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How To Make Colored Ice Cubes!

How To Make Colored Ice Cubes!

Hi Guys! This is a simple ad easy way to make your own colorful and flavorful ice cubes for summer in one easy step! This is a great way to flavor water or to make drinks more colorful for pool parties or cookouts! Thanks guys!! What you will need: ~an ice cube tray ~different colored drinks (Gatorade-any color, cranberry juice- red, orange juice-orange, lemonade- yellow, etc.) ~and a freezer Step 1: Pour your colorful drinks into ice cube trays and…

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The Luck of The Maneki Neko Cats

The Luck of The Maneki Neko Cats

The Maneki Neko, also known as  “The beckoning cat” or “welcoming cat”, is a small cat figurine that is also a sign of luck and a great tradition in old Chinese and Japanese culture, but what does it REALLY mean? well lets see! To start off, Nobody is quite sure the EXACT date or reason for the appearance of Maneki Nekos, but what we do know is that they appeared during the Edo period (17th century to mid 19th century) in Japan and that there…

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Movie Review

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Movie Review

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is an amazing movie based off the second book in The Hunger Games series by Susan Collins. If you liked the first movie, The Hunger Games, than you’ll love this movie! It starts off with Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in district 12 acting out before they head off on their victory Tour of the 12 districts. As they act more in front off the cameras and talk less while off the cam, Peeta is feeling…

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Manatees- Another Reason to Move to Florida!

Manatees- Another Reason to Move to Florida!

Want a reason to move to Florida? Well Manatees are a living reason themselves! Manatees are one of few marine mammals closer to elephants and hyraxes rather than sea lions and whales. They are  big seal-looking creatures with flippers with finger nails on them and can grow up to 13 feet long and weigh 1,300-2,000 pounds. Manatees flippers are paddle-like with, like humans, finger nails on the end. For their size manatees are actually pretty fast,  they swim at about 3-5 MPH but have been timed swimming for short…

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Welcome To Sparklenews.com

Welcome To Sparklenews.com

Welcome to Sparklenews.com! If you are new to my website it is an online web-magazine/ online newsletter full of fun crafts, contests, articles, and much more! I try to post at least twice a week, if you want to know when my new articles come out, just  subscribe! you are also welcome to check out my other social media sites they are posted down below. Below this article there are also all my awesome articles! Above this under my website…

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Movie Survey

Movie Survey

Hi guys! I am going to be doing a movies survey do to the upcoming academy awards on March 2nd! If you want to vote and be a part of the survey, just email me your answers to the questions. Please make your answers clear and easy for me to pick out the answers to each question (you could possibly number each answer). The results to the survey will be posted by March 17th, so due to that I will need entries in by March…

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Snow Leopards

Snow Leopards

(Photo by Daniel Davis on flickr) These beautiful northern cats are grey with spots and are known for their bushy fur and big paws. These cats are nothing like the sweet house cat you have at home because they are ferocious cats. Some snow leopards can grow up to two feet to the shoulders and six to seven point five feet long and weigh up to 120 lbs.! Snow leopards are extremely hard to find in the wild because they are mostly active at dusk…

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Cool Valentine’s Day Cards

Cool Valentine’s Day Cards

1.) Pompom Pal card This is the first out of five cards I will show you how make! For this project you will need: – zigzag craft scissors and normal scissors –  white, red, and pink construction paper –  drawing/writing utensils and a sharpie or black marker – ribbon and heart stickers – glue or tape Now, lets get started! First, use your craft scissors to cut a large zigzag edged circle out of white construction or normal paper. Next use…

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Cute Simple Gifts that everyone loves!

Cute Simple Gifts that everyone loves!

These are some cute gift ideas for birthdays, get well soon, or thank you gifts! 1.) This is one small gift that I’m sure your friends would love, matching gloves and change purses! in the picture above you see 3 sets of matching gloves and change purses. Both the gloves and purses are by the Target brand Xhilaration. As you can probably tell, you can find these at Target.   2.) Another gift I think is awesome, but is simple,…

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