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Cupboard Crafts & Experiments: Mother's Day Card

Supplies:

Directions:

Fold construction paper in half and place a paper clip on the top and the bottom of the folded paper to hold paper in place.
Lay your hand down onto the paper, and trace around your fingers with a marker or pencil.
Cut out your traced hand out, and try to cut just inside the tracing line as you cut. You may want to move the paper clips to secure the hand shape as you cut. You'll be cutting through two pieces of paper since your paper is folded in half.
Take one hand for the front of the card and write something like, "Mom, I love you".
With the white piece of paper, cut a strip off the long side about 2" wide. Fold the strip accordion style. (Fold a bit at one end and flip over and fold again, do this about 10 times.)
On the accordion folded paper, write "THIS MUCH!".
Glue each end of the accordion folded paper onto the back side of each hand piece.
Decorate the front of your card with stickers or designs. Write your name on the back of your card.

Supplies:

Packing tape (or clear contact paper)
Scissors
Masking or painter's tape
Markers or something to write with
Paper
A postage stamp
Decoration options: old greeting cards, confetti, easter grass, buttons, glitter, hole punches, pictures cute out of old magazines, newspaper or book pages, beads, stickers, yarn, any small, mostly flat craft materials you happen to have

Directions:

Lay out three strips of packing tape face up. Carefully overlap the pieces to create a sticky sheet.
Use masking tape to attach your packing tape sheet to the table so you have a good work area.
Cut a piece of paper and on one side write the name and address of the recipient, on the other write a note or draw a picture.
Decorate!
Add your stamp to the upper left hand corner.
Use three more pieces of packing tape to cover your entire work area.
Peel your postcard off the table and trim off the masking tape, cutting your postcard into the shape you want.
Drop it in the mailbox and send it to your loved one!

Supplies:

Directions:

Carefully place an uncooked egg in a clear glass or plastic cup.
Pour enough vinegar into the cup to completely cover the egg.
Add some generous drops of food coloring and stir gently. If you want a rainbow of colors, prepare a few more cups.
Now it’s time to WAIT! Observe your eggs each day. The vinegar will slowly dissolve the eggshell over 2-3 days. You’ll see the liquid bubbling as this happens.
After 3-5 days, remove the eggs from the vinegar, and place them in a bowl of water. Gently rub away any remaining bubbly shell residue to reveal the membrane that lies just below it.
You can gently bounce your eggs! The eggs will be rubbery and bouncy but they are still raw on the inside. Bounce and press it to test just how rubbery it is … and beware, it may break! If it does, you can see what it looks like inside.