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July 4th Shaker
Shake things up with your very own Fourth of July Shaker.

What you need: paper towel tube or Pringles© can, two 1 1/2 inch-wide cardboard circles, small rocks or pebbles, ribbon (red, white or blue), crayons, markers, tape, scissors

What to do:

• Fill the paper towel tube with your rocks. (If you are using a Pringles can just put the lid on and cover the tube with a clean piece of paper and you are ready to go.)
  
• Then seal the tube by taping the cardboard circles to the ends.
  
• Decorate the tube with markers or crayons (remember it is the 4th of July so make it patriotic).
• Attach ribbons to each side of the tube with tape.

"Sparky's Sparkling Sparkler"

What you need: pipe cleaners (red, white, and blue, of course), glue, glitter, and scissors

What to do:

• Cut two of the pipe cleaners into four pieces.
  
• Roll the eight pipe cleaner pieces in glue and cover them with glitter. When the glue is dry, glue the glitter-covered pieces onto the third, whole pipe cleaner.
  
• Let the sparkling sparkler dry.
  
• Make a bang at all your Fourth of July activities with your great, and safe, Sparky Sparkling Sparkler.