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Coconut Mice

Materials for Cach Chlld:

coconut mixture

1    smali piece of waxed paper

2    shelled almonds

3    silver candy balls 1 length of licorice

Class Preparatfons:

To make coconut mixture for 12 children. mix together 10 02 of confectioner's powdered sugar and 8 02. of sweetened condensed milk in a mixing bowl. Stir in 7 oz. of flaked coconut. Add a few drops of red food colonng. Divide the mixture into 12 equal pans.

Pirections:

1. Roli the coconut mixture into a bali Place on a piece of waxed paper Z. Mold one side of the bali into a point to make a nose.

3- Push in two almonds for ears.

4. Add silver balls for the nose and eyes and a length of licorice for a taił Allow to dry ovemight.

Little Nibbler

Materials For Cach Chlld:

’/a sheet of 9* x 12“ yellow construction paper 1 gray construction-paper square. 3" x 3’ cork. round building błock, or bottle top black tempera pamt in a shallow tray fine-tip markers. Short length of stnng and glue

Cla9S Preparations:

Cut sheets of 9* x 12* yellow construction paper in half diagonally to make two tnangles Cut gray paper into 3“ sguares. Provide each child with one yellow triangle and one gray sąuare.

Pirections*.

1. To make a piece of holey cheese, print bfack circłes on the yellow paper triangle using a cork, round building błock, or bottle top dipped in pamt Z. Fold the gray square in half diagonally to make a triangular mouse. O 3. Use markers to add eyes. a nose. and a mouth to each side of the mouse.

■4. Glue on a strmg taił.

5. Place the mouse on top of the cheese.

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