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How to Create a Map With Light Markers Candle

For rainy day crafts or full-scale party planning, making treasure maps with simple household items is an activity children love. With adult supervision, kids can draw treasure maps, distress them, and hide them away for future fun. If you're hosting a party, provide these homemade pirate booty guides to children as a map to prizes, treats and favors. Not only are treasure maps fun, they also encourage artistic activity and representation of real - and imaginary - places.

Things You'll Need

Paper (white, or brown paper bag)
Markers, crayons, or pencils
Candle or lighter (optional)
Lemon juice (optional)
Paint brush (optional)
Tea bag (optional)

Instructions

How to Create a Treasure Map with Lights, Markers or Candles
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  Treasure maps are easy to make using readily available household items.
  
  Decide if you want your treasure map to be visible or invisible. Make a treasure map with invisible ink by brushing your design onto paper with a paintbrush and lemon juice. Reveal the design by safely exposing your treasure map to heat, most easily, a light bulb.
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  Use a homemade treasure map as part of a pirate costume.
  
  Draw your map with markers, crayons or pencils onto white paper or, for an antique appearance, on a plain brown paper bag. Mark North in a corner of the map.
  
  Repeatedly roll and crumple the paper for a weatherbeaten look.
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  Grown-up made treasure maps can guide party goers to hidden treats.
  
  Burn the edges of the treasure map with a lit candle or a lighter. If you wish to burn holes in the treasure map, be ready to blow out the flames quickly so that you do not burn away portions of illustration you wish to keep.
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  Use a handkerchief as a quick pirate's headcovering.
  
  Stain blotches of the treasure map by pressing a wet tea bag onto the paper or smearing it across portions of the map to attain a shipwrecked appearance.

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