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From: Pudge99
Date: 10-18-2006, 12:42 PM (1 of 8)
Anybody know where I can go and buy them? I checked Hobby Lobby and they only have them pre-decorated for scrapbookers. I have found several online stores but I need them today or tomorrow and don't really want to pay for overnight shipping on bottle caps. If I can't find them dd and I have to come up with another idea for her swap. We have less than 10 days to get 50-60 swaps made  . Add that to the 60 swap bags that I volunteered to sew and the 60 bookmark blanks and yarn tassels we have to prepare so she can teach it to the other girls and WOW! I so do not have time. Oh yeah and this is for the daughter that I am not the leader of her troop. I am also trying to find a place for dd #2's Daisey troop to meet.
Gina
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From: esrun3
Date: 10-18-2006, 02:23 PM (2 of 8)
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Hi Gina, can't help with the bottle caps but I know when I was a kid in scouts we used to swap pins or badges-if you are doing with another troop in town and you are looking for a crafty idea, how about miniature microwave popcorns decorated or ghost soup? Ghost soup is simply hot chocolate or cider, cinnamon stick, marshmallows all in a styrofoam cup-you can decorate or not as you choose. Add a little note to say something about Halloween and ghosts leaving soup to ward off the chill or something like that. A real quick and easy craft is to take a legal size envelope, seal it, stamp or decorate the envelope, both sides. Carefully tear it about 1/3 of the way down, if you stamped the envelope, you can crimp the bottom part, insert your popcorn and slip the top part over it. Here's a pic: http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i233/esrun3/Crafts/100_0076.jpg Hope that helps. Lyn
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From: Pudge99
Date: 10-18-2006, 03:23 PM (3 of 8)
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I am not sure exactly what we are supposed to be doing (our first swap). Swaps, I have read, were traditionally pins of some sort. "Special Whatchamacallits Affectionately Pinned Somewhere." So I was thinking we could hot glue a pin to the back of the bottle cap and decorate the "bowl" part. These are for a camping trip. One for every girl (50-60). They are supposed to be inexpensive. The popcorn although a great idea wouldn't be practical. I thought our troop was doing this together but turns out each girl has to have 50-60. So my dd is going to be coming home from this camp out with 50 or so whatchamacallits. UUGH!!! If they do this for every camping event she will need a whole room just to store her SWAPS. Gina
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From: lsoutherla
Date: 10-18-2006, 04:59 PM (4 of 8)
| Gina, I was a GS leader for 9 years. (from Daisy to Cadet) We made a lot of swaps. If you need to find the bottle caps, try calling a local bottler or check at your local school and see if they will open up the coke machine for you. I had my girls collect them and bring them in. One or two ideas for the pop tops with a camping theme is to take a portion of a match stick and glue it on to the pop top, paint it gray with acrylic paint and you have a frying pan. then pain bacon or eggs or even glue small pieces of construction paper into the pan to make food, or how bout, again, cutting up patch sticks or thin balsa wood (at Michaels), gluing the wood into the pop top in the shape of fire wood. Kids love to paint. Oh, another idea, take two pop tops and put a few tiny beads in one and glue (glue gun here) the two together to form a bangle. Paint any color. I know we made a smores swap. I'll have to check my hat and see whats on there. And from experience, watch the hot glue gun, I gave up on those without close adult supervision. Elmers will work great and have a hair dryer around to help dry them fast. I'll see if I can come up with the swap book/file I had. Sometimes I just laid a lot of small items on the table and let them go at it with their imagination. We put all of our swaps on baseball caps. That way we could wear them and then put them away easily. (And when your out with them if they are all wearing the same shirt or hat it's easy to locate them.) My hat still hangs in the kitchen. There's a million ideas if you google GS swaps. Trouble with swaps, the girls never wanted to swap them! |
User: lsoutherla
Member since: 05-04-2006 Total posts: 72 |
From: Pudge99
Date: 10-19-2006, 11:05 AM (5 of 8)
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I am not too worried about the glue gun my daughter is 14. Schools here are not allowed to have soda machines and if they did I doubt they would be glass bottles. YIKES! I have a lot of cool ideas for the bottle caps but no place to get them. Gonna check Michaels later today. Gina
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From: Miss Spring
Date: 10-31-2006, 09:47 PM (6 of 8)
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Heres a link where you can order bottle caps http://www.wilde-ideas.com/Vndrs/Cdc/bottle-caps.html Good luck Spring |
User: Miss Spring
Member since: 05-03-2006 Total posts: 87 |
From: judymo
Date: 11-02-2006, 04:07 PM (7 of 8)
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Gina, When I was doing a program for our church children, I wrote a letter to Pepsi-Cola in our state and we were sent bottle caps. so you might try that. Judymo |
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From: Pudge99
Date: 11-03-2006, 09:48 AM (8 of 8)
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Thanks for the ideas. I was in the dollar store and had one of those moments. I was just looking and all of the sudden my mind was like you could take this and add it to that and boom you will be all set. So I bought some of those squashed marbles, some Sharpies, and a couple packages of glittery hot glue. then I drove over to Walmart and got some pinbacks. I wrote her troop number backwards on the flat side of the squashed marble with the Sharpies, Then gave it a squirt of glittery hot glue and stuck the pinback to it. They turned out beautiful. If I can get a good picture I will post it later. Gina
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