More Lion Around… :)

Lions are ready for inspection…

Some trimming, some re-gluing, some need surgery, some need eye replacements…. and a few more need to be made...

Shannon & Amy...

Shannon & Amy are helping me make sure that we have lots of nice little puppets to send to Ukraine for the orphans…

Roxy

Joining us was Roxy, she was working on costumes for the skit that will be done for the orphans - Daniel & the Lion's Den…

A fun time crafting with these very sweet ladies!!

Preparing for Inspection...

All these lions… packed up and brought home… now they need to be unpacked, dried, and looked over...

Ready to be unpacked...

More ready to be unpacked….

Need to be checked… Oops, we have some tilted heads!

Some of the Lions (there are >250)

Some More of the Lions...

Lots of Happy Smiling Lions!!

Lotsa Lotsa Lions!!!

Wow!!

A group of about 25 of us got together this week to trace, cut, glue, and superglue Lion Finger Puppets… here are some pics:

Supergluing Google-Eyes to Faces.

This wonderful group of volunteers came together to assemble these fun little puppets in support of a group that will be traveling to Ukraine & visiting several orphanages.

Our prayer is that the young people who receive these little puppets would get joy from them.

Cutting out Bodies & Manes.

More Cutting.

And even more Cutting.

Gluing together the Puppets.

More Gluing.

And even more Gluing.

And even a special helper who was in town
from Wisconsin visiting her daughters.

A Good Rainy Day Activity

I am still helping with the craft project for the little Lion Finger Puppets, this week we've had a bit of rain so I worked on getting some faces painted - the one part that needs to be done in advance before a group of us gets together to put together 250 of these… yes 250… they'll have to be packed to take to Ukraine, so I guess its a good thing they're small & lightweight…

I'm getting some other prep work done as well, a team of around 20 people will be working on these… lots of bright colors as well as some traditional colors…

Daniel's other 3 friends...

Daniel didn't just have friends that survived the fiery furnace, he had some other friends as well… friends of the feline persuasion… that's right, the Lions, the ones that didn't eat him… Ok, to the purists I'll say "I know the lions weren't his friends, not sweet & happy felines"… But kids will appreciate these happy little lions, smiling because they're not hungry & have someone nice like Daniel to pet them…

I was asked to come up with a small, portable, inexpensive, and easy to assemble craft project… a craft that would be given to orphans in Ukraine… The group that's traveling over is planning on doing skits of Daniel & the Lion's Den for a few orphanages, and wanted small gifts to be given to the children… this is what I came up with…

I started with some simple & inexpensive items: felt, non-toxic glue, fabric paint, google-eyes…  Grabbed a few things I had lying around the house: scissors, sharpie, cookie cutter, lids, toothpicks… 


I picked some bright colors for the first lion, a purple body, green mane, orange eyes…

I got the body shape from the oval shaped lid, the mane shape from the cookie cutter, and the face & belly shape from the small round lid.  I used the sharpie to trace the shapes, then cut them out… a little glue, some fabric paint, and voila!!


For the second lion I picked colors that are popular in Ukraine (from their flag), a bright blue body & yellow mane, and then I gave it green eyes.

For the final lion I decided to stick with more traditional colors, a brown body & orange mane, and I gave him blue eyes.