Lucia Day #Bostik Bloggers

The latest Bostik Bloggers theme is Christmas and influenced by the Swedish tradition of Lucia Day we have made a candle crown and star wand. You can read all about the St Lucy celebrations here. 

We used:

Twisty green foliage wires
Shiny gold pipe cleaners
Blu Tack fine & wide glu pen
Red felt
Scissors
Twist the green wired together into a ring to fit your head. Then fold a sheet of red felt over length ways and then fold again so you have a strip of folded felt. Now cut into squares of about 5 inches, each of these then are rolled up to be the candle.

 Before rolling up and fixing with Blu Tack fine & wide glu pen, push the gold pipe cleaner through until the top is poking through by about half an inch -these is the candle flame, The rest of the pipe cleaner is used to wrap around and secure to the green wreath. Then cut off what is now required and use to make the other candles. I made 4 but could fit more onto the wreath if I wanted.

The final St Lucia wreath/crown.


Then we made a star boy wand, these are the boys who accompany St Lucy and her handmaidens in the Lucia Day procession. They have decorated conical star hats and star wands.

We used:

Gold card
Pen/pencil
Scissors
A star template (actually used a Christmas decoration)
Lolly sticks
Blu Tack fine & wide glu pen
Draw around the star template and cut out two gold stars.

Attach the stars using Blu Tack Fine & wide glu pen to the lolly sticks to make your wand.

Last month we did Snow crafts.

The craft box was provided to me by Bostik as part of the Tots100/Bostik Craft Bloggers Club