Confession: I don’t believe in praying that God would arrange the world around my private needs, but at times my philosophies and prayers fly mingled out the car window. (You wouldn’t think that the car window would be open in February, but I assure you that at times it is. It’s better than the resident odors.)
I kept praying on the way to Valu Home Center at 5:15 on a Saturday night. Please Lord, help them to be open.
They were open. I couldn’t believe it.
And I bought the supplies I needed for a craft in Sunday school next morning. I tire of paper crafts. I wanted a strong, realistic way to put Jesus’ death into my children’s hands. I found this one last minute at daniellesplace.com, along with a second Easter idea I’ll show you next Sunday.
You need only two supplies:
3″ masonry nails
lightweight wire
The rest is pretty self-explanatory. I’ll just note that offsetting the two upright nails will compensate for the equal width of the crossbeam.
What else would you suggest for this cross? Uses? Improvements?
I love this idea.
oh. bummer. Looks like Josh missed out on a great project!!!
I love this idea too…wouldn’t hurt to carry one around as a reminder, especially during this season of Lent. Thanks for sharing…also superb job on wrapping the line around it. 🙂
I noticed that neat, neat wire wrapping, too! 🙂
This is awesome.
Years ago my brother saw these being sold as necklaces by CBD, so he made some and all of my family’s vehicles had them hanging from their rear view mirrors (makes me want one for my car now).
He also made ones out of teeny tiny nails and gave my sisters homemade earrings for Christmas. When they opened the little packages, they cried.
At any rate, this is awesome.
I saw the littles at church walking around with these and that’s exactly what I thought.
Awesome.
Zachary would love this project. He is fixated on the crucifixion story and lots of his artwork involves nails or a cross. The picture of the rough cross next to the graceful tulips tells the story on its own.