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How to make your diatom baubles!

Print
1.Click on the icon for the colour or black and white version. It should open in Adobe Reader; print it out by selecting File > Print.
Colour
2. If it's the colour-it-yourself version, colour it now! If you want to get really fancy, you could even glue on some aluminium foil, glitter, feathers, or whatever...
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3. Carefully cut out each bauble, making sure to keep the two halves attached to each other.
Cut
4. Spread some glue on the uncoloured side of the two halves of each bauble.
Loop
5. Make a little loop of thread and place it at the end of the bauble that you want to be the top.
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6. Fold the two halves down the middle and squeeze them together, so that the thread is trapped inside. Let the glue dry.
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7. A paper clip bent into a hook would probably work too!
Decorate
8. Decorate, decorate, decorate!

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