Making a Gift for Mom

 Making a Gift for Mom

    Tammy decided to make her mother a birthday gift. Her goal was to use recycled materials, and she had magazines and milk cartons to work with. She picked up a milk carton and studied it closely. "I could use this to make a vase," she thought. "I could cut off the top and paint it yellow to match our kitchen." She decided that the project would require about an hour to complete.

    She began looking through a magazine. "What could I create using these colorful ads?" she wondered. Suddenly, she had a great idea. First, she would look at the details on each page and tear out ads with red and purple colors, separating the pages by color. Then she would cut triangles from them to use for beads. She would roll the triangles tightly around a pencil, slip them off, and glue them closed. Finally, she would string the beads to make a brightly colored bracelet. Tammy thought her mother would like it better than the vase. However, she was concerned because she knew the bracelet would take more time than the vase to finish.

    Looking at her watch, Tammy said, "Fortunately, I have enough time." However, she wasted no time gathering all the materials that she needed and starting on the work for her mother's special gift.