One of the best parts of the kids’ summer has been the weeks they’ve spent with my niece watching over them.
That’s because she’s not really content to just watch over them. She always has some sort of activity planned or adventure to go on.
Yesterday, she took the kids to a thrift store, picked out a set of plain dishes and had them make their own designs with Sharpie pens. Bake for 20 minutes and the ink is permanent I’m told. The directions are here. Way cool.
But today was the best. On Pinterest, she found this activity to turn throw-away chopsticks into Harry Potter wands. A little hot glue, old beads and acrylic pain and voila…a wand that looks like it came straight out of Ollivander’s shop.
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