Quite a few of you sent me emails and Facebook comments about the little yellow chicks made from clay pots, so here's another fun craft made with a clay pot.
Remember Winnie The Pooh? One of Pooh's misadventures was getting stuck in Rabbit's hole. Rabbit tries to push and push and can't get Pooh out. Well, consider this craft Rabbit indulging in his stash of honey and now, he's the one who's stuck.
How cute is this little "Rabbit Stuck in a Hole?"
This is another craft I took to the nursing home for my father (who had Alzheimer's disease) and me to work on together. Like I've said, it always made him feel as though he was being helpful, and it made our time together go so much more smoothly. We always made enough of whatever we were working on to give to others; both in and out of the family.
Here's what you'll need for one "Rabbit Stuck in a Hole:"
One 3-inch clay pot One 3-inch Styrofoam ball
Elmer's glue White acrylic paint
Yellow acrylic paint Pink acrylic paint
1-inch paint brush One stippling brush
One 1-inch diameter pom-pom
small piece of white felt
small piece of pink felt
small amount of green "Easter" grass
paper plate
Let's get started...
Put a generous glob of white paint onto the paper plate and paint a little more than half of the Styrofoam ball. Because the Styrofoam ball is so porous, it will take a bit of paint. Set aside to dry.
Put a small amount of both the yellow and the pink paint on the paper plate, and begin to stipple the outside of the clay pot with both colors. Set aside to dry.
Using the white felt, cut out the bottom of the rabbit's feet. The three-toed feet are a little less than 2-inches long and about 1 1/2-inches wide. Then cut out six 1/4-inch diameter pink felt circles and two 1/2-inch diameter pink felt circles. Glue the pink circles onto the two white felt feet as shown and set aside.
Once the clay pot has completely dried, apply a ring of Elmer's glue around the inside of the clay pot, approximately a 1/4-inch from the top. Lay the Easter grass inside, then apply a second ring of glue and lay the Styrofoam ball inside -- making sure the painted side of the ball is facing up.
At this point, to some of you, it may resemble an ice-cream cone, but to me, it's definitely going to be a silly rabbit that got stuck in a hole.
Glue the white pom-pom slightly off center. Then glue the two feet just below the rabbit's tail.
You've just completed your "Rabbit Stuck in a Hole." And like I say to all my Crafting Sistas each month, "It's your project, so paint the pot whatever color you want to paint it. Make it a brown bunny instead of a white one; or put moss around the edge of the pot instead of Easter grass.
Anyway you look at it, he's really cute. Be sure to sign and date the bottom of the pot.
Sometimes I feel a little like Pooh and like that rabbit you just made -- I feel a bit stuck right now in my life. I'm not exactly here or there. I'm stuck in the middle of no man's land. I'm not sure where to go in my life, and I'm not even sure I know what my options are or if I even have any. I look around and see God using others all around me. The use of their talents astounds me. I'm waiting it out until ....well, I don't know when.
So I keep plugging along...and praying...and asking God to get me "unstuck." I wonder how God finds me useful at the moment. I'd like to think that maybe some of my words on my blog resonate with someone who reads them or that my "day-job" helps others. But right now, I find things to be frustrating; not going anywhere.
I'm waiting to get unstuck right now. I'm tapping my head like Winnie the Pooh and saying, "Think, think, think!" So far, I'm still stuck in no man's land waiting for the pudge to budge.
In the meantime, I'm going to keep plugging away at my blog, because its healing power is good.
Happy crafting, happy Easter, and most important, happy family-time! Cherish every moment of it.
