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                                    AlaskaParent.com spring 2024 alaska parent 41YARD ART Spring sports practice always requires more bottled water. Here are two fun ways to use empty bottles to decorate your yard:Glue Sun Catcher This is a craft you may prefer to do outside. You will need a few plastic dairy lids from yogurt and sour cream tubs, food coloring, toothpicks, and white glue. Pour glue to fill only the surface of the dairy lids. Too much glue requires a lot of drying time. Squeeze 2-5 drops of food coloring inside the lids and stretch the color around with a toothpick. Allow drying for several days before removing from the lid. Make a small hole near the top of one side and add a fishing wire to hang from the window. (For a tutorial of this glue sun catcher, visitcraftsbyamanda.com/colorful-sun-catcher-glue) Pool Noodle Sailboats The spring rain leaves plenty of opportunity to play in the water as it collects in neighborhood streams and large puddles. To make sailboats, cut 1\noodle and lay it flat like a donut. Use scissors to make a hole for a plastic straw mast that measures about 4\poking holes through them for the straw to fit through. (For a tutorial of these pool noodle boats, visit thebestideasforkids.com) Wind spiralsUse colorful permanent markers to color the outside of four or five empty water bottles. Cut off the bottom half inch and discard. Cut the rest of the bottle in a one-piece spiral up to an inch before the bottom of the water bottle spout. Now, take a small dead branch or dowel rod and place it through the water bottle spouts. Add yarn or floral wire on the ends of the stick so it can hang from a nearby tree and blow in the wind. (For a tutorial of these wind spirals, visit dianarambles.com) Bottle cap flowersHot glue the lids in the shape of a flower by placing one cap in the middle and six caps around the outside. When the flower shape dries, you can hot glue a wooden dowel on the back so you can stake it in the ground. Paint or decorate as desired. (For a tutorial on these bottle cap flowers, visit suburbia-unwrapped.com) 
                                
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