3: Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream (27 page)

One at a time, lay your slices of fruit on the board and cut into flower, butterfly and heart shapes using the cookie cutters.

Carefully insert the skewers into the fruit to create a beautiful flower display.

Making a flower:

* Cut a slice of pineapple into a flower shape and add to the skewer so it’s horizontal. Then add a small strawberry to the very top to make the centre of the flower. Add a couple of grapes to the ‘stem’ of the flower to look like leaves. Try other methods and designs too!

Top Tip!

For an extra-refreshing taste, serve with a yoghurt or cream-cheese dip!

Assemble your Flower Garden:

* Decorate your shoe box to make it look like a garden, using green paint, tissue paper, flower stickers, etc.

* Cut small holes into the top of the shoe box.

* Insert your flower skewers into the holes to create a flower border!

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How to make your very own friendship bracelets

Friendship bracelets are great fun to make, and even better to make with and for your best friend! There are lots of colours and patters you can use to create a unique and special bracelet for y our friend.

Method 1:
The easiest way to make a friendship bracelet is by plaiting.

1. Choose 3 colours of thread that you like.

2. Take 2 strands of each colour.

3. Tie a knot in the end of the 6 strands and separate the different colours from each other.

4. Get your friend to hold the knotted end of the bracelet and start plaiting the 3 colours together.

5. Once the bracelet is long enough to go around your wrist, tie a knot in the other end.

6. Snip off any straggly ends and you’re done!

Method 2:
This is more difficult but you’ll end up with a cool pattern.

1. Take 6 strands of thread – choose any colours you like.

2. Each strand represents a letter in the word
FRIEND.

3. Tie a knot in the end of the 6 strands.

4. Arrange them in the order you like and ask your friend to hold the end.

5. Take the first string on the left
F
and wrap it over and around the next string
R
to make a knot. Pull up on
F
to tighten.

6. Make a second knot the same way with string
F
over and around string
R
. Pull up on
F
to tighten.

7. Drop string
R
and pick up string
I
. Make two knots with string
F
and around string I.

8. Repeat on strings
E
,
N
and the last string
D
making two knots on each with string
F
, now on the right. This makes a complete row.

9. Continue the next row by taking the first string on the left, now string
R
, and making two knots over and around the other strings.

10. With each row the string on the left is worked over the string on the right.

11. Once the bracelet is long enough, to go around your wrist, tie a knot in the other end.

12. Snip off any straggly ends and you’re done.

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Random Acts of

Kindness

Copy cool sam Taylor from
Ginger Snaps
and try a random act of kindness every day. Here are a few to start you off . . .

Wash up
without being asked

Hug
a friend!