Instructors: Naga, Ruth Nier, Jo, and Melissa Darnell 

This week we're having a "spring blow-out" of garden related goodies, including a secret garden setting, the much-requested tree trunk house (or treehouse), tissue rose arrangements by Naga, Ruth Nier's popular potting soil bags, and a neat potted palm tree by Jo, plus a long list of other plants, flowers, gardening tools, and more to fill up your garden setting or tree trunk house!  Get ready, this week is gonna be BUSY!

Lesson #1: Secret Garden Setting

Materials/Tools Needed:

• 2 sheets of foam core board (styrofoam sandwiched between two sheets of posterboard)

• 1 sheet of plain styrofoam (like the kind found packed within boxes for appliances - check your local appliance store to see if they have some to be discarded)

• terra cotta or brick red colored acrylic paint and paintbrush 

• white or gray acrylic paint and paintbrush with tiny tip (for painting the lines between the bricks)

• sharp craft knife 

• white/school glue 

• gray and white polymer clay 

• hot glue gun and low temperature glue sticks 

• grass paper (available at train and hobby shops) 

• empty soda can and tin snips (for creating a wrought iron gate; could also use brown colored polymer clay instead to create a wooden gate)

• unused coffee grounds 

• toothpicks

Wednesday's Lesson #2: Tree Trunk House

Materials/Tools Needed:

• empty gallon sized ice cream container (for 1/12th scale house; use one quart sized ice cream container for 1/2 and 1/4th scale houses, or a bathroom sized Dixie paper cup for 144th scale house)

• 1 sheet of foam core board 

• hot glue gun and low temperature glue sticks 

• black and white newspaper (no color printed pages) 

• flour 

• water 

• extra gallon sized ice cream container to mix in 

• cinnamon oil (to prevent mold) 

• gesso or clear acrylic seal 

• acrylic paints in shades of gray, black, and brown 

• real sized silk leaves 

• grass paper (available at hobby/train model shops) 

• rubber gloves for your hands

Thursday's Lesson #3: Flowers and Plants

Materials/Tools Needed:

• 2 inch masking tape 

• 20 gauge wire 

• green paint 

• scissors

Materials/Tools Needed:

• Mini pots/bottle caps or make your own pots with white fimo/paperclay 

• Mini dried green leaves or moss 

• Any dried violet coloured flowers 

• Pink coloured tissue / toilet rolls/ crepe paper (use any other desired colour if preferred)

• Thread (pink preferably to match the tissue colour) 

• Clear drying glue 

• Stainless steel scrubber (used for washing utensils) 

• White acrylic paint (optional) 

• Fine point brush

Materials/Tools Needed:

• wire 

• colored pipe cleaners 

• strong scissors or wire cutters 

• white/school glue

Materials/Tools Needed:

• green or brown cotton string 

• white/school glue 

• parsley flakes (found in the spice section of any grocery store) 

• miniature pot 

• air-drying clay 

• small stick or twig from a real tree 

• small styrofoam ball

Materials/Tools Needed:

• wire 

• wire cutters or strong scissors 

• white/school glue 

• cocoa mix

• Toadstools

• Materials/Tools Needed:

• polymer clay in cream, beige, apricot, and red 

• white acrylic paint and cotton bud (also known as a Q-tip)

Friday's Lesson #4: Gardening Tools and Garden Accessories

Materials/Tools Needed:

• Label for bag

• Dime wrapper

• Tooth pick

• White glue - that dries clear

• Dried used coffee grounds (or tea leaves or soil)

• Black or brown permanent marker (I use a Sharpie)

Materials/Tools Needed:

• clear plastic straw 

• clear sequin 

• white/school glue 

• two or three toothpicks 

• small sewing needle 

• cigarette lighter or other small open flame source 

• rubber handled pliers (or something else to use to hold a hot wire with)

Materials/Tools Needed:

• small plastic eye dropper or plastic bottle 

• scissors 

• empty throat lozenge package or other similar package with small plastic bubbles on it

• barbecue skewer cut to 1 1/2" long 

• fine sandpaper 

• thin wire 

• acrylic paint in your choice of color for the finished watering can

Materials/Tools Needed:

• 2 lengths of barbecue skewers each cut to 4" long 

• 3 lengths of barbecue skewers each cut to 3/4" long 

• double-sided tape 

• silver foil (aluminum foil) 

• scissors 

• sandpaper 

• small drill 

• white/school glue 

• old toothbrush 

• sharp craft knife

Materials/Tools Needed:

• empty plastic 35 mm camera film canister 

• sharp craft knife 

• rubbing alcohol and cloth or tissue 

• brown acrylic paint and paintbrush 

• aluminum foil 

Materials/Tools Needed:

• large plastic cherub cake decoration (available in most department and craft stores) 

• large plastic wedding bell cake decoration 

• sharp craft knife or small saw 

• sandpaper 

• thick button to fit diameter of cherub base 

• thin button of about the same diameter 

• spray primer 

• hot glue gun and low temperature glue sticks 

• bronze paint and paintbrush 

• pale green acrylic paint

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