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How to make a Gods Eye

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gods eyesHow to make a Gods Eye: So my church summer did a art camp where they work on a play and do a complete performance in a week.  It is a great to see.  Think summer stock for church.   I was in charge of teaching a art segment and since the play was from the 1970’s I decided to make a craft that I did when I was a Kid Gods Eyes.

When I taught the class the kids ranged from 4- 12 years.  The kids 4-7 needed a little help.  The older kids need help to knot off but after being shown they complete the Gods eye on there own.

When I was a kid I used sticks I would find in the yard,  since I had 30 kids for my class- I went to the Asia market and purchased chop sticks:

How to a make Gods Eyesgods eye

Supplies:

  • Yarn ends various colors
  • Chop Sticks

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  1. Make the yarn in to small yarn balls so easy to manageyarn
  2. Then take the chop sticks and start wrapping the yarn, with the sticks parallelchop sticks chop stitck knots
  3. Then split the chop sticks into an X and wrap the yarn to stabilize the Xchop sticks with yarn
  4. Then reverse the yarn  and wrap the yarnchop sticks with yarn
  5. Then start move the yarn around the chop sticks – wrap yarn around the chopstickchop sticks with yarn gods_eye_013_001-25
  6. Under and around one then to the next chop stickchop sticks with yarn
  7. Then over the top and around the next  gods_eye_013_001-27
  8. Repeat under and wrap around and over and wrap, moving from one chop stick to the next.chop sticks with yarn
  9. Then switch colors tieing a knot tie a knot tie a knot tie a knot tie a knot tie a knot yarn and chop sticks
  10. Wrap to the switching the colorsgods eye
  11. Then once you are done knot off the yarn gods eyegods eye
  12. Create a loop to hang with by knotting to the center. gods eye gods_eye_013_001-41

This is a fun craft the kids will love.  Every kid in my class asked to make more and xtra supplies to make at home.gods eyes

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8 thoughts on “How to make a Gods Eye”

    1. Heather I was going to use Popsicle sticks but I wanted them bigger for little hands. I just happen to have the chopstick in the house so I loved the idea because they come 2 to a individual pack and 100 pairs for $6/ can beat it. Chop sticks are so great for so many craft projects you can also Knit with them. (sharpen the point with a pencil sharpener)

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