One of my most recent pinning sprees came from a need to incorporate new ideas into our Sukkah decorating. I wanted to find a craft that would uniquely display the handiwork of my children, and bring a new twist to decorations we've done in the past. Among other great craft ideas, I stumbled upon this citron sun catcher from The Shiksa. I just love her!! I found her craft to be fun, easy, trendy and beautiful- everything I love!
I started to look for ideas on pomegranate sun catchers, to incorporate some more traditional fruits, colors and symbolism for Sukkot, but I couldn't find any. So, I thought, hey, I can do that.
Materials:
Red card stock or construction paper Scissors
Tissue paper, I got mine from World Market. ;)
Glue
String
A Stapler
Directions:
1) Use a small round object to trace a circle. The one I used was a glass tealight holder that was about 2 1/2 inches in diameter. It really can be any size though.
2) Add the little sepals to your circle, giving it the pomegranate shape.
3) Cut it out. Then fold your pomegranate in half and cut a smaller circle inside, leaving your paper to display the outline of a pomegranate.
4) Place a thin bead of glue on the edge of your pomegranate paper, and add your tissue paper. After the glue dries, cut off the remainder of the tissue paper. Staple some string to your sun catcher and hang it up in your sukkah!
You can also make many varieties of the craft I just explained. You can add another pomegranate outline to the back, so it looks "finished" on both sides. Or you can combine several pomegranate outlines together to make a 3D version.
Here 's my 8 year old son's sun catcher. Cute!
My husband even made one. He of course had to do a fancy, 3D one. It looks really nice.
All the sun catchers for our sukkah and one Mexican fighting mask!
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