Craft A Cornucopia

Craft A Cornucopia

Instructions


Ear of Corn: 

Corn Cornucopia

Ingredients: 1 piece of yellow felt, 1 green popsicle stick, 3-4 light yellow wooden beads, 3-4 light orange wooden beads, 3 yellow or light orange sticker gems, 2-3 yellow google eyes, 1 green popsicle stick.

 

Corn Cornucopia Step 1

Step 1. Cut one end off of the green popsicle stick at a sharp angle. Use this piece as a guide to cut a matching shape from the opposite end of the popsicle stick.


Corn Cornucopia Step 2

Step 2. Cut the yellow felt into a sharp angle at the bottom, then cut the top of the shape into a long, rounded ear of corn.

 

Corn Cornucopia Step 3

Step 3. Glue the popsicle stick “husk” to the bottom of the ear of corn.

 

Corn Cornucopia Step 4

Step 4. Glue the beads, google eyes, and gems in a scattered pattern on the yellow felt to create ”kernels”.

 

Corn Cornucopia Finished

Tomato:

Tomato Cornucopia

Ingredients: 1 large red sparkly pompom, 1 piece of dark green felt.

 

Tomato Cornucopia Step 1

Step 1. Cut the green felt into a round, spiky shape to imitate the green leaves at the top of a tomato.


Tomato Cornucopia Step 2

Step 2. Cut a tiny rectangular stem from the felt.


Tomatoes Cornucopia Step 3.1
Tomatoes Cornucopia Step 3.2 

Step 3. Glue the tomato top to the red pompom and press down hard.


 Tomatoes Cornucopia Step 4.1
Tomatoes Cornucopia Step 4.2

Step 4. Glue the stem to the center of the top of the tomato.


Eggplant:

Eggplant Cornucopia

Ingredients: 1 piece of purple felt, 1 purple fuzzy sticks, 2 green shell paillettes.

 

Eggplant Cornucopia Step 1

Step 1.Cut the purple felt into a long, rounded shape.


Eggplant Cornucopia Step 2

Step 2. Glue the fuzzy stick around the outside edge of eggplant shape.


Eggplant Cornucopia Step 3

Step 3. Glue the two shell palettes to the top of the eggplant to create leaves.


Pea Pod:

Peas Cornucopia

Ingredients: 1 green popsicle stick, 2 light green shell paillettes, 3 small green wooden beads, 1 light green fuzzy stick.

 

Peas Cornucopia Step 1

Step 1.Glue the three green beads to the green popsicle stick to create the “peas”.


Peas Cornucopia Step 2

Step 2. Fold the two light green shell paillettes in half. Glue the inside of the crease to the top edge of the popsicle stick so that the paillettes hang over both sides of the stick.


Peas Cornucopia Step 3

Step 3. Cut a light green fuzzy stick in half and create a spiral by gently twisting it around your index finger.


Peas Cornucopia Step 4

Step 4. Glue the spiral to the top of the popsicle stick behind the shell paillettes.


Sweet Potato:

Sweet Potato Cornucopia

Ingredients: 1 piece of brown felt, 2 brown striped fuzzy sticks.

 

Sweet Potato Cornucopia Step 1

Step 1.Cut the two brown striped fuzzy sticks in half.


Sweet Potato Cornucopia Step 2

Step 2. Fold each cut piece in half to create four “V” shapes.


Sweet Potato Cornucopia Step 3

Step 3. Glue the four fuzzy sticks together, connecting them at the bottom of the “V” shape you’ve created.


Sweet Potato Cornucopia Step 4

Step 4. Bend the tops of the fuzzy sticks and glue them so that they meet at the top, creating a football shape.

 

Sweet Potato Cornucopia Step 5

Step 5. Cut small, rounded shapes out of the brown felt to create “eyes”. Glue the eyes to the sweet potato body.


Orange:

Orange Cornucopia

Ingredients: 1 orange wooden disk, 1 green leaf paillette.

 

Orange Cornucopia Step 1

Glue the green leaf paillette to the top of the orange wooden disk.

 

Orange Cornucopia Finished

Cherries:

Cherries Cornucopia

Ingredients: 2 dark green leaf paillettes, 2 small red wooden beds, 1 light green fuzzy stick.

 

Cherries Cornucopia Step 1

Step 1: Fold the green fuzzy stick in half and bend it to create a curvy “stem”.


Cherries Cornucopia Step 2

Step 2: Slide one red bead onto the end of each stem.


Cherries Cornucopia Step 3

Step 3: Glue the two green leaf paillettes to top of the stem.


Squash:

Squash Cornucopia

Ingredients: 2 yellow fuzzy sticks, 1 piece of light green felt.

 

Squash Cornucopia Step 1

Step 1: Fold each fuzzy stick in half to create two “V” shapes.


Squash Cornucopia Step 2

Step 2: Glue the two fuzzy sticks together, connecting them at the bottom of the “V” shape you’ve created.


Squash Cornucopia Step 3

Step 3: Bend the tops of the fuzzy sticks and glue them so that they meet at the top, creating a football shape.

 

 Squash Cornucopia Step 4.1
Squash Cornucopia Step 4.2

Step 4: Use your thumb and index finger to pinch the top and bottom of each fuzzy stick and bend it into a squash shape.


Squash Cornucopia Step 5

Step 5: Cut a stem from the green felt and glue it to the top of the squash.


Grapes:

Grapes Cornucopia

Ingredients: 5 small fuchsia wooden beads, 1 piece of light green felt.

 

Grapes Cornucopia Step 1

Step 1: Glue two beads together and then glue another directly beneath each bead to create two by two grid.

 

Grapes Cornucopia Step 2

Step 2: Center the last bead at the bottom and glue it in place to create the “bunch”.

 

Grapes Cornucopia Step 3

Step 3: Cut a leaf shape from the green felt.


Grapes Cornucopia Step 4

Step 4: Glue the leaf to the top of the bunch.

 

Grapes Cornucopia Finished

 

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