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Make a Dining Room Table
You will need an empty cardboard box and some stiff paper such as poster board. Cut 4 long strips for the legs, and one narrow strip to cover the sides of the table top.
Cut off the end of a cardboard box. This becomes the table top. Cut a rectangle of poster board about 1/2 inch wider and longer than the box (1/4 inch bigger on each side.) Glue the rectangle to the top of the table top. Cut a strip of poster board the same width as the width of the edge of the table top and glue the strip to the sides of the cardboard box,
Make legs for the table by rolling up each long strip of poster board around a skewer. Glue the end so it doesn’t come unrolled.
Glue each leg in a corner of the underside of the table top. Be sure to glue the legs to the two sides of each corner, too, to make it a sturdier bond.
Flower Centerpiece
Make a vase and flower centerpiece for your table. Use a large wooden or plastic bead for a vase--just make sure it can stand on side of the bead without wobbling or rolling around. It is hard to make flowers that look real, so the easiest way is going to be to use real dried flowers.
Cut small leaves out of green paper. Fold each leaf in half to make the vein. Cut thin strips out of the paper and wrap them around a toothpick to curl the ends. Poke the ends into the hole in the bead. If you don’t have a bead, you can make a vase out of self drying clay.
Status is a kind of flower that is often used as filler for fresh flower arrangements. When you throw away the drooping flowers, save the status, and hang it upside down till dry. It keeps it’s pretty colors even after it has dried.
Chairs
Glue paper to the outside of a toilet paper tube or paper towel tube. Cut the tube from end to end. Use a bottle cap to draw a circle about an inch from the bottom. Cut parallel to the bottom of the tube straight across to the bottom of the circle on both sides, and up around the circle. The circle becomes the back of the chair. Put a bottle cap, such a s a Coke cap for the seat of the chair and squeeze till the cardboard tube fits snuggly. Take the bottle cap back out, put glue from a glue gun on the side of the bottle cap that will be just below the circle. Hold in place till the glue is hardened. Put glue around the rest of the sides of the cap, and squeeze the cardboard tube around it. Hold till glue is hardened (a few seconds.) This part can be a little tricky, but by the 4th chair, you figure out how to do it! Don’t worry--your kids won’t notice the difference between the “good ones” from the “bad ones” unless you point it out to them--so don’t tell them! If the bottle caps have writing on them, you might be able to rub it off with some nail polish remover on toilet paper or tissue. Another way to hide it is to glue felt or fabric to the top of the cap before you glue it into the chair.
Plates or Dishes
Cut out small circles from white plastic containers or stiff paper such as poster board. Use small bottle caps to draw circles. The plastic container should be soft enough to cut with scissors, though it may be easier to get a hole started with a craft knife. The plastic container shown here is milk bottle. If you want the plates to have a rim, bend the edges up with your fingernails or with a pair of tweezers. They won’t be perfect, but that’s o.k.. You can make salad plates, dinner plates, and platters, if you can find bottle caps or pen caps the right size.
Placemats
Cut out small rectangles from colored paper or felt for placemats. A table cloth won’t work very well because fabric doesn’t drape well on this scale.
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