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Hey, rainy days happen. And when they do, Do It Now! Crafts comes to the rescue of parents everywhere, providing more than 70 awesome crafting projects (like making a pop-up 3D card) and delicious, clever recipes (like cooking up taffy from scratch). Best of all, the activities are shown in vivid, colorful, and cheeky step-by-step art with short instructions that make completing them a snap—and a blast! Culled from the creative minds of two zany moms who still remember what it's like to be a kid, Do It Now! Crafts is the perfect answer to summertime boredom. Previously appeared in the Moonbeam Award–winning Show Off.

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ISBN 1-61628-390-4

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DO IT NOW!

COOL ART PROJECTS & TASTY SNACKS

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DO IT NOW!

69 awesome art activities and yummy recipes that you can make today!

12 pour a sand candle

7 marbleize pretty paper

1 take aim with a catapult

57 roll pasta dough

48 bake stained-glass cookies

US $6.99 CAN $7.99ISBN 13: 978-1-61628-390-2 ISBN 10: 1-61628-390-4

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take aim with a catapult

fire a pen crossbow

design a kite

fly a kite

fold a paper airplane

whip out a ninja star

marbleize pretty paper

cut festive papel picado

paste up a piñata

light paper-bag luminarias

fill a sea globe

pour a sand candle

weave a friendship bracelet

hook a gum-wrapper chain

link a daisy chain

tie-dye a stripy shirt

tie-dye a swirly shirt

cover an mp3 player

roll up a duct-tape rose

bead charms

mold clay monsters

contentshow to use this book

create

create silhouette portraits

draw a cat

sketch a dog

draft a horse

draw awesome manga

flip out with a flip book

pop out a 3-d card

sport a comic-book tote

beautify sneakers

punk up high-tops

trick out slip-ons

fashion a no-sew skirt

paint one-of-a-kind nails

make a crazy ponytail

ink a fake tattoo

annoy with a balloon horn

toot a straw horn

wire cereal-box speakers

screen-print a t-shirt

make a compact disc-o ball

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tell me more

index

about the authors

credits

roll candy sushi

pull tasty taffy

kick up some ice cream

make fruity soda pop

build a jiggly city

make a dessert aquarium

bake stained-glass cookies

adorn a gingerbread house

make icing “glue”

separate an egg

make fortune-cookie dough

fold fortune cookies

freeze smoothie pops

blend a smoothie

make chewy fruit leather

roll pasta dough

fold tortellini

enjoy purple pasta

dye rainbow celery

twist up soft pretzels

chill refrigerator pickles

sculpt snack art

roast veggies in the wild

cook

grill cheese on a stick

bake a cake in an orange

cook campfire candy apples

concoct chocolate anthills

make edible fake barf

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tell me more

15 min

symbols

tool kit

Here are some basic items that you probably have at home, so they aren’t listed in the toolbars. Pack a tool kit, and keep it handy!

scissors pen, pencil, and marker

plain paper

utensils water

glue

The activities in this book are designed for children ages ten and older. While we have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book is accurate, reliable, and totally cool, please assess your own child’s suitability for a particular activity before allowing him or her to attempt it, and provide adult supervision as appropriate. We disclaim all liability for any unintended, unforeseen, or improper application of the suggestions featured in this book. We will, however, be happy to accept the credit for increased awesomeness.

a word to parents

tape containers

Flip to the back of the book for extra info about this activity, including trivia, special techniques, history, or the science that makes it all happen.

This project helps you recycle old junk you probably have at your house. Go green!

Wear old clothes, put down newspapers, and warn the parents. This one will be messy!

The timer shows the number of hours, minutes, or seconds you should spend doing a step.

The thermometer indicates the temperature to which you should heat or cool an ingredient.

This symbol tells the number of times you should repeat a particular action.

The calendar’s x’s shows the number of days, weeks, or months that a step requires.

Follow the little asterisk in a step to the larger one on the page for information about alternative methods or materials, or for tips.

uses recyclables

messy

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2fire a pen crossbow

Take apart a pen that has run out of ink.

Drill a small hole in the middle of the tube.

Push the hollow tip through the hole.

Cut two notches in each end.

Secure the pen perpendicular to a pencil.

Place a rubber band in the notches.

Tape the clothespin on so it can still open.

Load the ink tube through the hollow tip.

Clip the rubber band into the clothespin. Take aim and fire,

but never at people or animals!

dead pen rotary tool

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distilled water

distilled water

Clean a small jar and remove the label.

Soak beach shells and sand to clean.

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Press onto polish. Let dry.

Let dry.

Add to wet polish.

Let dry.

paint one-of-a-kind nails

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Roll out prepared cookie dough.

Use a flour-coated cookie cutter to cut out cookies.

Set on parchment paper and cut holes.

Fill a bag with hard candy. Crush with a rolling pin.

Cut the tip off the plastic bag.

Sprinkle the crushed candies into the holes.

Bake until light brown. Let the sun shine through!

bake stained-glass cookies

350˚F (175˚C)

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tell me more

sugar-cookie dough

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Cut the veggies into equal-size pieces.

Toss with olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Put the veggies on a square of tinfoil.

Fold into a packet.

Add to coals. Flip after five minutes.

Unwrap and enjoy!

Scrape the bark off part of a forked stick.

Butter one side of each bread slice.

Put cheese between the unbuttered sides.

Hold over the fire.

When it browns, move away and flip.

Grill the other side.

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WELDON OWEN INC.

CEO, President Terry Newell

VP, Sales and New Business Development Amy Kaneko

VP, Publisher Roger Shaw

Creative Director Kelly Booth

Executive Editor Mariah Bear

Senior Editor Lucie Parker

Project Editor Frances Reade

Assistant Editors Emelie Griffin, Katharine Moore

Senior Designers Stephanie Tang, Meghan Hildebrand

Designer Delbarr Moradi

Illustration Coordinators Sheila Masson, Conor Buckley

Production Director Chris Hemesath

Production Manager Michelle Duggan

Illustration credits

Front cover

Raymond Larrett: kite Liberum Donum (Juan Calle,

Santiago Calle, Andres Penagos): taffy Bryon Thompson:

fortune cookie Gabhor Utomo: tie-dyed shirt

Back cover

Britt Hanson: sea globe, snack sculpture Gary Henricks:

sand candle Vic Kulihin: catapult, straw horn Raymond

Larrett: kite, stained-glass cookies Liberum Donum (Juan

Calle, Santiago Calle, Andres Penagos): comic-book tote

Christine Meighan: cake in an orange, paper airplane

Vincent Perea: fake tattoo Otis Thomson: flip book

Special thanks to:

Storyboarders

Esy Casey, Julumarie Joy Cornista, Sarah Lynn Duncan,

Chris Hall, Paula Rogers, Jamie Spinello, Brandi Valenza

Illustration specialists

Hayden Foell, Raymond Larrett, Ross Sublett

Editorial and research support team

Ian Cannon, Marc Caswell, Mollie Church, Elizabeth

Dougherty, Kat Engh, Alex Eros, Justin Goers, Sarah

Gurman, Susan Jonaitis, Peter Masiak, Grace Newell,

Jennifer Newens, Paul Ozzello, Ben Rosenberg, Hiya

Swanhuyser

Kid-reviewer panel

Emma Arlen, Leah Cohen, Sally Elton, Whitman Hall,

Tesserae Honor, Nami Kaneko, Emily Newell,

Eloise Shaw, Georgia Shaw

A Show Me Now Book.Show Me Now is a trademark of Weldon Owen Inc.

Gabhor Utomo: marbleized paper, piñata, tie-dyed shirt,

screen-print Tina Cash Walsh: pasta dough

Interiors

Key: bg = background; bd = border; fr = frames;

ex = extra art

Henry Boyle: 37 Hayden Foell: 45 ex Britt Hanson: 11, 15,

22, 34, 42 bg, 60, 63 Gary Henricks: 12 Joshua Kemble:

59 fr Vic Kulihin: 1–2, 38 Raymond Larrett: 3–4, 8, 10,

48 Liberum Donum (Juan Calle, Santiago Calle, Andres

Penagos): 23–26, 29, 35, 43, 46–47, 68 Christine Meighan:

5–6, 14, 44–45, 49–50, 64, 66–67 Hank Osuna: 42 fr, 61–62

Vincent Perea: 36 Ross Sublett: 33 bg, 35 bg Bryon

Thompson: 20–21, 28, 51–56 Otis Thomson: 27 Taylor

Tucek: 39 Gabhor Utomo: 7, 9, 13, 16–17, 30–32 bg, 40, 41

bg, 59 bg, 69 Tina Cash Walsh: 18–19, 30–32 fr, 33 fr, 41

fr, 57–58, 65

415 Jackson Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: 415 291 0100 Fax: 415 291 8841

www.weldonowen.com

A division of

Do It Now! Crafts: Cool Art Projects & Tasty Snacks

Copyright © 2012 by Weldon Owen Inc.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be

reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information

retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic,

electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying,

taping, and recording, without prior written permission

from the publisher.

Excerpted from Show Off, first published by

Candlewick Press in 2009.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012932623

ISBN 13: 978-1-61628-390-2

ISBN 10: 1-61628-390-4

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