Materials

• Contact Paper
• Bright Tissue Paper
• Ribbon
• Sticky Tape
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Start off by tearing bright tissue paper into strips. You can make the paper strips as thick or thin as you like.
2. Next, cut out two rectangles of contact paper the same size. You’ll cut these into egg shapes later so they can be any size you like
3. Lay the tissue paper strips across the contact paper rectangle. You can cover the whole area, leave gaps and overlap the colours too. There’s no right or wrong way to do it and each egg suncatcher will be different.
4. Once your coloured strips are in place, stick the second piece of contact paper over the top of the tissue paper to secure it. Then using a pencil draw on an egg shape and cut it out.
5. Finally snip a bit of ribbon and use sticky tape to fix it to the top of the egg. Now your Easter egg suncatchers are ready for hanging up on display

Ingredients and Equipment

• ¼ cup salt
• ½ cup flour
• ¼ cup water
• bowl
• baking paper
• ½ cup pea gravel

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.

2. Mix flour, salt, and water together in a bowl. If the dough is too sticky add small amounts of flour until it is doughy and pliable. Be careful not to add too much as the dough will dry out and your creation will crack.

3. Shape a piece of the dough into a ball in your hands. Place the ball on the baking paper and flatten to about ½″ thickness.

4. Carefully select pieces of pea gravel to spell out “DAD ROCKS”. Press them firmly but gently into the salt dough.

5. Bake your paperweight for 2-2.5 hours until completely dry.

6. Remove from oven and allow to cool before handling or removing from baking paper.

7. Optional: You can spray your creation with acrylic sealer or paint it with a clear coat sealer.

Bear ye one another’s burdens
Thus the Saviour’s Law fulfil;
Jesus trod this very pathway
And you too must tread it still.
Sharing other people’s sorrows
Soothing other people’s smarts;
Lifting loads from weaker shoulders
Healing wounded, broken hearts.

Bear ye one another’s burdens
Self forgetting every day
Thinking what to ease another
We can do, or we can say.
Cheering sometimes by our presence
Those who seem a friend to need,
By some little self-denial,
We may prove a friend indeed

But I have so many worries
Burdens of my own to bear
How can I another’s carry?
How can I another’s share?
All my time is fully taken
Bearing burdens of my own.
How can I then help a comrade?
Every man must stand alone.

Bear ye one another’s burdens
Help some other on the road
And you’ll find your own heart lightened
And forget your own hard load.
For the heart can ne’er be heavy
If it cheer one heavier still
Bear ye one another’s burdens
So the law of Christ fulfil.

Lyrics by Fairelie Thornton (aka Florence Rudge)

First published in a book named “Love” by Fairelie Thornton in 1922.

Earliest record of it being sung in Australia was in 1945 in the Grafton Diocese.
It has been sung to the tunes of:

• “Praise My Soul the King of Heaven”
• “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken”
• “Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow”
• In recent times it is usually sung to the music of “The Carnival is Over” written by Tom Springfield and was based on a Russian folk song from circa 1883.

It’s a good time to get acquainted
It’s a good time to know
Who is sitting close beside you
So smile and say hello “Hello”
Goodbye lonesome feeling
Farewell glassy stare
Here’s my hand my name is ______________ (you can say your name here)
Put your hand out, right there.

Actions:
Cross hands and hold the hand of the person beside you. Repeat song and move hands up and down in time to the music.

(Sung to the tune of “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary”)