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Festive Maracas

Recycle yoghurt cups into a pair of festive maracas.

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Materials Needed

Yoghurt cups
Craft sticks
Beans or rice
White acrylic paint
Poster paint
Paint brushes
Palette
Craft knife
Hot glue gun

Safety Guidelines

Always let your child use child-safe scissors.
Keep the glue gun and the craft knife out of children's reach.
Watch out for this sign . It means you need an adult's help for the particular step.

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Steps

	1.	Wash two yoghurt cups and let them dry thoroughly.
	2.	Prime the cups, including the lids, with white acrylic paint. Let the paint dry completely.
	3.	Paint the cups with various colors of poster paint. Come up with your own unique designs.
	4.	Paint two craft sticks and set them aside to dry.
	5.	Cut a slit at the center of each lid just wide enough for a craft stick to get through.
	6.	Fill each yoghurt cup around one-third full with beans or rice.
	7.	Insert a craft stick through the slit on each lid. Fix the stick in place with a glue gun.
	8.	Fix the lid to the cup as well using the glue gun.
	9.	Once the glue dries, you can start shaking your pair of festive maracas.

Earth Friendly Tips

Once it's time to dismantle or dispose of your craft project, sort out the materials that you can recycle or reuse. You can use the seeds for fun activities such as the following:

Make a Seed Mosaic.
Use the seeds to make a bird feeder.
Plant the seeds. You can even use the yoghurt cups from your maracas as small pots.

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