Some of these crafts call for the use of a hammer, scissors, or other potentially dangerous tools. Before beginning any craft, get either help or the "go-ahead" from a responsible adult.

Paper Crown

• Newspapers
• Paper or thin cardboard
• Scissors
• Paint, crayons, or felt-tip pens
• White glue
• Stapler and staples (optional)
• Glitter or colored glass "jewels"

1. Cover your work surface with newspapers.
2. Cut a length of thin cardboard or construction paper, long enough to go around your head and overlap slightly.
3. Cut a jagged or scalloped design around the top edge and decorate the crown with paint, crayons, or felt-tip pens.
4. Staple or glue the overlapping paper together.
5. Glue on glitter, jewelry, or painted stones.

Foil Pie Plate Noisemaker

• Handful of dried beans or rice
• 2 aluminum foil pie plates
• stapler and staples
• several felt tip pens in different colors

1. Place a handful of dried beans or rice in an aluminum foil pie plate. Cover with another pie plate and staple together.
2. With felt-tip pens, draw Haman’s face. At the sound of Haman’s name, drum the noisemaker with your fingers or hit it with a spoon.

Saltbox Noisemaker

• Empty cardboard salt container
• Handful of dried beans or rice
• Cellophane tape
• Pen
• Wooden dowel
• Acrylic paint
• Paintbrush

1. Open the little metal flap in the salt box, fill with dried beans or rice, and tape closed. Use a pen or another slightly pointed object to poke a hole in the top and bottom of the container. Insert a wooden dowel.
2. Spread newspapers on your work surface, place the grager on the newspaper and paint the grager with bright acrylic paints. Let it dry before using.