Start with a couple of glass votives you have on hand. Cut the twigs to be approximately the height of the votive (3″ in my case).
Then dab the sticks with hot glue and attach them to the candle holder.
Fill in the gaps with small twigs.
LEAF BALLS
Start out with two sizes of Styrofoam balls that are readily available for purchase. Such as a four-inch and a 6-inch.
Using around four fabric leaf packets that I found at the Dollar Tree store, but you can purchase leaves at any craft store. For this size ball, I don’t suggest using anything larger than a 3-inch leaf. Since there were several different varieties of leaves in these packets, I was able to vary the design and color of the ball.
I used floral pins to attach the leaves. These can be found in the craft area of many stores. You begin by placing one leaf in the middle of the ball and securing it with a floral pin.
Then you start to overlap several more leaves on top of it. Get a base of about 5 leaves.
Once your base is set, you lift the top leaf layer and start adding other leaves underneath them. Make sure that your pins do not show.
Keep adding layers of leaves. You will see how the ball is starting to fill in. You just continue to add leaves until you come to almost three-fourths of the way to the top of the ball.
At that point, begin layering in the leaves across the top. You do this so you won’t be able to see any of the ball once it is complete. Then continue adding leaves in an upright manner to make it look consistent with the other leaves.
Just keep filling in and building your leaf ball, using the same procedure of lifting and placing the pins so they are hidden. In the places on the top where some pins may inevitably show, use a dab of hot glue to hold them in slightly.
The leaf ball is almost complete at this point. Just keep adding small leaves and continue to build the ball so that it ends up looking like a head of cabbage or lettuce.
Down towards the bottom of the ball, some of the leaves may protrude more than you want them to. Just take a hot glue gun and dab a few spots to bring them to the layer above them. Try not to do this all over- it won’t look natural if all the leaves are flat. You still want the ball to look a little messy and loose.
Early Childhood Screening (ECS) is a health and development assessment for children ages 3 ½ years and older. Screening is provided by nurses, teachers, and professionals through your schoo...
Early Childhood Screening (ECS) is a health and development assessment for children ages 3 ½ years and older. Screening is provided by nurses, teachers, and professionals through your schoo...