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Festive Table Crafts
Bring a Homemade Touch to Your Holiday Feast
By Laura M. Johnson
Here's what you do:
Rip the tissue paper into small pieces, approximately 4 inches by 4 inches. Let your toddler begin wadding the pieces into balls.
While your little one is busy making paper wads, use your pencil to draw three circles on the poster board in graduated sizes: 10 inches in diameter, 8 1/2 inches in diameter and 7 inches in diameter. (Hint: To draw circles, tie yarn to a pencil and cut yarn to half the length of the diameter of your circle. Tape the end of the yarn to the poster board. Stretch yarn out to full length. Put the pencil down on the poster board and rotate in a full circle.)
Cut out the three circles. Line the circles up with the largest circle at the bottom and the smallest at the top, with each circle slightly overlapping the next. Staple the three circles together where they overlap to create the body of your snowman. Repeat this process to create another snowman body of the same size.
Place glue on one circle of the snowman at a time, and let your child press their tissue paper wads into the glue. Guide him to place black tissue wads where the eyes, mouth and buttons on the snowman would be. Help him place orange tissue wads where the "carrot" nose would be. Do this on one side of the snowman's body only. Repeat this process on the other snowman body so that you end up with two snowmen covered in tissue paper wads.
Staple the two snowman bodies together along their sides, "back-to-back" with the tissue-covered sides facing out. Leave a small opening at the bottom of the bodies. Insert the dowel through the opening. Turn the clay pot upside down on your holiday table, and insert the bottom of the dowel through the hole in the pot. Saw the dowel to the appropriate height so that none of the dowel is showing. You may need to anchor the dowel inside the pot with a square of Styrofoam. Wrap the pot and the bottom of the snowman in batting to create a snowy hill for your child's Paper Wad Snowman.
If your child has the energy and interest, he can create snowmen of different sizes for each member of the family.
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