To: dannys@iis.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: Quick crafts
From: jim.speirs@canrem.com (Jim Speirs)
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 05:55:00 -0400
Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario)


Article #R131a.
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Film Canister Fire-starter Kit
Al Hoard
The Leader, August/September 1992.


Cut a piece of wooden dowel to fit into a film canister.  Glue
lighter flints to the base of the dowel (a mixed epoxy glue holds
best).  Store cotton balls along with the dowel inside the
canister.

To start a fire, remove a few cotton balls and fluff them out.
Place them in your tinder.  With a steel (a jack-knife blade),
strike the flints to produce sparks.  These will ignite the
cotton puffs, which in turn lights the tinder.

Scouter Al Hoard is Akela with the 2nd Armour/St. Luke's Cub Pack
in Peterborough, Ontario.


Santa Woggle
The Leader, December 1991


This quick and easy novelty woggle can be a fun gift for a
Scouting friend or just something to wear yourself during the
holiday season. For each woggle, you need a pill bottle or film
canister with lid. Thoroughly wash and dry the container. Fill
with small candies. Make a Santa hat from red felt with cotton
wool trim, glue to lid, and snap lid on container. Glue on googly
eyes, cotton wool eyebrows, a small red bead nose, and a cotton
wool beard. To make the slide, glue a pop-tin ring to the back.

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