More Easy Fun Lent Art

I scooped this idea for a paper crown of thorns from Catholic Inspired     , although I simplified the crown construction and added a cross. 

Essentially, it's braided strips of brown construction paper with the edges snipped to form "thorns."

We cut 6 half inch lengthwise strips from brown construction paper for each crown (we used the paper cutter).  Then we stapled the strips end to end to make 3 double length strips.

We stapled theses strips together at one end and then braided them.  Then we stapled them in a loop to form the crown. 

Next we snipped a short way into the edges to form thorns.  If you snip at a tiny angle, they form tiny thorns, larger angles give larger thorns up to about 45 degrees, after which they stop looking like thorns!

We next used the paper cutter to cut out strips of other colors to form a cross. For simplicity, I cut one lengthwise 1 1/2" strip, then one cross wise 1 1/2" strip.

We either stapled or taped on the crown of thorns, and we were done!

Zorg decided to use his crown to decorate the sacrifice bean jar!