...to you and yours from me and mine! I hope you all have a fun, safe day celebrating this beautiful time of year. I just wanted to share with you a quick (to prep, at least) craft you can show your little ones and create with the older ones if you have a little down time today.
Apple Shrunken Heads! Yeah, this is about as scary as it gets around here. In fact, mine just turned out looking like a cheerful elderly lady!
Basically, you peel the area you want for your face, then peel a small hole on the back side for excess fluid to escape. With a small knife, etch out a simple face (hollow eyes, leave the nose the brows and nose highest, make the mouth wide or just a line) Don't forget to scratch in a few of the deep wrinkles! I only did a few on the forehead and at the corners of the eyes.
Then pop them in the oven at a low temp until they have reached sufficient shrunkeness! I did 275 for about 3 hours.
After they have cooled enough, you can take two apple seeds from another apple and push them in by their points for the eyes. Then just set about as décor!
Happy creating!
These are amazing - I love how wrinkled and beautifully detailed they are! Thanks for sharing a link to my post, as well. I'd be afraid to float yours because I wouldn't want them to soak up the liquid and lose their perfection.
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