Rural Missouri - January 2013 - (Page 38)

Craft Time With Buddy Bear H ey friends! If you ﬁnd yourself looking for a fun project on a cold day this winter, you might try making your own T-shirt transfer. Although it’s an easy project, be sure to have an adult supervise you when using a hot iron to transfer the pattern onto the shirt. Let’s get started! 1) For this project, you will need one sheet of general purpose sandpaper, crayons and a T-shirt (a light color is best). The coarser the sandpaper, the rougher your pattern will look when transferred. 2) Choose a simple design and color it on the sandpaper. The image will be reversed when you iron it. 3) When you’re ready to transfer the design onto the T-shirt, make sure the shirt is wrinkle free or the wrinkles might show up in your design. Now, place a piece of cardboard inside the T-shirt and lay it on top of the ironing board. Next, place the sandpaper, design side down, onto the center of the T-shirt and place a clean paper towel on top of the back of the sandpaper. 4) Now, turn the iron on high and let it warm up for several minutes so it’s really hot. Set the iron on one section of the paper towel covered sandpaper and leave it for at least 30 seconds; continue to do this until you have been over all of the design. Before lifting the sandpaper, peek under one corner to see if your design has transferred. If it has, remove the sandpaper. Your image will have lots of great texture! To set the image, place a few pieces of paper towel over it and iron, then put the T-shirt in a warm clothes dryer for about 15 minutes. Wash seperately for the ﬁrst wash. 5) Eleven-year-old Caleb Stangl models the completed project — a cool-looking dinosaur T-shirt! ry your hand at my monthly word watch. It’s easy. I’ll list three words for you to ﬁnd. Read the stories in Rural Missouri and look for the words. When you ﬁnd them, send me a note telling me the stories where you found the words, what each word means as it’s used in the story and your age. If you get all the words right, your name goes into a drawing to win one of our Buddy Bear drawstring backpacks! We’ll pick up to ﬁve winners each month. Send your answers to: T Buddy Bear’s Word Watch P. O. Box 1645 Jefferson City, MO 65102 Entries must be received by Jan. 10. Kids, please wait a month before re-entering — and parents, this is only for kids up to age 15. Entries must be handwritten by the youth, please. 1 2 Can you ﬁnd this month’s words? razed, ragamufﬁn and stringent Congratulations to last month’s Word Watch winners: Ali Temples, Ben Buchanan, Katie Burgess, Laryn Risinger and Willow Corey 3 4 5 What does Frosty like to put on his burgers? Chilly sauce! 38 WWW.RURALMISSOURI.COOP http://WWW.RURALMISSOURI.COOP

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Rural Missouri - January 2013

Rural Missouri - January 2013
Table of Contents
Comments
Columns
Turning disabilities into abilities
Aiming to win
Outdoors
Enshrined
Out of the Way Eats
Missouri snapshots
Hearth and Home
Marmaduke’s first raid
Around Missouri
Marketplace
No strangers to hard work
Neighbors
Just4Kids

Rural Missouri - January 2013