Day 21 at Beccy's Place - S is for Springs . . .

. . . transformed into Shiny Silver Spring Stars!

I'm playing along with the

Ninth Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

I'm not colouring at the moment but I am working on Christmas craft projects for creative little hands around our neighbourhood ... the endless months of Covid-19 lockdowns has brought our community much closer and I look forward to sharing more crafty adventures with them over the coming weekends and school holidays now that restrictions have eased.

Beccy's prompt for Day 21 is the letter "S"

(Beccy's post with "S" inspiration words and

adorable sheep card to inspire is HERE)

My "S" project is a Shiny Silver Spring Star ornament.

My "S" project comes from the leftovers from making kid's activity kits.

The leftovers are springs ... the springs that hold wooden pegs (clothespins) together.  After madly twisting pegs apart in readiness to use the wooden pieces for kid's craft activities, I tossed all the springs into a bag, not knowing what I would do with them but hey, I'm a crafter and we all know that all sorts of bits and pieces come in handy ... one day.  Well that day is today.  In my wanderings around cyberland, I found a tutorial for star ornaments (see link below).

It takes ten of these peg springs to make each ornament.  Gently pull the ends apart of the first spring and slide one end into the coiled end of the second spring, then tuck the other side of the end into the other side of the coiled end ... hope that makes sense ... sometimes you have to jiggle the ends a bit to fit neatly into the coil.  Take another spring and attach, continuing until all ten springs make a wonky chain.  Join the ends to close the loop, making a wonky circle.  Adjust the springs to form a star shape (mountain-valley-mountain-valley style) and put a drop of superglue into each coil.  Finish off the ornament by tying a ribbon through one of the star points to make a loop for hanging.

   

I confess, I love this ornament ... think I might have to find some more wooden peg craft activities so that I have more "leftovers" to make some more star ornaments, along with a rustic tree to hang them on.  I think the older, stronger, little hands will enjoy pulling pegs apart and make some of these too.

*** INGREDIENTS ***

metal springs - 10 per star

* the metal springs released when wooden pegs (clothespins) are pulled apart *

super glue

ribbon-twine-string-cord - to hang the star ornament

*** REFERENCE ***

This project was inspired by the "Clothespin Spring Star”

video tutorial by “Easy Kids Crafts” HERE.