Rosh Hashanah Crafts
Apple Candlesticks
What You'll Need:
- Two large apples
- Candles
- Potato peeler
- Lemon juice
How to Make It:
With the potato peeler, make a hole about halfway through the middle of an apple. remove the cored section. Insert a candle snuggly into the hole. Carefully carve designs on the apple with the tip of the potato peeler. Rub the designs with lemon juice to keep them from turning brown.
Fragrant Apple #1
What You'll Need:
- 6 oz. apple cinnamon potpourri
- 1 1/2 to 2 cups white glue
- Non-stick cooking spray
- Wax paper
How to Make It:
Break potpourri into small pieces. Gradually mix glue into the potpourri, until the potpourri holds together and can be easily shaped. Spray a piece of wax paper with non-stick cooking spray. Working on wax paper, roll a 2-inch ball of potpourri, then flatten into an apple shape. Add a short snake of potpourri for the apple stem. If you want to have the apple, make a small hole near the top with a sharpened pencil. Air dry overnight. When dry, insert a piece of yarn through the hole to hang.
Fragrant Apple #2
What You'll Need:
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1 cup apple potpourri
- 1/2 cup water
How to Make It:
Mix together flour, salt and potpourri. Gradually add enough water so the dough sticks together. Shape or mold into an apple. Refrigerating the dough makes it easier to work with. Air dry.
Fragrant Apple #3 (Easy)
What You'll Need:
- Apple template
- Red poster board
- Scissors
- Hole punch
- 6" yarn
- Glue
- Apple potpourri
How to Make It:
Cut an apple shape out of poster board (see template). Punch hole in the top of the apple and thread the yarn through it. Drizzle glue onto one side and sprinkle potpourri into glue. Let dry and repeat for the other side. Hang the apple by the yarn.
Pressed Flower New Year's Cards
What You'll Need:
- Flowers with a few leaves
- Two sheets waxed paper
- Sheet white paper, folded in half (one for each card)
How to Make It:
Collect some flowers, with a few leaves from each . Carefully place the flowers and leaves between the sheets of wax paper, then lay several heavy books on top of them. Two weeks later, carefully remove the flowers and leaves. Open the white paper and lay flat on a table. Gently glue the flowers and leaves to one half of the white paper. Cover with the paper with clear contact paper. Trim off excess contact paper.
Honey Bee Pot
What You'll Need:
- 2 1/2 oz. baby food jar, cleaned and with the labels removed
- Black and yellow poster paints
- Three black pipe cleaners
- One small white coffee filter
- Black marker or goggley eyes
How to Make It:
To make the bee's body, paint black and yellow strips vertically on the baby food jar. Ask a grownup to help you cut the coffee filter in half. These will be the wings. Bunch one end of the filter and wrap the end of a pipe cleaner around it to hold it securely. Repeat for the other half of the filter. Wrap the pipe cleaners around the rim of the jar so that the filters stand out on opposite sides like wings. Bend the third pipe cleaner in half and twist it around the rim so that the ends stand up in front like antennae. Draw on eyes with black marker or glue two goggley eyes. Fill the jar with honey and you have a wonderful, fun honey pot for dipping apples!
Beeswax Candles
What You'll Need:
- Two 8- x 8-inch sheets of beeswax
- Scissors
- Two 9-inch wicks
How to Make It:
Lay the wick along the edge of the sheet of beeswax so that there is a 1-inch overhang (this is the part of the wick you will light). Beeswax is very malleable at room temperature; if the beeswax feels stiff, warm it slightly with a hair dryer. With the palms of your hands, roll the wax around the wick very tightly and evenly. Smooth the seam and the bottom of the candle with your thumb to even it. pinch the wax around the wick to smooth it. Place your beeswax candles in holders for a fragrant Rosh Hashanah dinner table centerpiece.