Crafts

1. Give everyone a paper plate and pick a planet to make. 2. Paint it. Swirl colors for Jupiter, red for Mars, blue for Earth. 3. While it dries, cut a ring from a second plate for Saturn. 4. Add a string and hang them in order across a doorway. 5. Say the order out loud each time you walk under them.

1. Mix 1 cup flour, half a cup of salt and half a cup of water into a dough. 2. Roll it into balls and flatten each one into a thick cookie. 3. Press a toy dinosaur's feet, a shell or a leaf into the dough to make a print. 4. Bake at 200 degrees for about 2 hours, until hard. A grown-up handles the oven. 5. Once cool, brush them with watered-down brown paint to look old.

1. Cut a paper plate in half. The curved edge is the top of the jellyfish. 2. Paint or color it. Pinks, purples and blues look lovely. 3. Glue or tape strips of ribbon and crepe paper along the flat edge for tentacles. 4. Punch a hole at the top and hang it where it can sway.

1. Cut a row of cups from an egg carton. Six cups makes a good long caterpillar. 2. Paint it any color you like and let it dry. 3. Poke two pipe cleaner antennae into the front cup. 4. Add googly eyes and a smile. 5. Count the body sections together. Real caterpillars have thirteen!