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Pinked Felt Square Flowers

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Can you ever really have too many fabric flowers? Perfect for pins, hair decoration or to top a gift, they are as handy as can be. These little pinked felt flowers are so easy that you can get your kids in on the action, but they are pretty enough to find uses all over the house!

Things you’ll need:
Felt squares
Round plate
Pinking shears
Pencil
Embroidery thread
Embroidery needle

Things to do:
1. Trace your plate onto the felt to create a guide for cutting.
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2. Using your pinking shears cut the circle out.
3. Cut the circle into a spiral with a width of 2 inches.
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4. Using your thread and needle and starting at the center, sew a running stitch 1/4 inch up from the inside edge of the spiral.
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5. Pulling gently, allow the fabric to gather, wrapping it around into a flower as you gather.
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6. Once you have formed your flower, use the tail of your thread to secure the layers together with a few stitches through all the layers.
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**You can embellish these flowers by adding a running stitch (ungathered) to the top edge of the spiral before stitching the gather stitch.**

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DIY Rainbow Rice

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Fantastic for art projects and perfect for sensory tables, rainbow rice is fun and easy to make and best of all, kid LOVE to play with it!

Things you’ll need:
Basmati or other medium to long grain rice
Liquid food coloring
Zip close bags
Rubbing alcohol (surgical spirit)
Paper towels
Strainer

Things to do:
1. Divide the rice up into baggies, here we used 3/4 cup rice per bag.
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2. Fill the bags about half full of rubbing alcohol, enough to almost cover the rice.
3. Add food coloring, varying how much you put in each bag to achieve different colors (hint, you can get a darker red by adding a very small amount of blue, 1 drop blue to 8 drops red! Light blue is achieved with a few drops of blue and one of green!)
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4. Zip close the bags, forcing out as much air as possible, and massage the colors around into the rice until you have an even color throughout the bag.
5. Allow the rice to sit for an hour then strain in a colander and dry on a paper towel lined cookie sheet or table.
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