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Get Cooking
I Edmund in The Lion, the Witch and
Whenever Harriet the Spy returned
the Wardrobe):
from one of her adventures in
1 cup fresh orange juice
search of the perfect moment about
.1 cup water
which to write, she liked to have an
I Juice of one lemon, plus 1 T. grated
egg cream. The drink was a staple
zest
in drugstores of the 1930s and
1 T. grated orange zest
12 cups sugar
1940s. Here's all you'll need:
I 6 packages unflavored gelatin
I • Confectioners' sugar
cream soda
1/2 cup chopped hazelnuts or
4 Tbsp. chocolate syrup
.•
pistachios (optional)
1/3 cup milk

Make Your Own Perfume
These will smell just as delicious
as anything you buy in the
department store, and you'll
have a lot of fun making them.
The key ingredients:

1/4 cup vodka
1/8 tsp. glycerine or castor oil
glass container

Mix vodka and glycerine with
dried flowers (about 1 Tbsp.) —
lavender, rose and gardenia all
work well, or try your favorite.
Add to this about 1 tsp. orange
or lemon peel. You can leave it
at this, or try adding a little
vanilla or almond extract (yes,
the kind you buy at the grocery
store. Note, however, that you
cannot use imitation flavoring)
or essential oil. Place all ingre-
dients in glass container, cover
and let sit in a dark spot for at
least a week. Strain, then dab
on.

You're The Author
Buy a blank journal, or staple
pieces of paper together and
make a cover with construction
paper. Then get writing and
illustrating. It's always fun to
have children write, "The Story
of Our Family" or "A Day in the
Life of Our Family." Another
idea is to give children six ran-
dom words which they must
incorporate into their story.

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Beautiful You, Beautiful You
Many stores that develop film offer duplicate prints. Once you've
placed the best originals in your album, and sent all the decent copies
to relatives, the question becomes: what to do with all the leftovers?
* Make your own "Memory" game. You will need two of each picture
for this Turn over all photos so only backs are facing up. Each person
takes a turn uncovering two at a time Try, to match the pairs.
* Create a calendar. Cut out family faces (the smaller the better) and
place on the date marking each person's birthday This is a great gift
for that forgetful family member who can easily overlook "Mom's Birth-
day" on a calendar already filled with printed matter. You also may
want to mark special occasions like an anniversary, bar or bat mitzvah
or graduation.
* Make a funny photo album. Find pictures of your favorite celebrities,
sports heroes, politicians etc. with another person (this is important) in
magazines and newspapers. Even if you've never had a moment of
surgical training, take scissors in hand and cut out the head of the
unfortunate soul standing beside your idol, then replace it with your
own. You may find yourself with a very different body than the one
you're used to, but never mind. Once you've amassed a collection of
about 10 pictures starring you, place in an album and impress your
friends. We'll never tell that those photos are a bit, well, doctored up.

Combine water and juices in non-
Mix milk and syrup in glass. Pour
:
metallic
pan. Place atop burner at
cream soda in and let it fizz away.
medium heat. Stir in gelatin, one
Or, you could step into the magical
envelope
at a time. Cook about four
world of The Lion, the Witch and
minutes. Add sugar and zests. Boil,
The Wardrobe (and celebrate what
stirring
occasionally, for 20 minutes.
would have been the 100th birth-
Add nuts, if desired. Pour into 9x9
day of author C.S. Lewis, born in
pan and refrigerate until solid. Dust
November 1898) by making your
with confectioners' sugar before serv-
own Turkish Delight. (This was what
ing.
the Queen of Narnia gave to

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Backwards Land
Remember when you did this
when you were a child and it
was a great and silly day? Your
children will think so, too. Begin
the day by getting up and putting
on your pajamas. Then comes the
meal, something along the lines

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of macaroni and cheese (this is
not a great idea for a day you
were planning on serving ham-
burgers for dinner). Then maybe
after breakfast/dinner a bath, or
some stories? Go through the
whole day this way, doing as
many things backwards as you
can. End with dinner, perhaps a
bowl of cereal served in bed.

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Leaf Song
Isn't the nicest part of summer being outdoors? One way to celebrate
this is to find examples of nature in literature, art or music. Here's a
fun way to do this which can be geared to both older and younger
children. Ask older children to find a favorite poem, painting or piece
of music that mentions something found in the great outdoors. They'll
find plenty of works focusing on leaves and flowers,
but try to look for more unusual topics (remember
Christina Rossetti's famous,
"Who has seen the
wind?") Younger children
who cannot read and
write should be encour-
aged to make up their
own stories and paintings,
focusing on a favorite sum-
mer treasure.

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