Crafts for Children

It depends on the shade of red the pink came from.Cool pinks like those from magenta with purple will give you a color called plum.

Mid Pinks like those from your rubyreds, cherry reds, rose reds, will provide a rich burgundy color.

Warm Pinks Pinks like from the regular color red will give you Maroon to Mahogany

Orange Pinks like Peach will give you a Maroon thango backto Mahogany.

Maroon is the color of a chestnut.

Read more:What_color_does_black_and_pink_make

Here is a site for an idea:

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• http://www.deepfriedkudzu.com/2005/11/buckeye-garland.html

Other sites with more ideas

• http://www.theartmajorcrafts.com/index.htm
• http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_natural_homemade/article/0,2025,DIY_13767_5077833,00.html

I made a beautiful wreath. I started with a spiral twig/grapevine wreath that I found at Hobby Lobby for $7.50. I wanted to add a ring of buckeyes near the center of the wreath. I collected about 25 good buckeyes and poked holes in each side of the buckeyes with a hammer and nail. This allows the moisture within to release itself (otherwise the Buckeyes will mildew, shrink and become lopsided). Next, I ran green craft wire through the buckey and wired each to the wreath. Since the circular pattern I was making seemed a bit out of perfect order, I used a hot glue gun to hold them better into place. Hold each for about 30 seconds into place where you want them, until the glue dries. Once the circle was completed, I clipped wheat (dried flower section of store) into 7 inch long pieces. I then inserted them in a spiral fashion into the grapevines, and secured with a tiny dot of glue from the hot glue gun. I added a bronze colored silk wire reinforced ribbon, woven throughout the wreath. I then glued a long dangly/crinkly bow with ribbon streamers at the bottom. The end result was stunning! The contrast of the light colored wheat, the dark buckeyes and ribbon worked perfectly. I stayed with as much natural adornment as possible. If the buckeyes loose their shine, you can always spray then with Helman's Indoor/Outdoor Polyeurathane (any Wal-Mart sells this in a spray can for about $8.). This will protect everything outside, if you choose to hang the wreath on your door.

There are some good "how to make" websites/videos on the Internet but here is a way to make a simple slip on/off one:

You will need:

Thin thread (coloured is best)

1) Firstly, cut off a small section of string and wrap it round your model's muzzle/nose if it fits round tie it at the end so you model has a ring round his muzzle if it doesn't fit, try again!

2) Secondly, take the ring off your model , get the rest of the string you haven't used and tie it on to the ring anywhere you like!

3) Finally, put the ring back on your model's muzzle and grab the long dangling rope you tied on earlier and take it round behind your model's ears and tie it onto the ring you put on earlier opposite the other knot you made on the other side (you might want to take the ring off the model's muzzle to tie the second knot)

P.S make sure its not too tight and a bit big on you model otherwise you won't be able to take it off!

Hope this helped!

About age appropriate activities: I worked with children in a daycare before I ever learned the concept of age appropriate activities. They were two-year-olds and everything I knew about their capabilities I learned from observance.I also knew they loved their craft activities, and part of my job was to teach them. In a matter of a few months, those children, for the most part, had improved their coloring, cutting, and pasting skills a great deal, some to the point where they were cutting on the lines and coloring within the lines (most of the time), and had fairly good conrol of the glue sticks we used. The children were not stressed because it was fun for them. If I perceived a child needed help, I would help them by putting my hand over their hand to help cut, color, paste, etc. This group flourished!

On the other hand, I later worked in an environment where age appropriate activities were stressed very heavily. This time, I worked with four-year-olds. The administration at this establishment controlled everything we did as teachers and nothing that was not considered to be age appropriate could be done with the children. I found this to be a hindrance, rather than something positive for the growth of the children. Though they were four-year-olds, the expectations for them based on age appropriateness was less than the expectations I had for the two-year-olds based on observance. As a result, these children, I felt, were held back from their true abilities.

I would like to add here that it is always best to set high, though not so high that the child can not succeed, expectations for all children based upon what they are capable of doing in the present. The concept of age appropriateness does not do that. It groups all children into the same mold and allows for no individual differences. I would say that the expectations set are way below what is actually the average ability of a given age, and it is well known that children will almost always live up or down to whatever expectations are set for them. In the case of age appropriateness, my experience has shown that observing children to determine their capabilities, and providing activites that are designed to take the child a little farther, is a much better way to decide what craft activities to provide.

well i think you should watch over your kids alot