# 15   Messy Craft Gifts

I have always loved crafts. I enjoy doodling- abstract, kinda weird stuff, knitting, jewelry

making, clay works, painting (bad at it), pretty much any 3-D kind of  objects out of any 

materials.

In the years , I taught elementary, my classes did a lot of arts and crafts for various themes

and seasons. We made gifts for Father's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas gifts, Valentines' ,

Thanksgiving, and Hallowe'en. Often times, our projects were very messy but we always

 cleaned up before anyone discovered the mess.  Sadly, not always...

A Father's Day gift we would make was paper weights. We would take marbles of all sizes

and crack them with a hammer (not break them).  Then we put them in large empty 

plastic prescription containers, put them on tin cookie sheets and bake them in the oven.

Plastic burning is not pleasant, best to do after lunch.  They always melted into odd shapes

and Dads always said they "loved them". What else could they say to their kid in primary.

LOL  We never lost our marbles.  We just repurposed them. Next time Mom's gifts !!

Faith Always !! 


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