The right-wing groups in Godhra may have managed to ban Muslims from entering garbas venues. But the community will still have an integral presence, not only in the town, but across the state in Navratri festival. Not many know that Godhra is the largest manufacturer of dandias in the country and t ...

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A lesson in using incense as Elkhart fire investigators say it’s the cause of a fire at a home in the 1400 block of Prairie Avenue yesterday. They say a child was burning incense in a second floor bedroom when it came in contact with some clothes and started the fire. It did about $3,000 in d ...

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It’s kinda loopy what a box of craft sticks and some wood glue can make. Those supplies “call” to me all the time, mostly because the Munchkin has a seriously huge supply of small plastic animals that need housing. I’ve made quite a few different buildings for Munchkin ...

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A weighing scale is the best way to measure perfectly equal batter in two cake pans. But if you want an easier way to be approximately equal, use a toothpick, says dessert chef Alice Medrich. Picture: Southern Foodways Alliance/Flickr First, you pour batter into both pans and eyeball ...

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Just don’t ask us what that means exactly. Being the kind of host that serves hors-d’oeuvres in a bowl on which is perched the above toothpick holder would tell us all kinds of things, but since we’re I’m socially inept, I’m not sure what those things are. It could say you’ve got a quirky sens ...

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Popsicle stick kazoo project is easy and fun.  Kids enjoy making then and them making music with them afterwards!   What you need: – 2 popsicle sticks – washi tape – 1/2 in wide strip of paper – 1 wide rubber band – ...

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LAKEVIEW, OR, USA — Teenagers, librarians and the Kinetic King have set a world record at the Lakeview Library; together they set up about 15,000 tongue depressors into one big stick bomb throughout the entire library, setting the new world record for the Largest Stick Bomb, according to the ...

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Last week I gave our master bathroom a little update.  The cost? $0. Yep,  zero dollars.  Just to reiterate… there’s not much that will make our master bathroom look nice other than a full gut.  The floor tiles are ugly, the shower tiles are uglier, the lighting sucks, the toil ...

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The provocation: A bowl of gumdrops and a handful of toothpicks. The first question: “Can I eat these?” Oh yeah, I guess they do kind of look like a snack. The second provocation (after we each ate a gumdrop, just to get that elephant out of the room): A square base of fo ...

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Making marshmallow and toothpick sculptures is an activity that I’ve been wanting to try with Maia for a while now. I think I first came across the idea of building toothpick sculptures in one of MaryAnn Kohl’s books—maybe Scribble Art. I just kept it in the back of my mind as part ...

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This was the kids’ after school snack yesterday. A grape and toothpick sculpture to make, briefly admire, and then eat. It was the perfect combination of delicious and engaging. Oh, and healthy. We started with a bowl full of grapes and a box of toothpicks. These grap ...

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Lavender Scented Play Dough and Wooden Tool Set is a great activity for kids to explore creatively and imaginatively as they create freely using simple props in an open-ended and unstructured way. Recently we shared a Lavender Scented Play Dough Recipe which was beautifully scented and tex ...

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