Our Lenten Tree

Each day of Lent we add one decorated blown egg to our tree.

Branches also decorated with Ojos di Dios (God's eyes) a traditional Easter symbol.

Easter crafts

Ojos de Dios we weaved up last week using our handspun wool. Sol spent a long time weaving up the big one and heis so proud of it. The yellow is dyed with nettles, orange with beetroot and the green and lilac with food dye.



I have been using up my stash of that same wool to knit up woollen baby nappy wraps. I have made such a huge stash of these. I used the Ottobre pattern which is so, so easy. Same pattern I used with your beautiful wool, Suzanne. This babe will have one cosy little bottom.



Easter tree. Denise, can you see the special mama on her nest. Noah adores her! The boys made little Easter clay bowls, (I helped Noah and Leo with theirs) and they painted them to hold little treasures. They really love modelling with clay.



Sweet little Easter garden the boys made. They planted cress in egg shells and added clay characters. Sol chose to make an Easter hare, Leo made an orange Brer Rabbit and at Noah's request I made him a mama hen and babies and he painted them. There were little chocolate eggs scattered about their garden on Easter morning and the cress has grown beautifully now. They really enjoyed creating this little garden.

Sol's magic carpet

Sol has been so busy creating himself a magic carpet on his peg loom.

He loves this form of weaving and has made a beautiful magic carpet! I love the way he puts so much time, effort and enthusiasm into his ideas - such joy. He thoughtfully chose the colours and only needed minimal help finishing it off.

He's now busy making two more for his brothers so they can go adventuring with him.

The beautiful magic carpet! I wish him many joyous, magical adventures!

Conker webs

Using some of the conkers we collected yesterday we weaved conker webs today.

What we did:

Choose a nice, big conker.

Using a skewer pierce eight holes evenly around the edges of the conker.

Stick cocktail sticks in these holes. Trim off the pointy edges.

Choose your yarn, tie it onto a cocktail stick and off you go.

Under the next stick, over the top and to the next one.  Continue like this round and round and change yarn colour if you want to as you go along.

If you don't have horse chestnuts in your area, or  something similar, you could always try weaving ojos de dios if you haven't come across this before.