Things To Do With Walnut Shells
The Dollar Nut
Carefully clean out the inside.
Place a folded up dollar bill inside and glue the shells back together. Glue a string loop at the top and hang them on the tree.
contributed by Bev Forsling
Make a Walnut Ship
by filling half a walnut shell with molten wax, then setting three masts made of tooth picks and a front spar also a toothpick. Use the round ones, then, use thread and glue to make cross spars on the masts. Use thread to string together rigging on the masts, and small swatches of white cloth or paper to make the sails. Glue these on the spars, and use thread from the bottom corners of the sheet to the sides of the gunwales, You can also add small flags to the masts these make great Christmas tree ornaments
Contributed by John Thompson
Make a Jack O Lantern
Sand the fat end of the whole walnut so it will stand on end without tipping paint orange, and add a yellow face and eyes, nose, mouth. Add a short stick from a stem, with a couple of leaves and two pieces of thin green wire. Makes a great Halloween decoration
Contributed by John Thompson
Walnut Strawberries
Paint the shole walnut red and randomly glue on tiny pearls for seeds, then cut a green felt strawberry leaf top and attached a hanger.
Make a Mouse
Take half a walnut shell and place flat side down. Take tow pistachio nut shell halves and glue them, pointy standing up, near the pointed end of the walnut half for ears. Glue on two ot those tiny gooogy eyes, and pipe cleaner tail and some whiskers made of fishing line and put a black dot a t the very pointed end of the walnut shell and you have a little mouse. These can be used as ornaments or blued on packages just for fun and you can use the nutmeats for candy making
Contributed by Jean Lexington
Racing Mice
You can take Jean's idea one step further, if youplace a marble in the hole at the bottom of the mouse and blue a piece of fabric not felt over the bottom you cna race your mice. Place them on a table and flick them with your fingers
contributed by Angi Hathaway
Tiny Knitting Baskets
For a cute Christmas ornament that looks like a knitting basket use half a walnut shell, position a length of yarn in the bottom of a walnut shell and glue for a hanger. Wind up little balls of yarn and glue to the shell and on top of the yarn hanger. Stick a couple ball heads pins for knitting needles. you ca also fill with a pinked square of fabric and fill with tiny pine cones. Use a ribbon for the hanger
Contributed by Nancy Worrell of Nancy Worrell Designs
Walnut Mouse Bed
make the mice faces from little frey poms with felt ears and bead eyes and noses. Fill the walnut shell with some polyfil and cover with a little piece of fabric for a blanket. Let the faces poke out from the blanket and cut little felt tails to glue just under the other end of blanket. Attach a hanger. or you could make pom bears instead of mice
contributed by Shirley of the Craftmall USA
Walnut Treasure Chest
Walnut Granny Doll
Walnut Pink Flamingo
Walnut Treasure Nuts
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