Think Next Year

My very thoughtful, genius friend, Brie, brought over some materials for a craft for Cooper.

Materials List:

• Smallish water bottle



• aluminum foil



• x-acto



• pencil



• water/glue solution in ziplock bag



• cheesecloth



• a very small piece of black felt



• googly eyes

Cut 2 "x"s on opposing sides of the water bottle. stick the pencil through (see above). Mold aluminum foil into a head shape on top of the bottle. Stick the cheesecloth in the ziplock and mush it, mush it good.



Then, very extremely carefully, take out the cheesecloth and unwad it, making a bizarre face while doing so.




Drape the cheesecloth over the bottle and let dry overnight. Try not to let a fly get trapped on it or under it (just a hypothetical possible situation).

Finally, let everyone think your child made this marvelous little craft item. When in reality, he did unwad MOST of the cheesecloth, but left the rest for his can't-leave-things-undone-most-of-the-time-mother. Ta Da!!!!

ps. You might want to be in charge of the x-acto knife unless you like making your kids learn things the cruel, painful way