Kid Hat Project

Here is a project for the kids I found on the Crayola site:

Community Helper Hats
crayola supplies:
Crayons
Metallic FX Crayons
No-Run School Glue
Blunt-Tip Scissors
household supplies : paper plates
1. What community helpers do you admire? Firefighters, police officers, utility and construction workers, and mail carriers? Most community helpers wear hats. Where you live, what colors do they wear? Are there badges on their hats? These directions are for a firefighter hat. You can change them to make whatever hat you choose.
2. Cut most of the way around the inner circle of a paper plate with Crayola® Scissors. Cut the hole in a size to fit on your head. Fold the circle up for the front of your hat.
3. Cut out the center of another paper plate. Cut part of this circle in the shape of a front insignia or badge. The rest of the cut pieces could extend the brim and back.
4. Use Crayola Metallic FX Crayons to decorate insignias, badges, buckles, or other shiny parts of your hat. Color the rest of the hat with Crayola Crayons and your markers.
5. Glue the pieces together with Crayola School Glue. Let your hat air-dry and you’re ready to work!

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This time of year most people have zucchini squash coming out their ear. Well, not us?!? Our plants looked great, got plenty of flowers on them, but no zucchini. Hmmmmmmmm.........well, looked up the problem on the world wide web :) and found out: some of the flowers are male flowers!! Wow, that a new one! Well, anyway, the male flowers will not produce fruit (well duh!!), but the female flowers came on. Ok, that's good right??? Well, by the time the female flowers came on, there were no male flowers!!! NOW I AM REALLY CONFUSED! Male, female, whatever!!! I still wanted zucchini, but no, only about 3 grew. Ok, now if anyone knows more about this male/female flower thing, maybe you can clue me in!

BUT...............with the 3 puny zucchini I did get, I made zucchini cake :)

Here is a great recipe for :o CHOCOLATE Zucchini Cake and it's great!!

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake
1 stick butter or margarine

1 3/4 c. sugar

1/2 c. oil

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 c. sour milk

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

2 1/2 c. flour

1/4 c. cocoa

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

2 c. zucchini, finely grated

1 c. or 1 (6 oz.) pkg. chocolate chips

1c. nuts, chopped
Cream butter and sugar. Add oil, eggs, vanilla and sour milk. Beat well. In another bowl combine cinnamon, cloves, flour, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda. Add to above mixture. Add zucchini. Mix well. Pour into greased 9 x 13 inch pan. Sprinkle chips and nuts on top. Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes at 325 degrees. Cool in pan on rack.
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