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Since summer is coming to an end I wanted to do a craft that would allow us to combine some of the fun things that we might have found at the beach. This is an easy project that can be done with just about anything and can be done on all sorts of bottles. The great thing, I have found, about these bottles is that they can given as gifts for any occasion.

Materials Needed:

• Empty diffuser bottle
• Seashells
• Glass beads
• Colored/stained sea glass
• Strong hold glue- I used Gorilla Glue
• Craft stick- used to apply glue
• Sand-this is optional

Instructions:

1. Clean bottle if it contains any labels and glue. Lay out some newspaper to protect your workspace and lay the bottle down flat on the newspaper.
2. Glue on the sea glass, seashells and beats. If you have chosen to use sand you can leave spaces between the sea glass pieces to sprinkle to sand onto the glue.
3. All that is left is to let the glue dry completely before moving or gifting your new diffuser bottle.

So I was looking for something unique to add to our home decor and found this amazing lamp shade. I have never seen anything like this but loved it immediately. It is also a great way to recycle those cocktail umbrellas after you have a party or get together. This lamp shade is a piece that will make your home decor stand out and have people talking about it.

Materials Needed:

• Cocktail Umbrellas in all designs and colors
• Hard, hollow plastic ball-any shape and size as long as it can fit a bulb inside
• Light bulb

Instructions:

1. Start by taking the plastic ball and cut a 5cm radius. This will be where you place the light bulb when you are finished.
2. Next you will take the cocktail umbrellas and one by one poke them into the sides of the ball. If you have problems poking the toothpicks through the ball you can use something sharp like a safety pin to make the holes. Continue to poke them through the ball until the ball is filled.
3. This can then be placed over the bulb and used to decorate any room.

Since school has begun, I thought this week I would celebrate it by doing an educational craft. I love science so making a simple erupting volcano was perfect. It is the perfect craft to teach kids with because it has a little bit of everything from geography to chemistry. Plus it is something fun to watch.

Materials Needed:

1. Attach the paper cup to the plate by taping the bottom of the cup to the middle of the plate.
2. Tear off a piece of foil large enough to completely cover the cup and plate.
3. Place the foil over the cup and plate and turn the foil under the plate edge.
4. Tape the foil in place.
5. Poke a hole through the foil into the middle of the cup.
6. Use scissors to make slits from the middle of the cup to the inside edge of the cup. Tape the foil to the inside of the cup. (see photo)
7. Now make your volcano erupt! (see below)

How to Erupt:

1. Place the volcano on a pan or tray (or you’ll get lava all over the place!)
2. Fill the volcano with 2 tablespoons of water and stir in a tablespoon of baking soda until it dissolves.
3. Measure 2 tablespoons of vinegar into a separate cup.
4. Pour the vinegar, all at once into the water/baking soda mixture and watch your lava bubble up!

Now that it is August, parents all over the country are having to think about kids going back to school. This of course means thinking about buying school supplies that your kids will like and want to take to school. This is an easy way to make sure your kids will like their school supplies as well as something that they can do themselves when they need new notebooks for school.

Materials Needed:

• Notebooks
• Tacky Glue
• Pipe Cleaners, whichever colors you want
• Constructions Paper

Instructions:

1. Spruce up a plain spiral bound notebook with bold stripes by using tacky glue to stick pipe cleaners (the extra wide, fuzzy type work especially well) onto the cover.
2. Fold the pipe cleaner ends against the top and bottom edges of the inner cover, then conceal them with a glued-on sheet of colored paper on the inside of the cover.