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Show Last Minute Plans For Christmas Day Here are a few last-minute suggestions sug-gestions offered by Mrs. Effie S. Barrows, Bar-rows, home economist, home management, manage-ment, of the Utah extension service, to amuse the children in their preparation prepar-ation for Christmas: "Let the children color pine cones and bronze them, if they please; or touch edges with uncooked flour paste and sprinkle with artificial snow dust. Walnut shell halves, glued together with a colorful yarn or with a ribbon caught between to serve as a hanger, may also be painted, bronzed and snow-dusted. "Teach children to form small balls from cotton and to tie bright paper or colorful envelope linings over them. From scraps of silver and gold paper, give a cutting lesson to fashion such decorations as stars, camels, shepherds shep-herds and wreathes. Making garlands of popcorn, set off by the brilliant red of an occasional cranberry, will always be a fascinating holiday activity. ac-tivity. A little one, eight or ten years of age, will love to blanket-stitch around small, brightly-colored tarleton stockings which he fills with popcorn to grace the tree, or to swing from fir branches along the mantle. "Decorations to eat have brought heaps of Christmas cheer. Nothing is more fun for the table centerpiece than 'a sugar plum tree.' Plant a small branch of pine in a mixing bowl; conceal the base with cotton dashed with artificial snow; decorate the tree with dates, nuts, raisins, or candies, wrapped in colorful colophane or tinted tin foil. Colored gum drops and frosted animal crackers are also attractive decorations. During the last course everyone may help himself to the trimmings. "For a snow scene centerpiece, fashion snow men from marshmal- . lows. Cut head, body and limbs and j stick these together with toothpicks; then mark cap, features and buttons with melted chocolate. Arrange these on a snow mound and place a few animal ani-mal crackers, frosted in colors, about in woods made from tiny evergreen sprigs: use an occasional cinnamon drop for berries. j "A candle cocktail will call forth ; many 'ohs' and 'ahs.' Top each serving serv-ing with a marshmallow holding aj tiny candy stick with the candle lighted light-ed and the flame cut from a red gum-drop; gum-drop; or, place on each marshmallowj a tiny poinsettia arranged from pieces of a red maraschino cherry with stem ainl leaf from green citron peel." |