Family Fun - Cork
By Scraptivity in Berlin at August 11, 2023 | 7:30 pm | Print
This week here in the shop we have received corks! We have corks of every size and shape here. I’m guessing we could cover a good part of the map with all the Winery’s represented in our boxes and jars and buckets of corks! Now comes the challenge of using all these corks! We can make tissue box covers and cork boards and trivets and animals and Christmas decorations and angels and and and! So many fun ways to use them. So here are three ideas for you today.
Cork boat
Cork Fairy
Cork Fairy House
Materials needed:
Corks
glue
foam sheets or card stock
ribbon
beads
acorn hat
glitter
scissor
rubber bands
paperclip
feathers
Toothpick
pliers
For the boat:
How to: Line up 3 corks of the same size. Using 2 rubber bands bind them together to form the body of the boat. Cut out a peice of foam or cardstock to make the sail. Is your sail a triangle or a rectangle? Poke your toothpick through the top and bottom of the sail and stick it into the middle cork. Make a bunch of them and have a race!
For the fairy house:
Cut a semi circle and shape into a cone for the roof. Glue to hold in place and on the top of your cork. Using your paperclip bend into a curling shape and add your beads. Using your pliers bend the clip so your beads won’t fall off. Stick it into the top of the cone and glue in place. Add beads and glitter to decorate.
For the fairy:
Glue a bead to the top of the cork for her head. My bead did have a face but if yours does not you can use a sharpie to draw one. I added an acorn hat and glued in place. Ribbon glued at the back and wrapped around and glued again at the back became her dress. I used 4 feathers for her wings and added a couple of beads for decoration. Cute!!
Please come visit our fairy village in Volunteer Park for the month of September. Weekends you may find vendors in the gazebo offering free activities for the children. See our website for details. www.Scraptivity.net
A few books to extend the activity:
Cork Boat: A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built -John Pollack
Don’t Pop Your Cork on Mondays!: The Children’s Anti-Stress Book -Adolph Moser
DIY Wine Corks: 35+ Cute and Clever Cork Crafts - Mellissa Averinos
In honor of our Fairy Village in September Scraptivity will offer Fairy Garden Building for the month of September. Please call in advance to make sure there is enough room in the studio for you and or your group. Full gardens including baskets will take about and hour and the cost is $20. This is great fun and your garden can be displayed in Volunteer Park as part of the village. You will take your creation home that day and if you are showing in the village you will take it home at the end of the month. For more information please call or stop in at the store.
