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PETUNIA, The Pig - A Craft
written by: Hart Dowd
A CRAFT – Create “PETUNIA” The Pig
This is an excellent project for your children to create and enjoy.
We used this with great success at our Children's Youth Group.
You will need for each pig
* One plastic juice bottle with its cap
* A serrated knife
* A screwdriver
* A hammer
* Some pink felt
* Scissors
* Tacky Glue
* One long Pipe Cleaner
* Potting Soil
* Four Petunia Plants
* Plastic eyes
* 4 Large Corks
Directions:
1. With the serrated knife, cut an opening in the side of the bottle large enough to hold the four plants.
2. Punch four drainage holes opposite the opening on the plastic bottle.
....The easiest way: Set the bottle down with the opening facing up. Put a screwdriver through the opening and hammer it to make holes on the opposite side.
3. Punch a hole in the bottom end of the bottle for the pigs tail.
4. Cut a 4-inch square of felt diagonally to make two triangles.
....Fold each triangle again and glue the edges shut, forming ears.
.....Glue to the sides of the bottle, about 2-inches from the top.
....Let dry for at least ten minutes.
5. Cut 2 inch by 6 inch strip of the pink felt and wrap it around the pipe cleaner, leaving an end sticking out on one side.
Glue edges of felt.
6. Curl felt-lined pipe cleaner to make a tail, then put exposed end of pipe cleaner through the tail hole in the bottle and knot it.
7. Glue on two plastic eyes.
8. Pack the potting soil into the pig’s head before planting the flowers.
9. Place the four corks underneath the bottle, these feet will raise it up for drainage holes to work. Practice placement of the corks before gluing them to the bottle.
The young people used these as gifts for Mother’s Day, a birthday, and to take to friends confined to a sick bed, or to keep for themselves. The older young people made other animals as well as Miss Petunia Pig.
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