Week 47 Art Project

 

This week's art project was: This project requires spending money, but the cheapest suggestion costs roughly $2.  Buy a little basket, use one you already own (or a shoebox), or make one out of cardboard.  Decorate the outside with scrapbook or wrapping paper preferably with a bee or honeycomb design, but any will do (or you can draw bees/flowers on plain paper). Fill it with lip balm made with honey or beeswax (or any other pampering item made from honey), a bottle of honey, and/or candy made from honey.  You could include a variety of other items such as honeysuckle-scented items (think candles or body spray), honeycomb cereal, or use your imagination; the ideas are limitless.  You could even make or buy a dessert with honey as an ingredient.  (Inexpensive option: just buy one item.)   After your basket is complete, copy (handwrite or computer print) one or both of the below scripture verses onto a piece of plain or printed paper, glue it onto a decorated popsicle stick or straw attached to a piece of cardboard and insert it in the basket so that it is the centerpiece.  Make a promise to your honey that you will do your very best let sweetness drip from your lips, and not contention.

I made flowers out of tissue boxes and drew bees on them. I also drew bees on scrapbook paper and wrapped it around an empty mixed nut container. I included some honey lotion in the "flower" pot, and on the side included an IOU for a honey dessert taped on a bottle on honey, as well as a bag of honey mustard pretzels. I wrote Proverbs 16:24 (from above) on construction paper and included it in the container. I used the photo of the bees on flowers on the computer as a background for taking the photo and when presenting the gift to Mel.