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Lakeville, CT  06039
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The Rev. Heidi Truax, Rector



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Palm Sunday Crafts....

Wherever you go in the Episcopal Church you'll find that there are some traditional Sunday School crafts.  Palm Sunday crafts are notable in this category.  Here are a few pictures, courtesy of our Sunday School,  of palm crosses and palm crowns being created at Trinity Lime Rock.

(please click on the small pictures to see larger versions -- we've got some newer pictures of the process of making Palm Crosses, too -- scroll down the page to see them)

Starting a project...a Palm Crown in this case

Lizzie Cuoco begins her palm crown

...making progress...(really, it's all about weaving the palm fronds)

Lizzie braiding palm fronds

...attracting an appreciative audience...

Lizzie attracts an appreciative audience

...putting on the finishing touches...

Lizzie finishing up

"Look!  Mine's done!!"

Rachel's done with hers!

How about Palm Crosses?

Our Sunday School prepares palm crosses for the parishioners -- here's our Sunday School director (and her daughter) distributing them at Coffee Hour...

Sunday School director and palm crosses

...making a palm cross into jewelry...

Cammie and her palm cross

Palm crosses come in many shapes

A differently shaped palm cross

...here, the Palm Sunday acolytes, who didn't get a chance to help make crosses this year, receive theirs.

  Hilly and Olivia at Palm Sunday Coffee Hour   

The process of making Palm Crosses. 

Every year people come to our website looking for information about the fine points of Palm Cross making.  We hope the pictures below will help.  Click on any of the pictures for a larger image.

Palm cross making

Starting out with two fronds...she's making a slit in one palm frond.

Palm cross making

She's made the slit in the palm frond, and is taking the end of the other frond through it.

Palm cross making

Here, she's making loops on either side of the frond she originally slit.

Palm cross making

Closing up the loops in the center -- these will be the arms of the Cross.

Palm cross making

Now, back to the original frond....

Palm cross making

Repeating the process with this frond, leaving one end longer than the other.

There!  A completed palm cross!

Finished product!

Making palm crosses in another group

You can make the slit with a thumbnail instead of with scissors....

Hard at work

A few more illustrations of the process

Coming along pretty well with this palm cross... Nearly done! Click on any of these pictures for a larger image
Did you know that you can also make Palm Crosses from a single palm frond, without cutting a slit?  The trick here is to bend the frond at a 45 degree angle to make the cross arm, and then to wrap the remaining frond diagonally to reinforce the junction.  We'll see if we can get a demonstration of this approach photographed this year!

Thank you to our Sunday School kids!!

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