Article: Go online and find a picture of a trophy outline. You can use search terms such as "trophy clip art" or "trophy outline." You can also use a page from a coloring book. Be sure to print the trophy out on regular printer paper.  The trophy needs to be the same size you want your final trophy to be. If you need to, use an image editing program, such as Photoshop or Microsoft Paint, to make it bigger. You will be using graphite on the back of the paper to trace it onto the cardboard. If you don't want to do that, print the trophy out on cardstock to use as a stencil instead. Gold and silver are the most popular trophy colors, but you can make yours any color you want. Apply 1 coat of acrylic craft paint with a synthetic taklon brush, then let it dry, about 10 to 20 minutes. Apply a second coat of paint, and let it dry too.  You only need to paint the front of the trophy, but you need to paint both sides of the semicircle. You can use spray paint too, but be sure to work in a well-ventilated area. Apply the spray paint from 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 cm) away. Because cardboard is absorbent, you'll probably only need a single coat. You're only limited by your creativity and your materials in this step. Decide what sort of occasion the trophy is for, then decorate it accordingly. Here are some ideas for you:  Write "#1" or "Winner!" on the trophy with a black marker. Turn the trophy into a picture frame by cutting out a square or rectangle, then gluing a photo behind it. Draw designs over the trophy with hot glue, then paint over them using extra paint. This will give you a 3D look. Hot glue beads, buttons, or rhinestones to the trophy. Leave them as they are, or paint them to match the trophy.
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Print out an outline of a trophy. Paint the trophy and base your desired color. Decorate the trophy with paint, markers, or other embellishments.
Article: Spend some time thinking about why you are considering investing in stocks. Are you investing to build an emergency fund for the future, to buy a home, or pay for college expenses? Are you investing for retirement?  It's a good idea to write out your motivation. Try quantify it in dollars, considering how much money you need for your goals. For example, purchasing a home might require a down-payment and closing costs of $40,000. Retirement might cost $1 million or more. Most people have more than one investment goal. Those goals often vary in priority and timing. For example, you may want to buy a house in three years, pay for a child’s education in fifteen years, and retire in thirty-five years. Documenting your investment goals will clarify your thinking and help you focus on the goal. Your investment goals will determine the time during which your investments will remain in place. The longer investments can stay in place, the greater the probability of positive returns.  If your goal is to have money to buy a house in three years, your time frame, or "investment horizon" is relatively short.  If you are investing to fund your retirement 30 years from now, your investment horizon is much longer. The S&P 500 is a collection of 500 of the most widely held stocks. There were only four ten year periods between 1926 and 2011 where the S&P 500 as a whole produced a loss. For holding periods of fifteen years or more, there were no losses. If you bought and held these stocks over the long term, you would have made money. By contrast, holding the S&P 500 for just a single year would have produced a loss 24 times in the 85-year period between 1926 and 2014. Over a short period, stock are extremely volatile. As a consequence, investing for short time periods is riskier than investing for longer time periods. You can gain more if you've invested well. You can lose everything if you've invested poorly. All investments have risks because there is always a possibility that you will lose some of your money. Stocks are no different.  How much risk you are willing to take is called your "risk tolerance." Before making any investment, ask yourself, "How much money am I willing to lose in the short-term in order to make more money over a long period of time?"  In most cases, the more risk you take, the higher the potential return. But, there is also a greater likelihood of loss. One of the first rules of investing is to avoid losses when possible. Do not take on investment risk when it is unnecessary to reach your goals. Use one of the many free investment or retirement calculators found on the internet. Calculate the rate of return that you must earn and the investment needed to reach your goals.  For example, imagine you need $30,000 in three years, but can only invest $500 per month. You will need to earn a whopping 38.2% on your investment each of the three years to reach this goal. This means that you must accept an extraordinary amount of risk. Most people would consider such investments a bad decision. A better choice would be to extend your time horizon to four and one-half years. This would require a much more achievable and safe return rate 0f 4.8%. You could also increase your monthly investment from $500 to $775. This would let you reach your $30,000 goal with a realistic rate of return of 5.037%. Or, you could reduce your financial goal of $30,000 in 3 years to $19,621 in three years while investing the same $500 a month. To reach this goal, your return would only need to be 6% each year.
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Set your goals. Determine your time frame. Understand your risk tolerance. Calculate the investments needed to reach your goals.
Article: If you want the flower to look more dynamic, make sure that each piece of paper is a different color. Pick colors that will look good together, like red, purple, and yellow. If you pick colors that are too similar, like dark blue and purple, then they'll blend in together. For a more sturdy flower, you can use construction paper, and for a more loose, flowing flower you can use origami paper. Cut a large and small-sized flower from every paper. Follow the same or a similar design for each flower. You can just cut an ordinary flower with four or five petals. If you create three stencils in advance, you can use them to trace the same two shapes onto each paper. When you're done, just combine a large and small flower of a different color, placing the large flower below the small flower. Fan out the petals so they don't overlap too much. You should have three flowers made of two different colors.
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Find three sheets of colorful paper. Cut two flowers of different sizes from each paper.