Materials Needed:

· Film Container

· Cotton Balls

· Yarn

· Flower or Vegetable Seeds

· Screw Eye Hook

Instructions:
This works great with the clear containers. Put two-four cotton balls into the container.

Tuck in about a few seeds between the cotton balls and the outside of the container, so that you can see them.

Large seeds work best. Peas, Cantalope, etc. Add a few drops of water, just until cotton balls are damp, but not soaked and not enough to puddle water on bottom of container.

Use a screw-eye with a medium size eye on it and screw it through the center of the lid. Put the lid on the container tightly.

Braid three pieces of yarn long enough to go around the child's neck and slip over the head. Thread yarn through the screw eye and tie in a circle

Kids like to wear these necklaces and watch the seeds sprout and grow inside the container.

If you time this right, you can plant them into starter pots when they get too big for the container, or outside into the garden

Instructions to make simple candle holders out of jars and sand.

Materials Needed:

· Jars

· Sand

· Food Coloring

· Ribbon

· Glue

Instructions:
Place the sand in a glass or metal bowl and use the food coloring to tint it the desired color (you can also use rice). Fill the jar about two thirds full with the colored sand or rice. (It is easier to store these candle holders if you save the jar lids!) Glue and/or tie a ribbon around the top of the jar. Push a candle into the middle of the jar, pushing it into the sand.

Instructions for making a fun math game using an empty film container.

Materials Needed:

· Film Container

· 10 Beans

· Paint

· Misc Items to Decorate Container

Instructions:
Let the kids decorate the film container. My thoughts are to add wigglely eyes and some felt to make feet, arms, and a hat. Have available lace, material scraps, and other desired craft items.

Paint the beans with one color on one side and the other side with another color. Let the paint dry and then place the beans in the film container.

To play the game:
Place the lid on the container or your hand over the top, gently shake up the beans, and then dump them out.

Separate the beans by color and create an addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problem using the given numbers. Example: 3 red beans + 7 blue beans = ?.

Excellent way to practice math. You can also have your students estimate how many times a certain problem will be rolled out of 10 shakes.

Create fractions from the bean numbers rolled: 4 red beans and 6 blue beans = 4/6. Can it be reduced? Many options with this game!

Have fun. I bet your students could come up with some cute ways of using them as you start their creative juices flowing.

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