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Kids Make: Sewing and Embroidering Fun

Using a sharpie, mark dots on your fabric which will guide you as you sew your design.
Thread your needle by pushing thread through the eye of the needle. Make a knot at the end of your piece of thread.
Start on the wrong side of your fabric or on the inside of your item, and push the needle up through the fabric through your starting dot. Bring all the thread through, slowly, making sure the thread doesn't tangle.
Go to the next dot in your design and push the needle down through that dot, bringing all the thread through again.
Continue until your first design is complete. Finish your design by weaving your needle through the thread on the wrong side of the fabric several times, making a couple loops so the thread will be secure. Cut the thread.
Re-thread for the next design or continue if you have enough thread on your needle.
Enjoy your original design!

Put a golf ball in a small bowl. Cover both the ball and bowl with plastic wrap, making sure the wrap hangs out over the edge. Push the plastic wrap down around the ball.
Mix a third cup baking soda into one cup of warm water and add food coloring. Mix well.
Pour the mixture into the small bowl and over and around the golf ball. Make sure you cover the ball with the baking soda/water mixture. You may need to spoon in some of the baking soda that sits at the bottom of the bowl of warm water.
Place the bowl in a flat place in the freezer. Freeze for at least 4 hrs.
When frozen solid, place the bowl in warm water so the ice comes loose. Place on a tray and lift the volcano out of the bowl. Pry out the golf ball with a spoon and carefully remove the plastic wrap.
Spoon on some vinegar and watch the icy volcano. This project is fun to do outside.
Refreeze your volcano for another day, if there's anything left.

Tablecloth
Paints (any kind, or water colors could work too)
Paintbrushes (any kind)
Paint tray
Tissue paper or construction paper (three sheets of different colors or just white works too)
Cardboard
Glue or Mod Podge
Yarn or string
Scissors
Dowel(s) or a coat hanger or a branch with yarn or string tied on.
Scissors

Cover your workspace with a table cloth or newspaper.
Spread out your tissue paper (or construction paper).
Apply paint to the tissue paper in broad strokes, (no need to cover the entire tissue paper with wet paint.) After the first color is dry, add another color. Let dry again before adding another color. Add designs too, like swirls or zigzags. Let tissue paper dry.
Take cardboard and draw large shapes like a star, crescent moon, square, circle, etc. Cut out the shapes.
When tissue paper is dry, tear into smaller pieces (but not tiny pieces).
Water down some glue or use Mod Podge to cover a cardboard piece, then place a piece of painted tissue paper onto the glued piece of cardboard. Trim any excess tissue paper. Paint glue over the tissue paper too. Repeat with several shapes and allow all pieces to dry.
With a grown-up's help, poke a hole at one end of each cardboard shape. Using different lengths of string or yarn, string up your shapes.
Hang your stringed shapes from your branch or dowel. If you're using two dowels, you can tie them together first by crossing them and tying string or yarn where they intersect.
Adjust your hanging shapes along the dowel so that it's balanced when it hangs. Hang your mobile art up for all to admire.