In our first installment of SAS (that's Summer Activity Series, not Side-Angle-Side, although your geometry teacher likes where your head's at, Sparkler fabalafae), we asked for ideas for projects to keep your summer from becoming a long, air-conditioned haze punctuated only by consuming the occasional Bomb Pop and counting the wrinkles on your pool-pruned feet.
While you had many wonderful ideas (master sandwich making, giant slip n' slides, room cleaning games, cootie catchers), most of which we will explore later in the series, several of you seemed so enthused about the idea of making daisy chains, and Super Sparkler rishameme asked so nicely, that we shall start there.
For some reason, daisy chains remind us of The Princess Bride ("As you wiiiiiish!"), although we have yet to actually find one in the film. They also remind us of hippies and summer camp. There's just something about crafting jewelry from nature's bounty that screams "good, clean fun." Follow these simple steps, and you'll be botanically bedecked in no time:
Step 1: Find a field of wildflowers. If you don't live in the Alps, a very weedy yard or corner flower market will do.
Step 2: Pick a couple dozen wild daisies, clover, poppies, or buttercups, leaving the stems long.
Step 3: Use your fingernail (or a knife, if you're keratin-challenged) to make a slit about 1/2-inch long in the middle of the stem. Make it toward the root end of the stem, but don't split it all the way to the end. (See below.)
Step 4: Insert stem of second daisy through the slit in the first daisy. (See below.) Repeat Step 3 with the second daisy's stem, inserting the third daisy into the slit, and so on.
Step 5: When the chain is as long as you want it to be, make the slit in the last stem slightly bigger (about a full inch). Insert the flower of the first daisy through that slit.
Step 6: Sing "Kumbaya."
And there you have it. Stay tuned for next week's SASsy project!
By: Kathryn_Williams
Topics: Life
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