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Trim a Thanksgiving Table with Acorn & Leaves
Trim a Thanksgiving Table with Acorn & Leaves
- White air-drying modeling compound (We used Crayola Model Magic.)
- Rolling pin
- Cookie cutters: miniature oak leaf and acorn shapes
- Crafts knife
- Stained-glass spray: red, orange, yellow, and green
- Scissors
- White card stock
- Fine-line marking pens: brown and dark green
- Unfinished wooden napkin ring
- Thick white crafts glue
- Glass stemware
- 1/16-inch-diameter circle punch
- Natural raffia
- Clear glass ivy bowl
- Glue gun and hotmelt adhesive
- Natural raffia
- Votive candle
- Roll out the modeling compound with a rolling pin to 1/8-inch thickness. Turn the compound regularly to keep it from sticking to the pin and rolling surface.
- Use cookie cutters to cut leaves and acorns. Use the crafts knife to create veins in the leaves and crosshatch details on the acorn caps.
- If making napkin rings, refer to Napkin Ring instructions. Otherwise, proceed as follows: Lightly spray-paint the shapes, layering colors for a variegated effect. You can spray colors over each other while wet. Spray the backs of shapes that will be used for place cards and stemware trims. Let dry.
- Cut a 3-3/4-x-5-inch rectangle from card stock.
- Draw a double-line border around the perimeter, using the brown marking pen on the outside and the dark green pen on the inside.
- Fold the shape in half.
- Write the guest's name, leaving room for the acorn and leaf trims.
- Glue the finished shapes in place.
- Use crafts glue to secure the veined leaves in two rows around a wooden napkin ring while the modeling compound is still flexible.
- Overlap the leaves, varying the directions and angles. Let some leaves extend over the edges of the ring.
- Allow the shapes to dry.
- Lightly spray the leaves and the ring, inside and out, referring to the painting instructions in Make the Shapes.
- Punch a circle at the top of an acorn and a leaf.
- Thread the shapes on a 10-inch length of raffia, and tie to the stem of the glass.
- Use stained-glass spray to spray the ivy bowl yellow at top, then finish with orange, following manufacturer's instructions.
- Spray one color on top of the other while still wet to blend the colors.
- When dry, hot-glue the acorns and leaves around the neck, then let them spill into a second row. Overlap the shapes, varying the angles.
- Tie raffia around the neck.
- Set a votive candle inside the bowl.
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