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DIY Try your hand at these DIY projects to TABLETOP DIRECTIONS: 5. Once set, remove the inner bowl
first, and then gently remove the
1. Be sure to put on work gloves
make your time in the sun even more fun
before starting this project. To
concrete from the outer bowl.
FIREPIT
this season and beyond!
Use sandpaper to smooth out
begin, spray the inside of the 18-
inch bowl with nonstick spray.
the edges.
MATERIALS: 2. Mix the concrete in a large bucket, 6. Place a layer of the lava rock into
• Work gloves and, using the trowel, pour the the bottom of the concrete bowl,
• Nonstick spray concrete into the 18-inch bowl and add the fuel canisters to
• 18-inch bowl until it is half-full. the center.
• Large bucket
3. Place the 14.5-inch bowl into the 7. Cut the metal screen to fit over the
• Concrete mix
center of the concrete, and weigh concrete, and place over top of the
• Masonry trowel
it down with the weights. Be sure canisters. Cover the grate with a
• 14.5-inch bowl
that both bowls are level, and thin layer of the large lava rocks.
• Heavy weights
that there is about 2–3 inches of
• Sandpaper 8. When ready to use, light the fuel
concrete in between the bowls.
• Lava rock granules canisters through the grate with a
• Gel fuel canisters 4. Tap the outside of the bowl gently longneck lighter.

• Grill grate/metal screen to remove any air bubbles, and
NOTE: To extinguish the firepit,
• Industrial scissors give the concrete at least 48 hours
follow the guidelines for the gel
• Large lava rocks to harden.
fuel canisters.
• Longneck lighter

DIRECTIONS: Ideas for what to store inside:
TIME 1. Cut the scrapbook paper to wrap • Seashells

CAPSULE around the body of the hand wipe • Travel photos
container. Decorate and label the
paper as you wish, and glue the • Souvenirs
paper around the container. Make
MATERIALS: • Hand-drawn artwork
sure to leave the lid uncovered.
• Scissors
• Goals for the upcoming school year
• Scrapbook paper 2. Have your kids fill it with their

• Large plastic container of hand favorite memories, and put the lid • Receipts for fun things you bought
wipes, emptied out and washed back on it. or places you visited

• Decorations
3. Store the time capsule in either a
• Markers or pens closet or a drawer, and open it at

• Glue the beginning of next summer.

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