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Sparkle Crafts Sparkle Craft: Hand-Dyed Playsilks
Imagination is a beautiful, wonderful thing. With a bit of imagination and a few simple tools, you can do virtually anything!
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Sparkle Crafts Sparkle Craft: Shoo-Crow Garland
Farmers and gardeners use all sorts of unexpected things to shoo unwanted birds from munching on their crops. It’s easy to spook a crow with unexpected movement, flashes of light or sound. Why not make a shoo-crow garland of your own to scare crows (or just look beautiful) in your own backyard?
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Sparkle Crafts Sparkle Craft: Fairy Boat Show
We'll show you how to make a simple raft, inspired by the Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays! story, "The Spring Fairy Boat Show."
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Sparkle Crafts Sparkle Craft: Lemonade (or Mud Pie) Stand Bunting
No matter what type of stand you’re setting up, lemonade — or mud pie — this festive bunting will be the icing on the cake. It’ll make your stand the most special one in town!
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Sparkle Crafts Sparkle Craft: Painted Stone Dominoes
Dominoes make a fun math game for all to enjoy — with painted stones, older children can match up the dots, while younger kids can match up just the colors.
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Sparkle Crafts Sparkle Craft: Felt Storytelling Board
Make a felt board to support kids' storytelling, giving them a chance to bring their stories to life. Inspired by the Martin & Sylvia: Saturdays! story, “When Pigs Fly."
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Sparkle Crafts Indoor Obstacle Course
If it's rainy and cold where you are, you don't need a gym or special equipment to set up your own obstacle course. With just a few common household items and a little space, you can quickly have your kids off to the races — trying to beat their best times and burning off some of that “stuck inside” energy.
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Sparkle Crafts Create Your Own Inside Fairy Doors
If the weather is turning where you are, to a time when there is more indoors than out, why not invite the fairies in for the winter? Make a fairy door, or several, to welcome them into your home for the winter months so they can weather the season with you in warmth.
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Sparkle Crafts Martin & Sylvia’s: Saturdays!: Printable Project Page: Messages
Use the paper airplane instructions in this printable project page, and you will end up with a paper airplane with ridged wings that can fly as far as Martin’s!
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Sparkle Crafts Nature School Project: Weaving with Nature
The campers of Goose-eye spent all year weaving a connection between the members of their group and eventually between members of other groups. What could be more perfect to represent this connection than a nature weaving?
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