"Seeds of Faith" Potted Curio

This wonderful project is good for older children. They make wonderful gifts and is also easy enough to do if you wanted to gather a group of ladies together to make nursing home visitation gifts. Even though it would be best for Easter time, the message of the cross is really for any day of the year.

Materials:

• 4" clay pot
• Floral foam
• Large craft sticks (tongue depressors)
• Garden snips
• Tacky glue
• Brown paint
• Spray Varnish
• Felt
• Paper Grass
• Heart woodsie
• Popsicle stick
• Fine line permanent black marker or paint

Procedure:

1. Cut a piece of floral foam to fit the pot. Glue inside.
2. Taking 2 large craft sticks, cut one so it is 4" long. Paint both brown. Paint a popsicle stick brown. Paint the woodsie heart, if desired, your color of choice. If you are painting the words onto the heart, do this when the paint is dried. Spray all the pieces when they are dry (If you choose to leave the heart natural wood, you still have to spray it so the marker will not bleed when applied later).
3. Glue the large craft sticks together to form a cross. Place a dab of glue on top of the floral foam and insert the cross.
4. Cut a strip of felt and glue around the cross.
5. If you haven't already done so, print these words on the heart: "Plant seeds of faith here" with the black marker. Glue the popsicle stick to the back of the heart. Place a dab of glue on the foam and insert the stick into the foam.
6. Place more glue on the foam and, taking some grass, press down on the foam, covering it completely.

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