Monday Make A- Witchlet Crafts Puppets & Bird Feeders

Earth Puppets: Litha/Midsummer Craft for Witchlings
by WindSeeker; Cauldron & Broomsticks

Summer Solstice, Litha, Midsummer, Gathering Day, Feill-Sheathain: longest day of the year, and the shortest night; when the sun reaches his apex in the sky, and the days will now grow shorter as the light begins to wane. To celebrate the Summer Solstice with your young ones, try making Earth Puppets.

Materials:

• Use natural items found in the yard
• tape
• glue

The easiest kind of puppets can be made from a twig. Select a twig that forks. You now have 2 arms and a handle to hold the puppet with. Find a fallen flower, and tape the stem to the handle for the head. You can also tape the stem of a fallen leaf to the handle for the head. For clothing, wrap a leaf around the handle, and your puppet has natural summer wear. Another puppet can be made with a pine cone. Glue the pine cone to the forked twig, for the head. Dried and fresh grass make loads of hair styles, beards, and mustaches. Use seeds or small rocks for eyes, nose, and mouth. Make clothing out of leaves and bonnets out of flower petals or acorn caps. Use a large box or table for the stage, and enjoy the show.

 

Fairies' Feathered Friend Feeder: Litha Craft for Witchlings
by WindSeeker; Cauldron & Broomsticks

Making this craft is a good way to tell child how fairies, brownies, and sprites ride on the backs of birds to get from one place to another if it is too far to walk.

Materials:

• An empty milk carton
• nontoxic paint
• glitter
• white glue
• Popsicle sticks
• 10" wooden dowel w/ 1/4" diameter
• wire hanger (cut bottom of hanger for inserting into milk carton)
• birdseed.

Rinse out milk carton thoroughly. Do not completely open top, rather glue open spout back together. Cut 3" wide by 4" long arched openings on "spout" side and opposite side of carton, with base of opening approx. 3" from bottom of carton. Let the child paint the outside of the carton in Litha colors of red, yellow, orange, white, green. Before the paint dries let child sprinkle colored glitter all over the carton, (birds are attracted to shiny objects). Let carton dry. Glue painted or non-painted Popsicle stick shingles onto the top of the carton as a roof. For the perches, poke holes in the carton just below the openings, and slip the wooden dowel through the holes. Poke two holes in the top of the carton just under the roof, insert one end of the cut hanger into each hole. Fill the bottom of the carton with wild birdseed. Hang in a spot that is easy to view, but far enough away from fences or other objects to thwart predators.

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Monday Make A – Snowman Wind Chime & Pine Cone Bird Feeder

* Snowman Wind Chime*
posted by Susie

You will need:

• 4" ceramic clay pot
• 4" Styrofoam ball
• 36" long 1" diameter plastic candy cane
• lg felt snowman hat
• wooden carrot (for nose)
• 2 buttons (5-1/2" and 2-1")
• 1 jar decoart snow tex
• white acrylic paint
• green felt square
• 3 large bells
• 2 yard jute
• plastic holly blush
• scissors
• xacto knife
• flat paintbrush
• hot glue gun and sticks
• craft stick ruler

Add some acrylic paint to the snow tex jar. Use craft stick to stir until consistency of paint. Cover the entire pot with mixture, let dry. Cover the Styrofoam ball with the mixture, let dry. Use knife to cut candy cane into 3 equal lengths to use as chimes. Cut 3 12" pieces of jute and tie a bell to the end of each piece. Gather ends of jutes (the bell less ends) making sure chimes hang at different lengths. Thread through the hole in the bottom of the pot and knot. Glue to secure knot and trim off excess jute. Glue Styrofoam ball to the top of pot to form the head of the snowman. Cut 2, 12" x 2" strips of felt, glue ends together to make one long strip. Make 2" cuts along each end to make fringe. Wrap scarf around neck of snowman and glue to secure. Glue the 1/2" buttons on the face (2 for the eyes and 3 for the mouth). Glue the carrot nose on. Glue the 1" buttons down the front of the pot for buttons. Cut a 12" piece of jute and knot the ends together. Use the scissors to make a small hole in the top of the Styrofoam ball. Push the jute knot into the hole and glue to secure as a hanger. Use the scissors to make a small slit in the top of the hat. Thread the hanger up through the slit and glue the hat to the foam ball. Add blush to cheeks and glue the holly onto the scarf.

* Pine Cone Bird Feeders *
Posted by Susie

You will need:

• Pine cone
• yarn
• peanut butter
• bird seed

This is a really easy one for little kiddies. Take your pine cone and tie a strong piece of yarn around the base of it. Cover the pine cone with peanut butter. Roll the pine cone in bird seed and hang from a branch outside. You can put more PB and seeds on it when the birds finish it. Try different seeds to attract different types of birds.

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