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Have fun with this year's gifting and gift bringer's day on December 25th with tokens
from your yule tree!
Give customised tree shaped crayons that hold the conundrum of a
stuck coin!
Wrap in tissue paper and present inside a rolled up sheet of blank
paper and if wanted an outline or tub coloured yule tree colouring picture.
If you've time, space and resources gather together
a selection of glue sticks, sparkly gems and stickers so that on the day
you share your handmade presents, decorating the yule tree picture can
happen all at once.
Winter's
solstice - Yuletide
Why? you may well ask! this
is a developed idea from plum pudding and sixpence research & the recollection
of delight at finding extras in the most unexpected places. However, not much
liking the clink of metal on tooth or the gag of near choking, a coin partially
inserted into soft glittery crayon wax felt odd enough to be equally festive
and challenging enough to be fun!!
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To make
1. Prepare your coins for partial insertion by covering them with
a doubled layer of aluminium tin foil
2. Place the
tree mould on an oven tray and cut up your wax crayons.
3. Fill the tree mould with the crayon pieces and sprinkle in a little
of the glitter.
4. Put into a moderately hot oven and watch as the wax melts. Top
up each mould cavity as necessary
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5. Remove from the oven steadily and
leave to cool for 10 minutes
6. As the wax begins to set insert a foil covered coin into the centre
so that it's held in an upright position.
Leave to harden for an hour+.
7. Finish your crayons by removing them from the mould, trimming up
any edges and peeling, cutting and pushing back the foil to reveal the
coin inside. A craft knife will help slice the foil cleanly without scoring
the coin.
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Hang on the first weekend of december
- tree dressing day/s, and gift during the run up to and on December 25th
However you make and use your crayons,
enjoy them xx
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