This year it was December before I knew it and I was making cards with my class. We used a range of left of pieces from previous years and I posted samples that I had been their inspiration. The challenge was the children then had to make their own version mixing up the ideas.
The range help to cater for all the different abilities in our hub and the mixing of ideas gave children who I had worked with before the opportunity to challenge themselves. Although this year I did very little to help them. Once they had made 3 cards they could go a step further and try one that also left the recipient with a tree decoration.
Everyone found this a little trickier keeping all the pieces still, trying to hold the ribbon straight, giving yourself enough ribbon to go around the first bead and then add a little more to create the illusion of a tree. But we did it we made 25 in an hour. Most people start from the bottom of the tree we started from the top using a double over hand knot so the decoration could hang on the tree.
We then pushed the string and knot through a star shaped bead (to hide the knot).
Each turn we added more ribbon. After about 8 beads we stopped. and tied them off using 2 single over hands..
The finished product on silver cards made the decoration stand out. We we attached using double sided tape, so it was easy to pull off.
Then I challenged myself, I love the idea of love hope joy and peace all through the year but at Christmas time especially to I thought how to best represent this. I looked at a lovely wooden decoration with a heart, anchor and cross that I received when I was younger. To get the heart and anchor to stay in shape I would need a wire (which I didn't have). So I tried the cross.
