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While the Pikes Peak Children's Water Festival has been cancelled for 2020, over a dozen partner organizations have provided educational water-related worksheets, activities, and interactive videos to promote the importance of this precious resource for 3^rd - 5^th graders. Find these materials on the Pikes Peak Children’s Water Festival website: https://coloradosprings.gov/waterfestival

Supplies:

• Paper towel cardboard tube
• Stapler
• Scissors
• Glue
• Pieces of cardboard
• 2-3 bamboo skewers
• Recycled materials and craft materials - can tabs, bottle caps, pipe cleaners, paper clips, etc.
• Stickers- optional
• Paint and paintbrush - optional
• Markers - optional

Directions:

1. Press down on one end of the paper towel tube and staple two times, closing up that end.
2. Cut a small v-shaped notch in the middle of the closed end of the tube, between the staples.
3. Decorate tube with paint, stickers, or markers.
4. Cut out pieces of corrugated cardboard. One rectangle about 6" x 4" and smaller rectangles and triangles. Paint or decorate.
5. Glue the open end of the cardboard tube onto the middle of the 6" x 4" rectangle piece of cardboard. Let dry 1-2 hours.
6. After you've decorated the cardboard pieces, take a bamboo skewer and carefully thread the pointed end of the skewer through the wavy corrugated spaces inside the cardboard until the skewer comes out the other side.

Do the same with another shape of cardboard on the other end of the skewer. Try balancing these two pieces by placing the skewer into the notch you created on the closed end of your cardboard tube.

7. Add various other pieces of recycled materials to each side of your balance art. See if you can still make it balance. Find the center of gravity, which is the point where where all the weight of your art piece is centered so balance can occur.
8. Decorate the base with caps or other recycled pieces.

Watch this project at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_spLdHMzeg

Supplies:

• Plain white paper - 1 sheet
• Construction paper - 1 sheet any color
• Scissors
• Glue (or tape)
• Markers
• Paper clips - 2
• Stickers (optional)

Directions:

1. 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.
2. Lay your hand down onto the paper, and trace around your fingers with a marker or pencil.
3. 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.
4. Take one hand for the front of the card and write something like, "Mom, I love you".
5. 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.)
6. On the accordion folded paper, write "THIS MUCH!".
7. Glue each end of the accordion folded paper onto the back side of each hand piece.
8. Decorate the front of your card with stickers or designs. Write your name on the back of your card.

Watch this project at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6TujsXzzc&list=PLMEg2Dd0dSFctLfDQxsL5…