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Nuts and Bolts
Paperweights
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If your kids love
crafts, help them show their love for Dad, too, with this fun gift
idea.
You will need:
Large mixing bowl
spoon
measuring cup
plastic of paris
water
assortment of nuts, bolts, nails, and screws
old newspaper
silver spray paint
chalk
brightly colored felt scraps
scissors
glue |
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Instructions:
1. In large mixing bowl, mix together the plaster of paris and water
(two parts plaster to one part water). Stir until the mixture is
smooth.
2. Give each child a handful of plaster. Ask each child to mold the
plaster into a mound, about 3" in diameter.
3. Children will decorate the plaster mounds by pressing a variety of
nuts, bolds, nails, and screws into the surfaces.
4. Set he children's paperweights on old newspapers and let dry for
two or three days.
5. When the paper weights have dried, spray-pain them silver. Let dry.
6. To make a protective covering for the bottom of each paperweight,
ask each child to trace the paperweight onto a scarp of felt, using
chalk. Assist each child in cutting out the felt shape and trimming
its edges another 1/4 ". The felt shape will then be glued
onto the bottom of the paperweight.
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