Hawaii
Aloha State

Crafts and Activities relating to Hawaii

1. Throw a Luau Party - Make Hawaiian Leis, Hula skirts, and pretty flower decorations. Get Hawaiian music from the library and do the limbo. Use a broom handle for your limbo stick. Also look for Hawaiian cookbooks and prepare some Hawaiian style foods. (Oriental Trading Company has Hawaiian decorations and games for a great Luau.)

Leis - Print out the flower pattern (large file or small file) onto colorful paper. Staple about five more sheets of different colors of paper to the back of the pattern sheet. Cut out the flowers cutting through all the layers of papers. Punch a hole in the middle of the flowers with a hole punch. Cut up plastic straws into one inch pieces. Cut lengths of yarn long enough for the lei. Wrap a piece of tape around on end. String on two or three flowers and then a piece of straw. Keep going until you have fill up the whole yarn. Tie the ends together. Bend the ends of the flowers in opposite directions so that they stand out from each other.

2. Pine cone Pineapples - These make great decorations for the table at your luau.

What you will need: yellow acrylic paint, green paper, hot melt glue gun, and scissors.

What to do:

1. Paint the tips of the pine cone with yellow paint and let dry.

2. Cut a length of green paper 11" x 4". Cut 1/2" slit all the way down the length of the paper leaving about 1/2" on one side not cut. It should look like grass. Roll the paper up and tape it together. Glue the side that wasn't cut to the top of the pine cone You may have to snip off the top part of the pine cone to get the leaves to stay on. When the glue is dry bend down the leaves and snip the ends to a point. Snip the top leaves a little shorter than the bottom ones.

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Maps and Facts -

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Nene - State Bird

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State Flower

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State Song

 

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Geography