St Martin’s day is a European festival with families walking through villages and woods in the November dark evening. It preempts Advent festivities with its emphasis on light shining in the darkness. St Martins did a lot for the poor and homeless. Perhaps we could all do more too. To make lanterns you need theContinue reading “St Martin’s lantern craft making”
Category Archives: Crafts
Autumn Apple ideas
Craft idea Well Autumn is on its way. Here is a fun idea for using apples that are abundantly falling off the trees! Cut this way they make friendly little toadstools. Cooking idea Boil apples with a little water and you as many of these spices as you want to ..cloves ,cinnamon sticks ,aniseed andContinue reading “Autumn Apple ideas”
Blackberry Autumn Craft ideas
Blackberrys are fun to use as an ink ,find a feather and cut the end into a vee shape and dip into the juice of a blackberry . Or just hold the blackberry and smudge it on the page ,write your name or shapes ,rhythms etc Blackberries are very tasty when added into any muffinContinue reading “Blackberry Autumn Craft ideas”
Popping containers !
Use old containers like Pringle cylinders to play Pop goes the Weasle! Just squeeze the sides with the lid on and – pop it will come flying off. Many can be decorated and used to play rolling to each other games or… filled with some dry beans or seeds to make a shaker…. or youContinue reading “Popping containers !”
Rhythms on Stones
Here is a nice simple idea for making a game for practising rhythms. All you need are some pebbles and a marker pen.
Corn Doll Craft
Here are photos that I hope show you how to make a lovely corn decoration or corn doll using 5 heads of wheat. Of course they are normally golden yellow but if you want to you can get green young stems as they are more flexible the first time you try this. So get outContinue reading “Corn Doll Craft”
Make a lantern
with a glass jar and lantern songs to sing when it’s lit !
Candle making
In an old baked bean or other tin put wax from old candles. Then place this in an old saucepan filled with water that is heated up. This melts the wax. When you have melted it dip in an ordinary white candle and dip it into the hot wax. This gives it a red coating.Continue reading “Candle making”
Making a simple Jack in a Box
Jack in the box jumps up like thisJack in the box jump up tallWhere do you think our jack is hidingPeekaboo songsGoodbye
Spinning
Spinning with a simple home made bobbin. You will need : a potato or apple a pencil with a slit cut just below the top some sheep wool from a sheep or acrylic stuffing!
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