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Center Pieces for Special Events
This page for now has
pictures of mostly Jewish center pieces but most of these crafts and be adapted
for any event.
Challah CoversCloth Covers used to cover the Challah or Jewish braided bread
traditionaly used for Friday nights and other special nights. The bread is
covered to keep it "special" until time to say the blessing over the bread.
As part of my son's Bar Mitzvah training he did some
volunteer work.
Helped the homeless, volunteered at a Youth Lounge with
younger children. We worked together to make 24 different challah covers to
donate to our Temple to use one on each table. We used the fabric pen
blopens.
He used their foot pump to so he would not get sick from all of the
blowing!
After about 10 his foot was tired! Blo Pens sets come in different
colors but only in plain colors for Fabric.
We added glitter fabric paint to
make it fancier. We had a stencil with religious objects we used with the
blo pens. We were surpised how dark and therefore how much paint we used on
the first few of them.
We ended up using less paint and less objects as time
went on.
AGE:
Child to Adult
Materials:
Blo PensBlo Pens Foot Pump ( a must for big projects and if
more than one person wants to use the pens.)Cloth
Hankerchiefs (We found some with a letter embrodered so we picked R for Rodef
Sholom Temple)Religious Stencil (offered at the Israel Book Store and
1-800-Dreidel.com links to both places are on my my Jewish Resources Pages.Glitter or
other three dimensional Fabric paint.Electric Iron to set the
paint.Wash the cloth hankerchief. This takes out chemicals that can
effect the paint. Iron if needed. Follow package instructions for the blow
pens. Use lightly as the paint will run out if you are making a lot of cloths.
After paint dries iron just the stencils to make them permanent.
Accent with fabric glitter or other three dimensional
paint.
Examples:             
Center Pieces and Decorations. 
Bar Mitzah or Jewish
picks I found at 1-800-dreidel.com.
Center Pieces For Special OccasionsFor the family
party after my son's Bar Mitzvah we made our own center pieces.We used single
vases for the small table and a triple vase for the head table.  All of the vases were made with a thin layer of
White Bulk Style Sculpey. Three vases were fused together using clay wedges that
were then covered with canes.
  We made 14 different vases using lots of blues.
We mixed the canes up on some and used all the same on others. We used
satin glaze with a little metallic gold powder mixed in.
Make your
own Jewish Centerpieces.
One of the same vases with a Jewish Plastic
stemed Star of David. (Called a star pick) Got it at 1-800-dreidel.com. See my
Jewish resource page for more info.
See my
clay page for more
clay ideas and lessons on how to make canes. Plus see my See My Recycle Clay Bottles Pages for full
directions on making these vases.
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