baggetta Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 Here's a fun project if you have little kids around (maybe even for yourself). This is a flower that can be slowly put together as Spring approaches. This year (2020) Spring starts on March 19. So if you want to raise anticipation for this great day, you can have your child put one piece of the puzzle together each day. There are 10 pieces so this year you would start on March 10. You could start with any of the flower petals or the leaves. Your choice. On the 19th you should have a completed potted flower. The flower disassembles (even the base) for packing away for next year. I cut mine from 3/4" pine and the base from poplar. I didn't paint it, but it might be a stunning piece if painted different colors. Again, your choice. To get the pot to stand up on the base I put a 1/4" dowel in the base sticking up about an inch and drilled a 1/4" hole in the bottom of the pot. Hey! Maybe this could start a new tradition -- A Count Up To SPRING!! Download the Free pattern from my Free Page jollyred, Scrappile, frankorona and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveww1 Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldhudson Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 I like it, but I'd be happy just to see the snow melt. Wilson142 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonkort Posted March 5, 2020 Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 I love your pattern!! My grandson wants to make things every time he comes out. lol and he bugs his parents to let him come to grandmas house for the weekend all the time because grandma does crafts with him!!! Now my youngest child is like 35 so I really don't have or can't find the really easy scroll saw patterns I use to have. This will be the perfect project for his next visit. Connor is 7 so I cut everything out, but he traces the pattern to tracing paper then traces the pattern onto the wood. I cut it and hes excited about his next project because grandma said he could use the electric sander. lol In Connors words sanding isn't fun. until now hes had to sand by hand. so thank you much bagetta . next time he comes out we'll make this and i'll take a picture of the finished project and put it up!!! amazingkevin and baggetta 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baggetta Posted March 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2020 3 hours ago, Dragonkort said: I love your pattern!! My grandson wants to make things every time he comes out. lol and he bugs his parents to let him come to grandmas house for the weekend all the time because grandma does crafts with him!!! Now my youngest child is like 35 so I really don't have or can't find the really easy scroll saw patterns I use to have. This will be the perfect project for his next visit. Connor is 7 so I cut everything out, but he traces the pattern to tracing paper then traces the pattern onto the wood. I cut it and hes excited about his next project because grandma said he could use the electric sander. lol In Connors words sanding isn't fun. until now hes had to sand by hand. so thank you much bagetta . next time he comes out we'll make this and i'll take a picture of the finished project and put it up!!! Please do. I'd love to see it. Great to be able to work with kids. amazingkevin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazingkevin Posted March 6, 2020 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Keep it simple fits on any shelf. Edited March 6, 2020 by amazingkevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonkort Posted March 6, 2020 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 right now amazingkevin with connor ( grandson) we do the simple things. lol his first project was to paint a wooden car envelop opener I had in my not finished crafts.( I hope im not the only one with a box or two of unfinished crafts just sitting there waiting to be done. lol the I found him a simple cut out to trace and put on the wood. after I cut it out and did most of the sanding with my sander I gave him some sandpaper and him finish sanding it. thennow he got to paint it. the last time he was here he found an old barn I had started making at one time or another but it didn't come out quite right so it was in my wood stash. when he asked if he could have it.....well whats a grandma to do...lol I had him trace some animals and a boy and girl and then while I was cutting that out he painted the barn. lol you would have thought id giving him a real horse or something. lol he played with it all the next day. lol oh and how proud he was when he showed it to daddy. lol now I haven't felt that good since my kids were little and we did the same kinds of things lol Thank God for grandchildren.lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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