Crafts for Palm Sunday

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
...making progress...(really, it's all about weaving the palm fronds)
...attracting an appreciative audience...
...putting on the finishing touches...
*"Look! Mine's done!!"*

Our Sunday School prepares palm crosses for the parishioners -- here's our Sunday School director (and her daughter) distributing them at Coffee Hour...
...making a palm cross into jewelry...
Palm crosses come in many shapes
...here, the Palm Sunday acolytes, who didn't get a chance to help make crosses this year, receive theirs.
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.
Starting out with two fronds...she's making a slit in one palm frond.	She's made the slit in the palm frond, and is taking the end of the other frond through it.	Here, she's making loops on either side of the frond she originally slit.	Closing up the loops in the center -- these will be the arms of the Cross.
Now, back to the original frond....	Repeating the process with this frond, leaving one end longer than the other.	Finished product!	You can make the slit with a thumbnail instead of with scissors....
A few more illustrations of the process	...		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!

See our current calendar for what's happening at Trinity Lime Rock right now!

Palm Sunday Crafts....

The process of making Palm Crosses.