By Michele Prior, R.N., M.S.N. A family vacation is a special time, but it may take some creativity to make traveling to your destination fun for your child. Fortunately, there are some activities...
The mysterious Mobius strip!
If you have a piece of paper, that paper will have two sides, right? If you wanted to, you could color one side red and the other side blue, couldn't you? And even if you roll the paper into a tube,...
Make an alligator long-arm
Levers make it easier to lift big and heavy things. They can also help you pick up things you can't quite reach. This alligator long-arm uses pairs of levers to make other levers move. Use the ruler...
Caps and hats
Soft cap To make a pattern, measure the distance around your head, plus 1 inch (2.5 cm). Then draw a line half this long on a sheet of paper. Measure up 9 inches (23 cm) from the center of this line...
Gooney bird
Materials 1. Make some papier-mache pulp (see papier-mache pulp, page 89). You will use the pulp in step 3. 2. To make the gooney bird's body, blow up a balloon and tie the neck tightly....
Bottle figure
Materials - bottle (plastic) - newspaper - paintbrushes - sand or salt - strip papier-mache - tempera paint ■ yarn 1. Find an empty plastic bottle (a detergent bottle works well). Pour ...
Lion wall decoration
1. Place a paper plate on a flat surface. Cover one side of the plate with two or three layers of papier-mache strips (see strip papier-mache, page 88). Be sure to smooth down all of the...
Woven mat
> Materials > > ■ newspaper (twelve sheets) > > ■ scissors > > ■ transparent tape > 1 Fold twelve double-page sheets of newspaper into strips. Open > each sheet and fold it in half the long...
