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Amazing Animals
Amazing Animals

Try This!
Be Crafty!VASE AND TOOL HOLDER
Image: vase or toolholderYOU WILL NEED
  • Plastic cup or bowl
  • Warm water
  • White glue
  • Paintbrush, scissors
  • Tissue paper in different colors
  • Old vase or clean 26-ounce (758-milliliter) glass jar (A pasta sauce jar works well.)
  • Old magazines (to cut out words or letters)


HERE'S HOW

1. Tear colored tissue paper into pieces the size of your palm or smaller.

2. Fill a plastic cup or bowl about one-third full with warm water and add three strong squirts of white glue. Stir with the paintbrush until the mixture is the consistency of milk.

3. Hold a piece of tissue paper flat against the jar and coat the entire piece with the water-glue mixture. (Don't worry if the paper gets creased or folded; it adds texture.)

4. Repeat, overlapping the tissue paper edges until the jar is covered.

5. Let it dry overnight before gluing on words or letters.

MAKE ANOTHER GIFT »

Photograph by Rebecca Hale
Text by NGK staff




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