Cornucopia Crafts

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02 Nov 2006 06:10 AM

Dimensional crafts are often the coolest but that doesn't mean they have to be difficult. Check out these ideas for cornucopia crafts that you and your youngsters can make and use as decorations for autumn and Thanksgiving.

Add a New Dimension

You will need a light piece of craft wood or plastic to get started. Sketch the shape of a cornucopia basket onto the background. Fill it in by gluing on clean twigs. At the opening glue on some shapes of fruits and vegetables. These can be cut from craft foam and various textured fabrics. Make fuzzy peaches from terrycloth. Find some vinyl to create fruits or vegetables that have leathery skins. Glue on beads to make grapes. Glue a few pretty autumn colored leaves (preserved or silk) around the bottom of the basket.

Cornucopia Table Topper

Roll a piece of cardboard into a cone shape and secure with heavy tape or staples. Cover the entire cone with woven strips of brown construction paper to mimic a basket. Push some crumpled paper into the pointy section and add a few drops of glue to keep it from falling out. You can cover the paper with a bit of filler such as moss or raffia to hide it.

Glue assorted fruits and vegetables inside and around the opening. Save a few to set on the table outside the opening. You can find artificial fruits and vegetables in home décor sections of many stores or even use toy foods, or you can make your own. Paint Styrofoam balls to look like apples, oranges, or tomatoes. Make bananas, cucumbers, squash and eggplant from simple tubes of appropriately colored fabric, glued with fabric glue, and stuffed with fiberfill.

Fill in some of the empty spaces with acorns and nuts. Add a pretty bow made from ribbon, fabric, or paper, and sprinkle some autumn leaves around.

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Styrofoam Ball Pumpkins

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Sherry Holetzky is a work at home mom and freelance writer. Married to her best friend, Sherry and her husband are raising their family in a quiet rural setting in the beautiful Ozark Mountains.

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