Spirituality Page: Arts and Crafts

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Wish Jars

Create wish jars with plain or colored glass bottle and jars and gallery glass. Colorful buttons and sundry small items can be glued on and glitter applied. These little or big jars can act as a place for children to keep special objects or spell workings and acts as a containment and focus for small people spells.

Robe

Making a magic T-shirt Robe usually one of dad's Large white T-shirts with a drawstring at the neck is a good place to start. Next some fabric paints and they're good to go. If you explain to them that they need to use symbols or pictures etc., that are important to them when they want to do magic you'll be surprised at how well they do.

Elementary alter making

They take to this like ducks to water. If our child is anything to judge by you'll have altars everywhere in short order. The trick is to get them to confine their altar making to places where you won't run over it with the vacuum cleaner, the lawnmower, the car etc.