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Children can glue the panel pieces of a cartoon onto the sides of milk cartons in proper sequence and turn the boxes to make their own animated cartoons. Or, they can cut the cartoon characters in sections and glue the pieces together to make crazy mixed up creatures. They can tape record conversations among these created characters. Because of the comic’s bright colours, the pages make excellent gift wrap, bows and flowers for decoration. They also make colourful wreaths or coverings for small toy containers, waste baskets, shoe boxes or other small boxes that can be used as desk or room organisers. Coat the items with shellac to make them washable and more durable. Trace children’s feet on newspaper pages and have them cut out a number of footprints. From headlines find large alphabet letters to glue on each footprint and mount these over the walls, around doors, up the walls, even on the ceiling. You can do the same thing with a number series of footprints. Younger students can put their names and the date on the footprints and then retrace one every six months or so, comparing sizes. Children are amazed at how quickly their feet grow. With older students, you can have them count the number of words in the area covered by their foot, and find the average for the class or group. |
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