Making Your Own Crafts

The Salt Fork Arts and Crafts Festival is wrapping up a three-day run at Cambridge City Park.

There were plenty of people checking out tents full of odds and ends, but one tent, tucked in the back corner, was offering something different from the rest.

“It offers the opportunity for children and adults-of all ages-to be able to come in and learn different crafts, arts, and just have a hands-on opportunity to learn something new. Also, to take something away with them that they have made themselves, ” says Arts and Crafts Tent Director Wendy Lemon.

Parents could drop the kids off while they walked the rest of the festival, or they could join in on the fun.

Lemon says they were working on felt critters along with tool or window boxes. Some kids even got into the Hispanic culture by making pinatas or confetti eggs.

“The eggs are filled with confetti. The children take time to decorate them, paint them, put sparkles and glitter on, however they would like. Then they break them over their family members’ heads…and the confetti…it’s a celebration, ” says Lemon.

Lemon says she hopes the experience will allow kids and adults to work on their own projects so they can come back to the festival in a few years and have a tent of their own.