins don't have to be made of gold or silver to be pretty. All the love that you put into this craft will make the shirt pin all the more beautiful to your Mom. Make different decorations and shapes from cardboard that you paint, cover with fabric or felt or decorative paper, or it could already be the color that you are looking for. For example...the flower above is just made from a large red cardboard circle and many smaller yellow circles glued together ... then some beads and a button were added for extra decoration. The 2nd picture above is a red cardboard circle with macoroni noodles as the petals to the flower and a button as the center of the flower. The first decorative pin above is a diamond cardboard cutout, wrapped with decorative paper. the center is a white button. When you have completed the pin, just have your Dad (or other helpful adult) hot glue a safety pin to the back so that your Mom can pin it on her shirt. More Mother's Day Crafts Here.
Make Your Mom a Carnation for Mother's Day
Fold one tissue in half in the opposite direction to the regular fold lines. From one end of folded tissue to the other, make a series of accordion folds about 1/2 inch wide. Press these pleats (folds) together. Over the center place a bobbie pin (hair pin) or a piece of 24 guage wire that has been bent in the shape of a hair pin (if wire is used). Twist ends together. With your fingers, tear 3/4 " from each end and spread the ends. Separate the top layer of the tissue and bring it up in the center. Separate the 2nd layer and bring it up towards the center but not as far as the 1st layer. Spread out a thin layer of dry tempera powder in order to tin edges of the tissue. Bobbie pin or wire stem can be taped with florist or masking tape. When taping, a pin-back or safety pin can be secured to the stem in order to secure carnation flower to clothing.
Make Handprint Flowers for Your Mom
This is a great present for toddlers, preschoolers, and Kindergarteners to make for Mom. Just get some children-friendly paint - such as tempera. Put newspaper down first to protect your tables and then put down a white piece of paper for the actual picture. Put red paint and green paint in separate pie tins or on a paper plate. Then dip the child's hand in the red paint, shaking off excess paint, carefully. Put the child's handprint down ... one for each flower. Then have the child dip his finger in the green paint and draw a line down for the stem of the flower. Then dip the child's finger in the paint again and put a fingerprint for each stem. Sit the paper out to dry before giving to Mom.
Make Mom a Miniature Purse Broom
This is a handy mini-broom that your Mom can hide in her purse for times when she might need it. She can bring it to work with her for when she has little episodes where she needs to clean something up. Find a lipstick that your Mom doesn't want anymore or pick a large lipstick at the dollar store. Carefully remove all the lipstick from a large empty lipstick tube. From an old broom cut a clump of straw about 1 1/2 inches long. Fill the lipstick holder with strong glue or ask dad to help you with the hot glue gun and insert the clump of bristles. Hold them in place until the glue sets. Then wrap it and give it to your Mom for Mother's Day as a special present.
Pouches Filled with Special Love Notes
Make a special pouch that your Mom can take with her wherever she goes. Fill it with something special like notes with loving messages on them, or a picture of kissing lips so she can have a kiss from you when you aren't with her. Your Mom will love her love pouch. Make it by following the instructions above.
More Mother's Day Crafts Here.
