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Book excerpt:
"Crafts From Your Favorite Fairy Tales"
The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling tells the story of an awkward baby bird that grows into a beautiful swan.

Swan Puppet

Here is what you need:

• Two 9-inch paper plates
• White adult- sock
• Black adult-size sock
• White and orange construction paper
• Scissors
• Black marker
• White craft feathers
• Stapler and staples
• White glue

Here is what you do:

1. Fold two paper plates in half.  Staple the edges of the two sides of the folded plates together.  This will be the body of the swan.
2. Trace your hands on white paper.  Cut the hand shapes out for wings. Glue a wing on each side of the plates.  Glue some feathers on the wings.
3. Cut eyes from the white paper.  Draw a pupil in the center of each eye. Glue the eyes onto either side of the toe of the white sock.
4. Staple the two sides of the open end of the white sock to the inside of the swan body.
5. To make the duckling, fold a piece of orange paper in half.   Cut a long beak with the back of the beak on the fold.  Staple the beak to the toe end of the black sock and add some white paper eyes.
6. Cut a 2 ½ inch slit in the end of the white sock.
7. Turn the ugly duckling into a swan.  Put the black sock on your hand. Slide the white swan body all the way over the black sock, so that the beak sticks out of the cut end of the white sock, giving the bird the black mask of an adult swan.

Garden Glove Doll
This is a great dollmaking craft from one of our craftzone members, Joan Mayo from Casa Grande, Arizona who gave us this great fabric craft idea on how to recycle those used gloves to make a treasured keepsake. She says, "I have been living in Casa Grande Arizona for 6 yrs. I am disabled and love to do crafts. My grandaughter Desirae is doing crafts and always wants me to send her something, so a friend found the garden glove doll and told me about it. When I went to visit the grandkids we made them. We made clowns, Firemen, train conductors, flower people and many more. Hope everyone enjoys the dolls."

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