Celebrate the season of winter by making these perfect six sided snowflakes. Use them to decorate your windows.

What you need:

	Paper
	Scissors
	Ruler
	Pencil
	Plate or cereal bowl
	Glitter and glue - optional
	Crayons or markers - optional

What you do:

Braided Jump Rope

What you need:

	3 pieces of coloured yarn
	Different kinds of beads
	Scissors
	Tape or a little heavy rock

What you do:

Twirling Windmills Make your own windmills to decorate the top of a pencil or just for fun! What you need: Ruler Scissors Pencil Pins with large heads Small beads Stiff coloured paper Pencils with erasers on the end or pieces of wooden dowel What you do: 1. Using your ruler measure and draw to equal size squares on two different colours of paper.   2. Cut out the squares.   3. Using the ruler, draw two diagonal lines across each square so that they cross in the middle. Cut 2/3 of the way on each line towards the centre.   4. Holding the squares of paper together, bend the paper back along each cut line toward the center. Hold the corners with your fingers until you have all four corners folded into the center.   5. Push a pin through the centre making sure it goes through all four corners. Then slip a small bead on the back.   6. Push the pin into the eraser of a pencil or the doweling.   7. Blow on your windmill and watch it spin!   Caramel Popcorn This recipe is one of Squigly's favourite. This recipe for caramel popcorn is easy to make and tastes really delicious. It makes a great present! Please make this recipe with adult supervision. What you need: Adult helper 8 cups popped, unbuttered popcorn 1/2 cup peanuts + raisons (optional) 1/3 cup butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup corn syrup What you do: 1. Make sure you have an adult helper for this recipe, the syrup is extremely hot and you will be using the stove and oven for this recipe. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.   2. Pop popcorn and measure peanuts and/or raisins. Remove any unpopped kernels.   3. In a small pot put butter, brown sugar and corn syrup, add a pinch of salt. Bring to a boil on high heat, stirring constantly. Boil for 2 minutes. Be sure to stir continually!   4. Remove pot from heat and pour liquid over popcorn and peanuts and/or raisons.   5. Mix until popcorn, peanuts and/or raisins are well coated.   6. Spray a cookie sheet or shallow roasting pan with non-stick cooking spay.   7. Scoop popcorn onto baking dish and bake for 15 minutes. Stir occasionally.   8. Once baked, stir popcorn and caramel together until coated and cooled.   9. Store in an airtight container.   10. Gift idea: package in pretty plastic bags or gift boxes lined with wax paper and give as gifts. Marbles What you need: Baking or self hardening clay in several colours An adult helper if using baking clay     What you do: 1. Take a small piece of clay and roll it into a ball, if you want multicoloured marbles, use 2 or 3 colours. Make about 10 small marbles, and 1 larger one, for rolling. You can make them all different.   2. Bake or dry the marbles according to the directions on the package of clay.   How to play a game of marbles: Get together with a friend who has their own marbles or share your marbles. Draw a circle outside on the sidewalk (or any other hard outdoor surface) with chalk. Place the marbles in the circle and give the big marble to your friend. Have your friend try to roll your marbles out of the centre, she will claim the marbles she knocks out, but, if she rolls one of her marbles out of the circle you get that marble! Take turns until all the marbles are gone. The person with the most marbles wins! Note: you should make your marbles different colours, so you can tell who rolled who's marble out of the circle. Crayons What you need: A grownup helper Small crayons with paper removed Muffin baking tray Muffin cups (paper type) What you do: 1. Preheat oven to 250°F (120°C).   2. Place a muffin cup in each cup of the muffin tray.   3. Put some crayons in each cup. Mix the colours to make multi-coloured crayons. Make sure you have removed the paper wrapper from the crayons. Do not overfill cups.   4. Ask your adult helper to place the baking tray in the oven. For extra fun, turn on the oven light, so you can watch the crayons melt   5. Bake for approximately 10 minutes or until all the crayons are melted.   6. Remove baking tray from oven and allow to cool.   7. Remove from tray and peel off paper muffin cups. Now you have new, multi-coloured crayons. These make cool little gifts for younger siblings and friends. Button Flowers What you need: Stiff construction paper Scissors Pipe cleaners Buttons What you do: 1. Cut out flowers from different colours of construction paper. Choose buttons that match your flowers.   2. Center a button with the middle of your flower. Poke a pipe cleaner through your flower so that it comes up and through the first hole of your button, then poke it down through the next hole in the button and through your flower.   3. Twist the short end of the pipe cleaner around the long end, directly under the flower and button.

"God's Eyes"

The Huichol Indians of Mexico and the Aymara Indians of Bolivia weave brightly colored yarn on a simple frame of crossed sticks to make a design called "Ojo de Dios" or "Eye of God". Originally, "God's Eyes" were made to be placed on an altar so that the gods could watch over the praying people and protect them. They are now more often sold in markets, reminding us that God looks with love on people everywhere.

This project is divided into 2 steps. The first is a single "God's Eye" made with 2 crossed sticks. The other, at the bottom of the page, a multiple series of "God's Eyes" which should be attempted only after you have made the single one first.

Materials you will need:

2 small sticks, fairly straight and approximately 5" long OR 2 popsicle sticks (the sticks can be fairly smooth tree branches or dowels)

Scissors and pencil

1-3 skeins each of Watercolours thread in Buttercup, Emerald, Flame and Mediterranean

Small Bells for Decoration (optional)

Step 1: Cross the sticks at the center. Tie them together with the end of a piece of yarn, making an X, but don't cut the yarn off its skein (Figure 2). Tie the yarn IN BACK of the 2 crossed sticks (Figure 1).

Step 2: With the pencil, number the sticks at the ends, in the center. (Figure 3)

Step 3 : Bring the yarn to the front between sticks 3 and 4. Pull the yarn over stick 3 and the next one too (stick 2), and bring it to the back between sticks 2 and 1. Wrap it behind stick 2 and bring it to the front again between sticks 2 and 3. Pull it over stick 2 and the next one too (stick 1), and wrap it behind stick 1 (Figure 3).

Step 4: Pull the yarn over stick 1 and the next one too (stick 4) and wrap it behind stick 4. Pull it over stick 4 and the next one too (stick 3) and wrap it behind stick 3. This is one complete round. Always lay the yarn next to, NOT on top of the yarn already in place.

Step 5: Keep on wrapping the yarn behind each stick, over that stick and the next, and around behind that one, then over that stick and the next and behind that one. (Figure 4)As you continue making the rounds, always be sure that the yarn lies next to, but never on top of the yarn in the previous round. After the first few rounds, you will see the woven pattern of the "eye" beginning to form.

Step 6 : When you have an "eye" in one color of yarn, you can cut the yarn and tie on another color, and continue weaving. Make sure that the knot that you joined the 2 colors with, stays in the back (Figure 5).

Step 7: Keep weaving the "God's Eye" until you are about 1/2 inch from the ends of the sticks. Cut the yarn, leaving approximately a 7-8" tail. Tie the tail in a knot in back .If you have bells for decoration, attach one to each of the 4 ends.

A "God's Eye" this size can be use as a decoration, hung almost anywhere. At Christmas you can even hang them on your tree. They can also be made in miniature with the thread wound on toothpicks, but these are delicate and much harder to handle.

Step 8: You can make a larger, more complicated Project with multiple "God's Eyes" by crossing 2 larger sticks ,12 inches or longer, and then crossing a short stick at the end of each long one. (See the picture of the finished "God's Eye".) Weave out only about 2-3 inches from the center of the shorter sticks, farther on the longer ones. To make this larger one, you are really just making 5 single "God's Eyes" the way you did in steps 1 to 7 above. Weave the center "God's Eye" first. Then weave each of the 4 smaller "Eyes", projecting out from the center, using the same method. Tie bells on the ends and where the individual "God's Eyes" meet, just for fun. You can also make individual "God's Eyes" in different sizes to make up a really neat mobile.

Step 9: Make a twisted cord to loop over the topmost "God's Eye" sticks that project from side to side, at the top.(See completed multiple "God's Eye".) For details about making a twisted cord see our Kid_s Project Archives for Rainbow Shoelaces with Pom-poms : Steps 3 and 4.

Wow! Great job! Bet you're the first one on your block to have a genuine "Ojo de Dios " weaving! And you learned a bit of Spanish besides! Bueno!

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ROGGBIF   = Rød, orange, gul, grønn, blå, indigo og fiolett.