Phippsburg pupils feeling crafty

PHIPPSBURG

The Phippsburg Elementary School Garden Club is joining other crafters at the Phippsburg Scholarship Crafts Fair on Saturday Dec.1 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the school.

Garden Club students, parents and advisers are busy creating unique, useful gifts for the holidays and next year’s gardens. Throughout this process, the kids are learning the value of hard work, cooperation, focus and retail sales. Their profits go back into their gardens at the school and field trips.

Last spring, a small bridge was built over a pond in the “A-Mazing P.E.S. Kids’ Garden.” Seeds and tools were also purchased.

AT LEFT, BENJAMIN BREWER applies a clamp after gluing the leg of an old chair he’ll later prime and paint while, at right, Maia Chabot applies undercoating to her chair to bond and prime it before applying the first color coat in preparation for The Phippsburg Scholarship Crafts Fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, at the school. Garden Club students, parents and advisers are busy creating unique, useful gifts for the holidays and next year's gardens. Throughout the process, the kids are learning the value of hard work, cooperation, focus and retail sales. — AT LEFT, BENJAMIN BREWER applies a clamp after gluing the leg of an old chair he’ll later prime and paint while, at right, Maia Chabot applies undercoating to her chair to bond and prime it before applying the first color coat in preparation for The Phippsburg Scholarship Crafts Fair, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, at the school. Garden Club students, parents and advisers are busy creating unique, useful gifts for the holidays and next year’s gardens. Throughout the process, the kids are learning the value of hard work, cooperation, focus and retail sales.

In 2013, the kids hope to build a “Hobbit House,” which will house tools and gardening equipment.

New crafts this year include hand-painted “crafts chairs” and colorful plant markers. Both will be suitable for outdoors; the chairs as plant holders or sculptural garden accents.

For stocking stuffers there are seeds — in packets — collected from the school gardens and EdgeWater Farm: giant sunflowers, sweet William, lupins, liatris, blackeyed Susans, calendulas, hollyhocks and more. There will be house plants, too.

Back by popular demand are pinecone angels, decorated glass balls, popcorn and cranberry garlands, wreaths and birch log candle holders.

The crafts fair has lunch and bakery items for sale, including the Wells Family’s famous lobster stew, which disappears in minutes.

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