Canku Ota

(Many Paths)

An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America

December 27, 2003 - Issue 103

New Year's Time Capsule

The New Year is a big deal! I bet when you're older you'll look back and remember where you were, and what you were doing and all that. So why not make a time capsule, to open in the future, to record all the important stuff going on right now!

You Will Need:

• Cookie tin (or similar type); washed and dried
  
• Rag
  
• Sandpaper
  
• Spray paint
  
• "Painters" paint markers in assorted colors
  
• Memorabilia
  

• Take lid off the tin.
  
• Lightly sand the cookie tin (lid and bottom) all over on the outside to rough up the paint.
  
• Wipe the cookie tin off with rag.
  
• Spread out newspapers and place cookie tin on it.
  
• Spray paint the cookie tin. Let dry.
  
• Use paint markers to add your message. Some sample messages might be:
  Time Capsule Don't open until New Years Eve 2010
  These are a few of my favorite things! (add music notes around the words)
  Family members names could go around the exterior of the tin.
  
• Let each member of your family place a few special items in the tin.
  
• Some ideas to place in the tin could be:
  
• Pokémon cards
  Report cards
  Funny snapshots
  Your favorite jokes
  A note to each family member telling them how much you appreciate them.
  Baseball or other sports cards
  Anything that is important to you NOW.
  
• Place the tin some place you will be able to find it in 10 years! You could make the time to open the tin in any year that you wish, maybe less maybe more. You decide.

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