You'll need:
Walnut shells from cracking walnuts and digging out the nuts.
Beeswax for modeling in any color (see my color suggestions below).
Glitter with stars and/or small beads.
Warm small squares of wax in your hands or near a heater/ radiator (my boys put them in thier...clean...armpits). Cover the walnut shell with a thin layer of wax. Take another peice of wax and make a turtle body with a head sticking out, legs and a tail (legs are optional really). Use the star glitter to cover the shell, pressing gently, or place beads into the shell wax in a lovely design. Use very small beads for turtle eyes if you want to.
We are using blue wax with silver star glitter for lovely midnight magic turtles, white with silver star glitter and red beads for fancy christmas looking turtles, and red and green wax with multicolored beads and glitter, too.
My boys are having a blast making these! some of them have tiny little wax baby turtles riding on thier backs...so sweet!
Walnut shells from cracking walnuts and digging out the nuts.
Beeswax for modeling in any color (see my color suggestions below).
Glitter with stars and/or small beads.
Warm small squares of wax in your hands or near a heater/ radiator (my boys put them in thier...clean...armpits). Cover the walnut shell with a thin layer of wax. Take another peice of wax and make a turtle body with a head sticking out, legs and a tail (legs are optional really). Use the star glitter to cover the shell, pressing gently, or place beads into the shell wax in a lovely design. Use very small beads for turtle eyes if you want to.
We are using blue wax with silver star glitter for lovely midnight magic turtles, white with silver star glitter and red beads for fancy christmas looking turtles, and red and green wax with multicolored beads and glitter, too.
My boys are having a blast making these! some of them have tiny little wax baby turtles riding on thier backs...so sweet!
