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Hands Around the
World
You can make a craft that reminds you how Presbyterian
missions become hands of friendship all around the world.
You
will need:
an old file folder or a folded piece of heavy
paper
crayons
watercolor paints
string or yarn
scissors
glue
pencil
Lay one of your hands flat on the file folder. Put your wrist
where the fold is. Draw around your hand, but don’t make a
line where the paper is folded. Now cut out the hand shape,
being careful not to cut off the fold. When you open it up,
you will have 2 hand cutouts, joined at the wrist. Decorate
the hands any way you like. You can decorate both sides of the
paper. When you are finished, curve the paper to make the
fingers overlap. Glue the fingers together so that they look
like hands holding one another.
On another folded piece of paper, draw a circle that is small
enough to fit inside the curve of the hands you have made. Cut
out both the circles. On the circles, use brown or green
crayon to draw the shapes of the continents. Color them in
completely with crayon. Then paint the water of the oceans
with watercolor paint. When the paint is dry, lay the 2
circles together, painted sides facing out.
Cut a piece of yarn or string that is long enough to reach
between the 2 hands, with some to spare (about 18 inches would
be plenty). Lay the yarn between the 2 circles and glue them
together with the yarn running through them. Let the glue dry
completely. Now, carefully poke a small hole through each of
the hands. Thread the ends of the yarn or string through the
holes in the hands, tie the ends, and you will see
Hands
Around the World.
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