These vibrant sticks are banded with six colors, one for each letter in the word friend. At a recent camp for seven- to 13-year-old girls, the campers made these trinkets for one another and wore them around their necks as a token of their camp-forged bonds.
| Prep Time: About 1 hour | |
| What you need: | |
| Square wooden chopsticks
Wire snips or sturdy scissors Acrylic paint, 6 colors Cotton swabs Fine-point permanent marker Cord or string | |
| Seasons: Year round | |
| Materials: chopsticks, paints | |
| Instructions: | |
| 1. | To make one, cut a 3-inch-long section from a chopstick. Use cotton swabs to paint 6 different-color stripes around the stick. |
| 2. | Let the paint dry, then write a message on the stick with the marker. Tie a length of cord tightly around the top of the stick and give it to your friend. |
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