Do It Now! Crafts

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DO IT NOW!

 COOL ART PROJEC P ROJECTS TS & TAST ASTY Y SNACKS

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contents • how to use this book

1

take aim with a catapult

22

create silhouette portraits

2

re a pen crossbow

23

draw a cat

3

design a kite

24

sketch a dog

4

y a kite

25

draft a horse

5

fold a paper airplane

26

draw awesome manga

6

whip out a ninja star

27

ip out with a ip book

7

marbleize pretty paper

28

pop out a 3-d card

8

cut festive papel picado

29

sport a comic-book tote

9

paste up a piñata

30

beautify sneakers

10

light paper-bag luminarias

31

punk up high-tops

11

ll a sea globe

32

trick out slip-ons

12

pour a sand candle

33

fashion a no-sew skirt

13

weave a friendship bracelet

34

paint one-of-a-kind nails

14

hook a gum-wrapper chain

35

make a crazy ponytail

15

link a daisy chain

36

ink a fake tattoo

16

tie-dye a stripy shirt

37

annoy with a balloon horn

17

tie-dye a swirly shirt

38

toot a straw horn

18

cover an mp3 player

39

wire cereal-box speakers

19

roll up a duct-tape rose

40

screen-print a t-shirt

20

bead charms

41

make a compact disc-o ball

21

mold clay monsters

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• tell me more • index • about the authors • credits

42

roll candy sushi

65

grill cheese on a stick

43

pull tasty taffy

66

bake a cake in an orange

44

kick up some ice cream

67

cook campre candy apples

45

make fruity soda pop

68

concoct chocolate anthills

46

build a jiggly city

69

make edible fake barf

47

make a dessert aquarium

48

bake stained-glass cookies

49

adorn a gingerbread house

50

make icing “glue”

51

separate an egg

52

make fortune-cookie dough

53

fold fortune cookies

54

freeze smoothie pops

55

blend a smoothie

56

make chewy fruit leather

57

roll pasta dough

58

fold tortellini

59

enjoy purple pasta

60

dye rainbow celery

61

twist up soft pretzels

62

chill refrigerator pickles

63

sculpt snack art

64

roast veggies in the wild

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a word to parents The activities in this book are designed for children ages ten and older. While we have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book is accurate, reliable, and totally cool, please assess your own child’s suitability for a particular activity before allowing him or her to attempt it, and provide adult supervision as appropriate. We disclaim all liability for any unintended, unforeseen, or improper application of the suggestions featured in this book. We will, however, be happy to accept the credit for increased awesomeness.

tell me more

Flip to the back of the book for extra info about this activity, including trivia, special techniques, history, or the science that makes it all happen.

This project helps you recycle old junk you probably have at your house. Go green!

uses recyclables

Wear old clothes, put down newspapers, and warn the parents. This one will be messy!

messy

15

min

The timer shows the number of hours, minutes, or seconds you should spend doing a step.

The thermometer indicates the temperature to which you should heat or cool an ingredient.

tool kit

This symbol tells the number of times you should repeat a particular action.

Here are some basic items that you probably have at home, so they aren’t listed in the toolbars. Pack a tool kit, and keep it handy!

The calendar’s x’s shows the number of days, weeks, or months that a step requires.

Follow the little asterisk in a step to the larger one on the page for information about alternative methods or materials, or for tips. scissors

tape

glue

utensils

pen, pencil, and marker

water

plain paper

containers

dead pen

rotary tool

fre a pen crossbow

2

Take apart a pen that has run out o ink.

Drill a small hole in the middle o the tube.

Push the hollow tip through the hole.

Cut two notches in each end.

Secure the pen perpendicular to a pencil.

Place a rubber band in the notches.

Tape the clothespin on so it can still open.

Load the ink tube through the hollow tip.

Clip the rubber band into the clothespin. Take aim and fre, but never at people or animals!

11

fll a sea globe

1 Clean a small jar and remove the label.

distilled water

2 Soak beach shells and sand to clean.

6

3 drops mineral oil

distilled water

5

4

3

34

paint one-of-a-kind nails

1 2 1

1 Let dry.

3 2

1

2

Press onto polish. Let dry.

4

Let dry.

Add to wet polish.

2

3

1

2 3

Let dry.

parchment paper

sugar-cookie dough

bake stained-glass cookies

Roll out prepared cookie dough.

Use a our-coated cookie cutter to cut out cookies.

Set on parchment paper and cut holes.

8

Fill a bag with hard candy. Crush with a rolling pin.

350˚F (175˚C)

min

Cut the tip off the plastic bag.

Sprinkle the crushed candies into the holes.

Bake until light brown.

Let the sun shine through!

tell me more

48

64

roast veggies in the wild

1

grill cheese on a stick

1

2 Cut the veggies into equal-size pieces.

65

Toss with olive oil, Toss salt, and pepper.

2

Scrape the bark off part of a forked stick.

Butter one side of each bread slice.

5

min

3

3

4 Put the veggies on a square of tinfoil.

Fold into a packet.

4

Put cheese between the unbuttered sides.

Hold over the re.

5

min

10

min

5 Add to coals. Flip after ve minutes.

6

5 Unwrap and enjoy!

6 When it browns, move away and ip.

Grill the other side.

WELDON OWEN INC. CEO, President Terry Newell VP, Sales and New Business Development Amy Kaneko VP, Publisher Roger Shaw Creative Director Kelly Booth

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Special thanks to:

Executive Editor Mariah Bear

Storyboarders

Do It Now! Crafts: Cool Art Projects & Tasty Snacks

Esy Casey, Julumarie Joy Cornista, Sarah Lynn Duncan,

Copyright © 2012 by Weldon Owen Inc.

Chris Hall, Paula Rogers, Jamie Spinello, Brandi Valenza

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be

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from the publisher.

Gurman, Susan Jonaitis, Peter Masiak, Grace Newell,

Production Director Chris Hemesath

Excerpted from Show Off, rst published by

Jennifer Newens, Paul Ozzello, Ben Rosenberg, Hiya

Production Manager Michelle Duggan

Candlewick Press in 2009.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012932623

Kid-reviewer panel

Senior Editor Lucie Parker Project Editor Frances Reade Assistant Editors Emelie Grifn, Katharine Moore Senior Designers Stephanie Tang, Meghan Hildebrand Designer Delbarr Moradi

Emma Arlen, Leah Cohen, Sally Elton, Whitman Hall,

ISBN 13: 978-1-61628-390-2

Tesserae Honor, Nami Kaneko, Emily Newell,

ISBN 10: 1-61628-390-4

Eloise Shaw, Georgia Shaw

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Printed in China by SNP Leefung Typeset in Vectora LH

Illustration credits Front cover

Gabhor Utomo: marbleized paper, piñata, tie-dyed shirt,

5–6, 14, 44–45, 49–50, 64, 66–67 Hank Osuna: 42 fr, 61–62

Raymond Larrett: kite Liberum Donum (Juan Calle,

screen-print Tina Cash Walsh: pasta dough

Vincent Perea: 36 Ross Sublett: 33 bg, 35 bg Bryon

Santiago Calle, Andres Penagos): taffy Bryon Thompson: fortune cookie Gabhor Utomo: tie-dyed shirt Back cover Britt Hanson: sea globe, snack sculpture Gary Henricks: sand candle Vic Kulihin: catapult, straw horn Raymond Larrett: kite, stained-glass cookies Liberum Donum (Juan Calle, Santiago Calle, Andres Penagos): comic-book tote Christine Meighan: cake in an orange, paper airplane Vincent Perea: fake tattoo Otis Thomson: ip book

Interiors Key: bg = background; bd = border; fr = frames; ex = extra art

Thompson: 20–21, 28, 51–56 Otis Thomson: 27 Taylor Tucek: 39 Gabhor Utomo: 7, 9, 13, 16–17, 30–32 bg, 40, 41 bg, 59 bg, 69 Tina Cash Walsh: 18–19, 30–32 fr, 33 fr, 41 fr, 57–58, 65

Henry Boyle: 37 Hayden Foell: 45 ex Britt Hanson: 11, 15, 22, 34, 42 bg, 60, 63 Gary Henricks: 12 Joshua Kemble: 59 fr Vic Kulihin: 1–2, 38 Raymond Larrett: 3–4, 8, 10, 48 Liberum Donum (Juan Calle, Santiago Calle, Andres Penagos): 23–26, 29, 35, 43, 46–47, 68 Christine Meighan: