Octoberfest Make'N'Take!

Today was Octoberfest in Lafayette! It's the second year for this festival, and it's also my second year doing a fall themed make'n'take craft at the shop.

Last year we made baby jack-o-lanerns out of oranges, one of the projects in the FABULOUS book Making Stuff - an Alternative Craft Book. They were super cute, and also a super fiasco. Make'n'take needs to be quick, and fairly un-messy, and it took between ten and twenty minutes to hollow out an orange.

This year, I found a great tutorial for making paper pumpkin ornaments. We cut paper for thirty of them last night, but when I did a trial run, it looked like an onion! With a few quick adjustments, suggested by Betsy, we were on our way.

We went through the entire first set of thirty ornaments in three hours! I cut out twenty-four more pumpkins, and we used all but the last couple. It was a really great day, and for just the second year, it was a really great festival!

Here's an action shot of my last group of little crafters. I really think we went from total failure to zen master in one year on the fall make'n'take.
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