Pagan celebration time in our house usually means craft day. That's always a good time for my son. The boy loves arts and crafts, and I am thankful he does, as I do also. I try to figure out fun nature activities we can do for each sabbat to honor the Gods and the Earth. For Ostara this year we made potato stamps, painted eggs, and bought some plants for our garden. I am determined this year to get into gardening and composting, so that was a gift to myself kind of, in honor of mother earth of course.
It wasn't until after our crafts were done that I learned the easy way of making potato stamps. The easy way is to press a small cookie cutter into the cut side of each potato, and then use a knife to come from the outside and meet up with the cookie cutter shape. At that point the outer edges will (ideally) come right off leaving a great clean shape. What I did was very similar. The difference was I tried to carve out the shapes instead of using a cookie cutter. But looking back, I don't currently own any cookie cutters small enough to have done the job. They still came out pretty cool, and my son still liked using them. Maybe not as much as I did though.
Painting eggs was fun. Dad even joined in on the fun. He's not pagan, so the fact that he did that meant a lot to me. Neither of us are going to convert, but it is important to respect and celebrate the others tradition and beliefs. In my opinion. So, he painted an egg. We painted 6 eggs to decorate our home. I did one, my husband one, and our son 4. We all had a good time. Thank goodness for the washable tempera paint too, as our son found the carpet was the best way to remove the excess paint. Versus the large paint towel under all the crafts that is.
Happy Ostara, happy fertility. We will be planting the new additions for the garden just as soon as the weather is nice enough.
It wasn't until after our crafts were done that I learned the easy way of making potato stamps. The easy way is to press a small cookie cutter into the cut side of each potato, and then use a knife to come from the outside and meet up with the cookie cutter shape. At that point the outer edges will (ideally) come right off leaving a great clean shape. What I did was very similar. The difference was I tried to carve out the shapes instead of using a cookie cutter. But looking back, I don't currently own any cookie cutters small enough to have done the job. They still came out pretty cool, and my son still liked using them. Maybe not as much as I did though.
Painting eggs was fun. Dad even joined in on the fun. He's not pagan, so the fact that he did that meant a lot to me. Neither of us are going to convert, but it is important to respect and celebrate the others tradition and beliefs. In my opinion. So, he painted an egg. We painted 6 eggs to decorate our home. I did one, my husband one, and our son 4. We all had a good time. Thank goodness for the washable tempera paint too, as our son found the carpet was the best way to remove the excess paint. Versus the large paint towel under all the crafts that is.
Happy Ostara, happy fertility. We will be planting the new additions for the garden just as soon as the weather is nice enough.
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