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Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor

ou've eaten the Iatkes, lit the
menorah, spun the dreidel.
Now what's to do?
Yes, you could always sit down for
a stimulating evening of "The
Shopping Channel" (only 1 million
bottles of that fabulous cleaning solu-
tion left!), or you could do some
great family holiday projects. The
choice, my friends, is up to you.

Fun Projects
For Little Hands

#1) Lots of Latkes (inedible, but a
taste treat for the eyes)

You will need:
brown construction paper

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scissors
cotton balls
glue

For the "frying pan" (optional):
rubber band
tape
cardboard

Begin by cutting brown construction
into thin strips of various sizes. It's
best to have several colors of brown,
yellow and white (for the onions).
You'll also need one, large circular
piece of construction paper, prefer-
ably brown, onto which all the tiny
pieces can be glued. This is your
latke. Glue cotton balls beside latke,
to serve as sour cream.
Now if you want to really get things
cooking, cut out a frying-pan shape
from cardboard. Use tape to affix
one end of a thick rubber band to the

frying pan, another to the bottom of
the latke. You can then bounce it up
and down and it will look like the
latkes are flipping in the pan.
By the way, any child who feels
tempted to shoot the rubber band at
a sibling should be warned that if he
does so he'll be responsible for the
entire post-latke clean-up — the real
one, with all that grease.

#2) We Have To Hand It To
You...

You will need:
two adorable hands
scissors
crayons

stick-fingers plus one for the thumb-
shammas (which will need to be
lengthened, as it's supposed to be
the tallest). Parents can cut out and
children can decorate, or if Mom
and Dad are still too young for sharp
scissors, call a neighbor.

#3) You Sweet Potato, You

You will need:
sweet potato with buds
toothpicks
a jar

Place a sweet potato, small end •
down, in a glass jar filled with water.
Use toothpicks to hold potato up in
jar, making certain bottom of potato
is always in water. Keep in a sunny
Have a child place his hands
place and watch roots grow down
together, with thumbs connected at
and leaves grow up. Soon, your
center. A parent should trace the
hands, which will leave eight candle- . sweet potato will become a full-