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nMorenthan 100,000 spectators from around the world will flock tonWashington, D.C., today to see the cherry blossom parade and to havenfun at the Sakura Matsuri Japanese Street Festival. n
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Thenparade will be awesome! There will be decorated floats and giganticnhelium balloons (think Rose Parade meets Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade).nThere will be marching bands, clowns, horses, and antique cars, likena lot of parades—but there will be celebrities, too, including annAmerican Idol finalist, singer Marie Osmond, and Olympic skaternKristi Yamaguchi. Singers will sing, dancers will dance, and culturalngroups will perform.
Thenparade will be awesome! There will be decorated floats and giganticnhelium balloons (think Rose Parade meets Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade).nThere will be marching bands, clowns, horses, and antique cars, likena lot of parades—but there will be celebrities, too, including annAmerican Idol finalist, singer Marie Osmond, and Olympic skaternKristi Yamaguchi. Singers will sing, dancers will dance, and culturalngroups will perform.n
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Thenstreet festival will be the biggest Japanese street party in thennation, with three stages for Japanese performances and more than 200nmartial artists showing off their skills. There will be a widenvariety of Japanese and Asian restaurant booths, cultural exhibits,nand vendors. Anywhere you can see ninja and samurai while eatingnsushi and tempura is great, as far as I’m concerned!
Thenstreet festival will be the biggest Japanese street party in thennation, with three stages for Japanese performances and more than 200nmartial artists showing off their skills. There will be a widenvariety of Japanese and Asian restaurant booths, cultural exhibits,nand vendors. Anywhere you can see ninja and samurai while eatingnsushi and tempura is great, as far as I’m concerned!n
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nCreatencherry blossom art.
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Inused to love this project when I was a kid. Get India ink, white andnred paint (tempura or acrylic), a sponge, drinking straws, and whitenpaper. Use the dropper from the ink bottle to squeeze a large drop ofnink onto the paper near one of the bottom corners. Quickly raise thenstraw to your lips, place the other end to one side of the ink drop,nand blow the ink across the paper. Usually the stream of India inknwill naturally branch off; reorient your straw and continue to blowneach branch until the ink is dry. You can add more (smaller) drops ofnink, as needed, in order to make a pleasing picture of a cherry treenbranch.
Inused to love this project when I was a kid. Get India ink, white andnred paint (tempura or acrylic), a sponge, drinking straws, and whitenpaper. Use the dropper from the ink bottle to squeeze a large drop ofnink onto the paper near one of the bottom corners. Quickly raise thenstraw to your lips, place the other end to one side of the ink drop,nand blow the ink across the paper. Usually the stream of India inknwill naturally branch off; reorient your straw and continue to blowneach branch until the ink is dry. You can add more (smaller) drops ofnink, as needed, in order to make a pleasing picture of a cherry treenbranch.n
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nAllownthe India ink branch picture to dry.
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nPutnsome red and white paint onto a palette (or sturdy paper plate), andnuse the sponge to mix some of the paint into a pleasing pink color.nIt’s nice to leave some of the white and red unmixed so that there isna variation in the color of the cherry blossoms. Dab a corner of thensponge into pink, red, and white paint and then dab cherry-blossomnsplotches onto the India-ink branches.
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nAlsonon this date:
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nAnniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project
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nArcheologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers’s birthday
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