An Easter Symbol: The Cross

https://www.quotemaster.org/Cross?page=2

Crosses are such a symbol of love.

The cross is a bridge to God’s forgiveness, and we have been invited to freely walk across it.

Seeing one gives me a feeling of peace and of being “home”.

Clothes Pin Crosses

When we lived in Russell ON, my kids made these crosses at school as an Easter craft.

I liked them so much that I have kept them in my Easter decorations.

The clothes pin halves were glued onto pieces of construction paper and then the clothes pins for Jesus glued on top of them.

I decided to experiment and make one of my own.

I removed all the metal springs from 15 clothes pins.

I glued each pair back together using hot glue.

If I made another, I think I would take the time and use wood glue and small clamps.

After each pair was glued together I proceeded to piece the cross together gluing as I went.

Lastly, I used my burner to burn all the edges.

Colouring Page Cross

Chris gave me a few adult colouring books this past Christmas. At first glance, I thought to myself, “He must think I am REALLY bored”. Then I started looking through them and I realized that his intention was for me to burn some of the pages onto wood and add paint to them after. This cross is the first colouring page I have tried to burn. I added a few lines here and there so I could get the darker cross in the middle. I used a scrap piece of wood that Chris had brought home one day from helping a friend who chainsaw mills logs for mantels.