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These pretty rainbow rocks are perfect for brightening up your desk! With just some nail polish and water, you can transform an ordinary rock into your own marbled paperweight.Want to explore more fun crafts without the hassle of gathering materials? Get hands-on and make visually stunning candles with a <a href="https://www.kiwico.com/us/store/dp/geometric-candles-project-kit/5647" target="_self">Geometric Candles project</a> from the <a href="https://www.kiwico.com/store" target="_self">KiwiCo Store</a>!

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Find an interesting rock outside and clean off the dirt with some water. Once dry, paint the rock white. Allow the first coat of paint to dry, and then apply a second coat. Optional: For fall fun, buy some mini pumpkins to marble! If you can’t find white ones, just buy orange ones and paint them white or leave them orange and see what cool designs you can make!

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Fill a bowl with cold water. Make sure your bowl is deep enough and you have enough water to completely submerge your rock.

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Add one drop of your first color into the bowl. The color will spread out. Then, add another drop of a different color to the center of the first color. Continue to add one drop of color at a time in the center of the previous color. Be quick when adding more colors, nail polish will harden if it sits still for too long. 

Do steps 5 and 6 quickly before your design solidifies.

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Time to create marble designs with your toothpick! 

First create a horizontal line through the colors. Start by poking the center and pulling slowly to the right. Then return to the center and pull slowly to the left.

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Next, make lines from the top to the bottom of the nail polish. For a cool effect, alternate from top to bottom and then from bottom to top.

To prevent the nail polish film from clumping, it helps to start the lines from the second and third rings of your outer colors.

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When you are done marbling the nail polish, dip your rock slowly in the center of your nail polish design. Submerge the rock underwater and then slowly remove it. 


Optional: If you’re dipping a pumpkin, hold the pumpkin by its stem and dip it into the water left side first, then bottom, then right side. Your hand should make the shape of a U in the air as you do this. You can also try dipping it in stem first!

For a clean result, remove excess nail polish with your finger or toothpick before you remove the rock from the water. This will prevent it from sticking to your rock as you pull it out.

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Set your rock or pumpkin to the side to dry. See the immediate and colorful result of your marble design! Now you can enjoy it on your desk or gift it to a friend.

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What else can you marble? Have fun experimenting!

rocks

white paint

paintbrush

nail polish - various colors

bowl

toothpicks

pumpkins - mini

Marbled Paperweight

Earth Day crafts

dinosaur

Create your own fossils out of salt dough!Looking to spark fun and learning for a young dinosaur-loving adventurer? Use tools to excavate bones just like a real paleontologist with a <a href="https://www.kiwico.com/us/store/dp/paleontologist-starter-kit/5844" target="_self">Paleontologist Starter Kit</a> from the <a href="https://www.kiwico.com/store" target="_self">KiwiCo Store</a>!

Fossils are how we know anything about living things from the ancient world, like dinosaurs. Fossils form under just the right conditions, when a dead animal or plant is encased in dirt and sediment. Over hundreds of years, the living thing’s organic matter is traced or replaced by minerals. The fossil rock that remains can last for hundreds of millions of years, longer than any tissue from the living thing itself.The only trouble with fossils is that they need the right conditions to form, and they take a looong time to make. But what if you could make your own fossils in under two hours? Try out this project to find out how!

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Mix 2 cups of flour and 1 cup of salt together in the mixing bowl. 

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Gradually add 1 cup of water, stirring as you go, until you have a dough-like consistency. We added several drops of red, yellow, and blue food coloring to make a greenish water that turns the dough brown. 

Don’t make the dough too wet! You may not need a whole cup of water.  

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Form the dough into a ball, dust it with flour, and knead it for at least 5 minutes.

The longer you knead your dough, the smoother it will be. If your dough gets too sticky, add more flour to the dough, your hands, or your kneading surface. 

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Roll your dough out to about ½-inch to ¼-inch thickness. 

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Cut circles out of the dough using either a cookie cutter or a glass. 

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Press your dinosaurs into the dough. Then, carefully remove them. Either let your dinosaur fossils air dry, or bake them in the oven at 200 degrees for 2-3 hours.

Paleontologists (scientists who study ancient life like dinosaurs) call the kind of fossil you just made a mold fossil. That’s because the sediment (the dough) formed a mold around the dinosaur body, preserving an imprint of it.

There are lots of other kinds of fossils, though. The dinosaur bones you see arranged and built into skeletons are permineralized fossils. Compression fossils turn plants like ferns into a thin film on a rock. The next time you visit a natural history museum, see how many different kinds of fossils you can find!

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plastic dinosaurs

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Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils

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Add some pizazz to your greeting cards with clay confetti! In just a few simple steps, you can take your cards to the next level.

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Need clay confetti? Order some from<a href="https://www.kiwico.com/us/store/cp/supplies" target="_blank"> the KiwiCo store</a>&nbsp;today!

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Cut out an 8”x4” rectangle of card stock. Fold in half, then unfold flat.

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Draw your design on the right half of the card.

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Cut out the windows in the front of your card with a craft knife. Save any “islands,” like the middle of an O or Q.

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Cut out a transparency that is large enough to cover your window, but small enough to tape onto half of the card. Repeat so you have 2 matching transparencies.

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Tape one transparency onto the back of the front of the card.

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Put the confetti over the transparency, add a second sheet of transparency on top, and tape to seal.

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(Optional) Put a solid piece of paper on the inside of the card to hide the tape.

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Personalize your keys or jazz up your backpack with these delightfully fluffy pom pom keychains!

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Wrap your yarn around your Pom Pom Winder. Keep wrapping until your Pom-Pom Winder is fully covered.

The more wraps of yarn, the fuller your pom pom will be! When you’re satisfied with the thickness, cut the yarn.

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Cut a piece of yarn about 5 inches (~13 cm) long. Place it under your winded yarn, and use the two ends to tie a knot around the middle of your winded yarn.

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Remove the yarn from the Pom Pom Winder.

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Use your scissors to cut your loops of yarn a few at a time until all the loops are cut.

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Use the Pom Pom Stencil to cut the ends of the yarn into a more perfect circle.

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Fluff your pom pom & trim any dangling ends you find.

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Cut another piece of yarn about 7 inches (~18 cm) and wrap it around the middle of your pom pom. Loop it through the keychain and tie a knot.

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Personalize your pom pom by winding different yarns or gluing on felt decorations!

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Adorn your special photos with this easy DIY picture frame. It’s as fun to make as it is to gift to your loved ones!

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Cut out the center of your plastic canvas shape.

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Trim the nubs off the inside border.

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Start stitching! Reference our <a href="https://www.kiwico.com/diy/art-creativity/quick-easy-crafts/plastic-canvas-stitches" target="_blank">Plastic Canvas Stitches Guide</a> to plan your design. We used back stitches and long stitches for this frame!

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(Optional) Add a piece of yarn to hang your frame from!

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Cut out a piece of cardboard the same shape as your frame. This will be used as the back of your picture frame.

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Stick the cardboard to the back of the frame using sticky foam. Only place sticky foam on the sides and the bottom so you can slot the picture in the top!

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Father's Day

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This simple craft helps toddlers work on fine motor skills while making a keepsake craft for Father's Day. 

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I printed "Daddy" onto a piece of white cardstock. You could also hand-write it. Any kind of paper works, but I love card stock for durability. Make the printing or writing very large so that if your child places pom poms over the letters you can still read the word.

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