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Show f un For Your Family By MISS ABBIE CONDIT National Recreation Association. The coming of fall brings visions of jolly fireside parties with much apple roasting and corn popping. This is a favorite season with party planners for any experienced hostess host-ess knows that autumn woods and gardens hold many ideas for party favors and decorations. Take, for instance, the humble acorn. With the help of screw eyes and imitation leaves, acorns can be made into festive boutonniere-fa-vors. Work the screw eyes into the tops of two or three acorns and run a cord or leather thong through the eyes. Then cut the outline of two leaves from green leather or cloth and pierce a hole near the bases of the leaves. Tie leaves and acorns together with a cord or thong and attach a safety pin to the back of this trim little boutonniere. The acorns may be shellacked, enameled, enam-eled, or left in their natural state. Using screw eyes and cord in much the same manner acorns can be strung into bracelets and necklaces or combined with leaves and pine cones into decorative garlands. Corn also comes in handy for Indian In-dian Summer parties. Corn grain "name" bracelets make useful favors fa-vors which can be strung out on the refreshment table as place cards. Soak dry kernels of corn overnight to make them soft enough for stringing with a darning needle. Knot a length of cord and run it through one kernel for each letter of the person's name, include one extra kernel for the fastener. Make a loop of the cord after the last kernel, and run the cord back through the kernels to the .original knot. Make the end loop large enough to fasten securely over the last or "fastener" kernel. You may paint the letters with tempera paint or glue cut-out paper letters to the corn kernels. One coat of shellac and your favor is finished! All the family will enjoy helping you make popcorn decorations and favors, especially if you provide an extra bowl just for eating! Garlands Gar-lands and festoons are easily made by stringing the popcorn on heavy thread and then twisting or braiding braid-ing the long strings together. For a bracelet or necklace, string the corn on thread and dip into brightly colored col-ored enamel. Restring when the colored col-ored corn is dry. For a vari-colored necklace, two strings of different colored popcorn may be twisted together, to-gether, or two different colors used on the same thread. Hooks and eyes or regular jewelry clasps will complete com-plete your popcorn finery. The burdock, famous for its "sticking" ways, is another favorite material in party craft. Animal and doll figures are easily invented by sticking the burrs together and decorating dec-orating with bits of ribbon, cloth, or paper. Tiny burdock baskets lined with milKweed cotton make excellent excel-lent fruit and candy cups. With a little ingenuity you will discover many other uses for the products of nearby woods and fields. Pine cones, small gourds, ears of corn, sycamore balls, teasel weeds, milkweed pods, and many other plants and pods can be enameled or shellacked into beautiful decorations. decora-tions. But don't save these holiday features just for party days. Use them at any time to give your home a bit of autumn flavor. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |
