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Prickly Porcupine

MateHal9 For Each Child: brown and black comstarch clay several short lengths o! dry spaghetti

Cło99 Prepora+iong:

Make a batch of comstarch clay (see reripe on page 5). Add tempera paint to color most of the clay brown Reserve a smali portion and color rt black.

Plrectłong:

1. Mołd a piece of brown clay into a bali to make the porcupines body 1. Add smali balls of black clay for the nose and eyes.

3. Push short lengths of spaghetti into the porcupine‘s back to make guills.

“Wowl!”

Materłalg For Each Chfld:

1 sheet of construction paper with owi outJme brown. black. and gray tissue-paper pieces.

cut into 1 ’/3* sguares crayons and glue

Cla99 Prepdratlong:

Duplicate the owi pattem on page 36 on construction paper for each child. Cut a supply of brown. black. and gray tissue-paper squares. 1 */r" x 1 U?"

Direc+long:

1. Color the owl's face with crayons and draw on features.

7. Glue the top of each tissue-paper piece onto the owl‘s body in layers to resemble feathers.

3- Draw feet. as shown. with a black crayon.

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