Cookie Tin Time Capsule
Difficulty: Average
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Parental supervision is recommended
Capture your memories in a recycled cookie tin and have hours of fun doing it. Spend New Year's Day together with this family craft.
What you'll need:
- Cookie tin (or similar type); washed and dried
- Rag
- Sandpaper
- Spray paint
- "Painters" paint markers in assorted colors
- Memorabilia
How to make it:
- Take lid off the tin.
- Lightly sand the cookie tin (lid and bottom) all over on the outside to rough up the paint.
- Wipe the cookie tin off with rag.
- Spread out newspapers and place cookie tin on it.
- Spray paint the cookie tin. Let dry.
- Use paint markers to add your message. Some sample messages might be:
- Time Capsule Don't open until New Years Eve 2010
- These are a few of my favorite things! (add music notes around the words)
- Family members names could go around the exterior of the tin.
- Let each member of your family place a few special items in the tin.
- Some ideas to place in the tin could be:
- Pokemon cards
- Report cards
- Funny snapshots
- Your favorite jokes
- A note to each family member telling them how much you appreciate them.
- Baseball or other sports cards
- Anything that is important to you NOW.
- Place the tin some place you will be able to find it in 10 years! You could make the time to open the tin in any year that you wish, maybe less maybe more. You decide.
