Hi friends,
We’re sharing our corn of the cob craft, which resembles ornamental corn known for its beautiful color combos.
We kept ours simple with yellow hues, but you can make yours with blue, orange, purple, or brown paper and then add colorful kernels with various colored pencils. Get the details for our first fall craft below.
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What You'll Need
Construction Paper: (1) Light Green, (1)Dark Green, (1) Yellow or other color.
Scissors
Colored Pencils
Pencil
Glue
The Steps
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CORN
Turn your colored paper of choice(yellow) horizontally and fold into fourths. Each fourth makes 1 corn.
With a coordinating color, draw a long corn, including a narrow top and wider bottom.
Using colored pencils, draw different kernels.
HUSK
Turn your green papers horizontally, fold them into thirds, and cut out the sections.
Take 1 section from each color, and draw a wide V and rounded leaves meeting at the stem. You may draw individual leaves as well.
a) Repeat this with the other green section or cut and trace the husk onto the 2nd section.
ASSEMBLE
Glue the lighter husk to the front of the corn and the darker husk/leaves to the back.
That’s it!
STORYTIME
When I was about 15/16 years old, a family friend offered my sister and I an easy summer job, that her kids would also be working. We were so excited to make some summer cash, so why not? It involved LOTS and LOTS of beautiful ornamental corn that needed to be opened, husks folded back, and rubberbanded at the top x a BAJILION lol. Corn would get dropped off in the morning and her children would come over for hours to hang out, talk, laugh, and work together.
We worked in the hot garage, sweated buckets, made memories, and learned a big lesson, large amounts of cash would not be made at ten cents (.10) a corn lol.
Happy crafting
Amanda and Naomi
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