Use a candle or buy one if you don't have any on hand

Paste gold or silver stars all over the candle

Place it on a fancy china saucer

If it's a long, thin candle, light the candle and drip some wax onto the cup to hold the candle in place

Plastic beads are easy to work with and come in many different colors.

Use pipe cleaners to make rings, and decorate with various colors of tri-beads (these are shaped like triangles and stack together nicely) or pony beads (round)

Older kids or children who can get a parent to help could use bracelet-sized memory wire for this project.

This is a heavy-gauge wire that is coiled in the shape of a bracelet.

Each package will have about 12 rounds in it, but it’s all one strand, so you will need to use a wire cutter to snip a little more than a whole ring off for each napkin ring

Use needle-nosed pliers to bend a little curl into the end of the wire.

It should be tight enough that it won’t poke people using the rings, but loose enough that it holds the beads on the ring.

Thread the beads on the wire in a pattern or randomly (a pattern is nice because it lets you make all the rings match).

You’ll need about 50 beads for each ring, and should make four to eight rings for each gift, depending on how many people are in your family or normally eat with you at meals where cloth napkins are used.

2 cups  Sliced bananas

2 cups  Sliced strawberries

2 cups  Chopped pineapple or papaya

1 cup  Chopped peeled apples

1/2 cup  Ice cubes

1 ts Honey

2 cups  Sliced bananasIn a blender, combine the bananas, strawberries, pineapples, papayas, apples, ice cubes, and honey

Puree on high speed until smooth

Serve immediately for Mother's day breakfast.

1/2 c  Whole-wheat flour

1 tb Brown sugar 

1 1/2 ts Baking powder

1/4 ts Salt 

2    Eggs, separated 

4 tb Oil

1/2 c  Buttermilk

1/2 c  Apple Juice

1/4 c  Chopped almonds

Combine flours, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl

Beat egg yolks with oil, buttermilk, and apple juice. 

Stir into flour mixture with nuts until all ingredients are moistened (do not over stir).

Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into batter.

Spoon onto a hot, greased griddle and turn once when bubbles appear.

Makes 8 to 10 pancakes.

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