FEBRUARY 2004

BROWN BAGGIN' IT!


It doesn't take much to make me happy! Paper lunch sacks, a little imagination, children, and we'll have a party! I hope you'll be happy, too, with these fun and inexpensive projects you can create with paper bags!

TREE


Materials: lunch sack

Directions:

1. Tear down four strips from the top of the lunch sack half way down.
2. Open the lunch sack, grab in the middle, and twist.
3. Fluff up strips to look like branches on a tree.


Adaptations:

Make a "letter tree" by writing letters and words on the strips.


Tear orange, yellow, red construction paper into little pieces and glue on the branches to make an autumn tree.


Twist strips to look like a deciduous tree in the winter.Use a sponge to add white paint to the branches. Sprinkle with iridescent glitter.


To make a spring tree, tear little pieces of pink or white tissue paper. Wad up, dip in glue, and attach to the branches to look like blossoms.

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