This last weekend I hosted a table at my churches annual Ladies Dessert Night. Seeing as how we have no extra money right now and my china is blue, I went with what I had and made a Hanukkah themed table!
Well, my good neighbor (and creative mastermind behind most things crafty that I do) gets Martha Stewart Living and she knew I was doing a Hanukkah table and showed me just what Miss Martha had going on her Hanukkah table! Thus with the help of Crystal-Lee and my mom, two projects were born out of the cuteness found in the December 2009 issue of Martha Stewart Living!
First Project: Chocolate Dreidels
These were so easy and cute!
Melt some chocolate, dip the bottom of the kiss in the melted chocolate and stick it to the marshmallow. Wait about 2 min for that to harden and then stick a pretzel stick in the other end.
After that you can start dipping the little beauties into the melted chocolate and laying them on wax paper to harden.
Then you make some frosting that will get hard (we used royal icing) put it in a piping bag, put the symbols on and you have the cutest little dreidel / place card that there ever was!
Second Project: Star of David Candle Wraps
(FYI: My fingers were kind of bruised the next morning after doing these all in one sitting. I would recommend spacing this project out over a few days)
(FYI: My fingers were kind of bruised the next morning after doing these all in one sitting. I would recommend spacing this project out over a few days)
Martha, the generous woman that she is, put the templates for these little beauties on her website, so I just printed them out, used some navy blue paper my mother-in-law so graciously picked up for me, cut the paper to the height of the candle and started punching little baby holes with the sewing pins
800 hours and one badly bruised finger later, I had the most beautiful candles ever! (Even with the hurt finger, I would totally do it again - I LOVE them!)
4 comments:
Wow! I'm supremely impressed and now looking forward to our Hanukkah dinner next week even more :)
Amazing! Love the candles! And you're really making me wanna head to the kitchen and find some chocolate and marshmallows to eat. They look so yummy. :)
What's your #? How do I get a hold of you?
email me @ jeff walk the way.... j/k
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~Ben
I love the candles. I do a project similar to that in my second grade classroom and call it "Push Pin Art." I copy the design on regular white paper and then tape it to construction paper. The students get a push pin (much easier on the fingers) and they lay the paper on the floor and start punching! They take the designs home and hang them in their windows for decorations (I have lots of different holiday themed pictures).
Nancy (Brad Beyenhof's mom)
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