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OLD-FASHIONED TIN CAN LANTERNS
Get a large tin can, like the large canned tomato cans, and peel off the label. Now, have your child draw designs on the tin can that she or he will want to punch out later using a magic marker or crayons. After your child is finished, fill the tin can up with water and freeze for about 48 hours, until the ice is rock solid. This will keep the tin can from buckling and denting when you are hammering in the designs with the nails.
When the water is frozen, place the tin can on a hard surface, preferably on a towel, and on its side. Now use nails, tips can be of varying sizes to hammer in on the design that your child has drawn. After that is done, puncture out two holes on either side of the can at the top for stringing a handle.
Now you can remove any chunks of ice out of the can. (Please mom or dad, you do this since the can has sharp edges on the inside). Help your child screw in a hook on a 20" wooden dowel (sold in do-it-yourself home supply stores) then string thin wire through the hook and with the ends, through the two holes in the top of the can. Secure the wire with knots.
Take a votive candle and using a little of the melted wax from it, secure it to the bottom of the tin can lantern. Light the candle carefully, we recommend using the long handled lighters so as not to get burned, and see how beautiful the lantern is. Have you child make a couple of them and use them outside in the dusk and dark or even bring them to the beach to light for twilight!
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