I love the book Beauty by Robin McKinley. It's been one of my favorites for many years. I was really excited to share this book with everyone, even though is was a bit longer than most of the books we read. Unfortunately we got so caught up in the craft we didn't talk about the book as much as I would have liked. Of course, I could talk about it for days, so maybe it was just right for a normal person.
The flowers we made were quick and easy and turned out very cute. Everyone had time to make several flowers before we had to go. Here is the link to the instructions.
http://www.infarrantlycreative.net/2011/10/how-to-make-felt-flowers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InfarrantlyCreative+%28infarrantly+creative%29
We ended up using hot glue instead of the suggested Fabri-Tac. Aleene's craft glue works, too, but takes awhile to dry. There were a lot of creative changes to the basic pattern for the flower. One of the mom's added a ring of green around the base for leaves, one girl made her flower petals longer by making the original cut wider, and someone glued two pieces of felt together for a two-tone flower. Everyone left with even more ideas on how to make the flowers their own.
Our next book is A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle. It's another really good book, plus, it's the book's 50th anniversary this year. A perfect time to read it, right?
The meeting for the book is going to be on May 23, 2012 at 7:00 pm. I hope to see you there!
Gloria
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