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Calendar of Recycle Art and Craft Projects
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MOTHERS DAY FLOWER
Tools
White glue
Stale white bread
Food Processor
Paint - red and green
Twig
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1. Pull the crust off 4 sliced of unfresh bread. Tear the bread up and place in the food processor to make bread crumbs. Place crumbs on an old pie tin.
2. Stir in a few table spoons of white paper glue. Then kneed the dough Until it in not sticky. Wash and dry your hands.
3. Divide the ball of dough into two sections. Add a few drops of red paint to one part and green paint to the second part. Work the paint in each section until the paint is coming off your hands and the dough is not sticky.
4. Make 11 pea size balls of red dough and 4 pea size balls of green dough.
5. Flatten one ball paper thin by press in between your thumb and fingers. This is the first petal of the rose. Wrap the petal around the tip of the twig. Flatten another red ball the wrap this petal around the first petal. Continue in this manner until all the petal are wrapped around the twip.
6. Flatten the green balls in the same manner creating the leaves of the flower.
7. Let the flower air dry for about a day.
8. Store the unused dough in a plastic bag in the refridgerator.
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