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LM>                               Salt Dough
LM>2 cups of salt, 2/3 cup water, 1 cup cornstarch, additional
  >1/3 cup COLD water and acrylic paint or food coloring.
  >Place salt and 2/3 cup water in small saucepan and heat until
  >quite warm. Remove from heat. Mix cornstarch and COLD water
  >together, add to salt mixture stirring constantly. Return pan
  >to heat and keep stirring until mixture forms a smooth mass.
  >Turn out on a plate and cover with damp cloth until cool.
  >work in color as desired or leave natural. Covered (zip bag)
  >& refrigerated, Salt Dough will keep indefinitely.
LM>Shape on foil covered cookie sheet and let dry (Several
  >hours in a warm oven or several days at room temperature).
  >You can sand rough edges with an emery board when dry.
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LM>                              Finger Paints
LM>1/2 cup cornstarch, 1 cup cold water, 1 envelope unflavored
  >gelatin, 2 cups hot water, 1/2 cup detergent or soap flakes
  >and food coloring to desired color intensity.
  >Divide cold water, dissolve gelatin in 1/4 cup and dissolve
  >cornstarch in 3/4 cup cold water. Add hot water to cornstarch
  >mixture and cook over medium heat stirring constantly until
  >it comes to a boil and is clear. Remove from heat blend in
  >softened gelatin. Add detergent or soap flakes and stir until
  >dissolved. Store in closed jars. Add food color as desired.
  >Use on coated paper such as shelf paper or butcher paper.
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LM>                    Happy Face Veggie Magnets
LM>MATERIALS:
  >Bread dough in green, yellow and orange  (recipes given use the one you 
like
  >Small magnets or magnet tape
  >Toothpick or craft stick modeling tool
  >Wax paper or plastic wrap
  >Thick designer tacky glue
  >Fine line Sharpie pen to draw faces (Optional tiny glue on wiggle eyes)
  >Cover work space with waxed paper or plastic wrap (newspaper will leave
  >print on the
  >bread dough.
LM>INSTRUCTIONS:
LM>CORN:  yellow and green dough.  Roll out small piece of yellow dough to 
1/8"
  >thickness and cut to shape "A" make small balls of yellow and arrange in
  >rows to
  >cover shape "A".  Roll out green dough to 1/8" thickness.  With modeling
  >tool cut
  >out 2 leaf shapes arrange one leaf up each side of yellow balls to look
  >like an ear of corn.
  >Set aside to dry.  Draw a HAPPY FACE on corn and glue magnet to back.
LM>PEAS IN A POD:  green dough.  Roll out a small piece of dough to 1/8"
  >thickness and
  >cut to shape a pod (a long elipical oval and set aside.  Make 5 small 
alls
  >of dough
  >and arrange along the center toward the top half of shape, fold the bottom
  >half of
  >shape up and the top edge down to form the pod.  Set aside to dry.
  >Draw a HAPPY FACE on each pea and glue magnet to back.
LM>CARROT:  orange and green dough.  Roll out green dough to 1/8" thickness 
and
  >cut into narrow strips (use 3 or 5) arrange in a fan shape.  Using orange
  >dough
  >shape a carrot, place with wide end over the green "fan" of leaves.  Set
  >aside to dry.
  >Draw a HAPPY FACE on the carrot and glue on magnet.
LM>Using this same idea you can make radish, lettuce, tomato and a variety of
  >fruit
  >in addition to those detailed above.  Imagination can provide other fruits
  >and vegetables.
  >Happy face fruits and veggies can be tied into good nutrition lessons.
LM>                    The Girl Scout Leader Resource Center
  >            Learn about scouting and see the list of craft links.
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