Carols by Candlelight - a nifty idea!

My APS, Sharon has been busy getting our Halloween Horrors bottles ready for our special pack meeting and came up with this wonderful idea to hold the candles for Carols by Candlelight.

We normally cut off the top of the 2 litre cold drink bottle and throw away but a candle fits perfectly into the top.

Tissue paper was glued on with Podge (the same as the Halloween bottles) for effect.
I think this is awesome and of course, very handy.

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Akela Joy

Halloween Horrors!

Aren't these just too cool for words?

We are having a sleep-over on the 30th October and before the cubs get to watch DVD's, we are going to get them to complete their own little horror lamp.

These are very simple to make and thanks to Pack-o-Fun for the great idea!
Cut a 2 litre plastic cold drink bottle to the desired size.
Tear tissue paper into pieces and paste onto bottle. I used podge and then painted the podge over the tissue paper as well just to make sure it stuck fast!

Decorate as desired but I cut out huge eyes from black cardboard. Fun foam can also be used.

A number of items can be used for the hair but whilst at a scrapping class, I purchased some really great 'ribbon' which was ideal.

The handles are made from pipe cleaners.

Now that they are completed, a small torch is placed inside at the bottom which gives it that eerie effect.

To hold the torch upright, a small amount of sea-sand can be placed in the bottom but making sure it does not become too heavy.

Hope you have enjoyed this craft and if you have any ideas that you would like to share, please drop me an email.

Till next Time

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Akela Joy

Fabulous Finger Puppets

These are such fabulous finger puppets to make for the kids - whether they are in cub scouts or home-school or even just to play around the house with friends.

There are 4 different puppets to choose from- a tiger, a crocodile, a bear and an elephant.

Even some of our cub scout leaders on training had fun making them!

If anyone would like to get a pattern for some of these finger puppets, just leave me a comment together with your email address.

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Akela Joy

Handmade Angels

Every month we have a ladies get-together and when it is my turn to host, I make a little something for them.

Little angels made from beads.

Very easy and very cute.

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Joy

Our craft today at Cub Scouts was great fun and very easy!

We took 6 tongue depressors.

4 across and then 2 at the back to hold them in place.

We use normal wood glue.

4 holes were drilled in the sticks so that the cubs could hang these on their doors.

Each cub could write whatever he wanted to that related to the theme.

Keep Out

Trespassers keep out

Private

Animals cut out from foam could also be an idea to stick onto this door hanger.

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Joy

Northern Lights Craft

Our craft this week at cubs was to make "the northern lights"

Place a considerable amount of dishwashing liquid in a square bowl - big enough to either take a size A4 or A5 paper - add water and stir and shake the water up to make lots and lots and lots of bubbles. (It is recommended not to use a straw as this mixes the colours together and that is not what you are wanting)Gently drizzle some colouring on top of the bubbles. You can drizzle them in a pattern or just any how. Use a few different colours.

Then gently place the paper on top of the bubbles and count to about 5. Lift the paper and "walah" you have the Northern Lights!

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Akela Joy

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Mothers Day butterfly - 8th May 2008

At Cub's today, we made a beautiful butterfly for the mothers.

This is an extremely easy craft that all the cubs could manage in no time.

These are the shapes that need to be cut out.

2 x shapes
1 x pipe cleaner for feelers
1 x pipe cleaner for the body (twirled)
1 peg (which was painted)

Place the 2 pieces of paper together and scrunch up.

Feed the twirled "body" pipe cleaner along the other pipe cleaner and twist this around the scrunched up part of the butterfly.

The ends form the feelers which can be turned at the top.

The peg is attached to the back of the butterfly.

A little card can be attached for mom.

This can be used as a paper holder.

The cubs really enjoyed this as it was simple and easy.

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Akela Joy
Should you need any craft for any event, just leave me a comment or email me - I am bound to have something that I can share with you.