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Personalized Cups

Every birthday girl, bachelorette, or child needs a special personalized cup to make their day just a little more special. You can make these personalized party cups in just under fifteen minutes. It truly is the easiest craft that will brighten anyone’s day no matter what the occasion. Follow these simple steps to one very cool cup!

Materials: A polycarbonate cup, usually sold with outside dishware or in the patio section. This cup looks like a glass, but is made out of a very hard plastic. All the beauty without the worry of breaking. You will also need embellishments such as stickers, ribbon, and adhesive gems.

Step One: Wash the cup so that it is clean for the recipient.

Step Two: Begin adding your stickers, gems, and other embellishments in random places on the cup. I made a design on the stem of the glass with gems.

Step Three: Tie a ribbon at the bottom/stem of the glass.

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Lion Puppet

During the summer children tend to get restless. Let their imaginations run with this lion puppet. Once they have completed the craft, have them put on a show!

Materials: Two paper bags, construction paper (black, white, and yellow or orange), hole punch, scissors, glue and scissors that cut with a design.

Step One: Using black construction paper trace one big triangle for the lions nose,and six smaller triangles for the lions claws. Then hole punch two holes in the black construction paper for the lions eyes.

Step Two: Using the second paper bag, trace two arms and two ovals for the lions ears. Note: Do not glue anything to the paper bag until the end or else the mane will not fit over the bag.

Step Three: Using a large sheet or orange or yellow construction paper, cut out a large circle using the design scissors.

Step Four: Using regular scissors, cut a hole in the center of the mane, just large enough for the paper bag to slip through.

Step Five: Trace ovals, smaller than the ears you traced from the paper bag, onto the white construction paper. This will be the inner part of the lions ear. See picture below for details.

Step Six: Once you have slipped the mane through the bottom of the paper bag, begin gluing the eyes, nose, ears, and arms to the original paper bag.

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