"Witch" Crafts

Witches' Broom

This is another that you can change with the seasons. A simple small broom that you can pick up from any craft store, and by adding seasonal flowers, fruits, berries, and some odds and ends you can have a decorative piece that will last. You can even apply this to your Besom.

ITEMS YOU WILL NEED:

1: Small broom, about 1' by 8"
2-4: Plastic seasonal flowers. For Yule: Holly, Mistletoe, Evergreens, Pine Cones etc. Berries or fruit: Oranges, Black Berries, Gourds etc.
1: Of 3 different colours of ribbon, about 12"-16" long. For Yule: Red, Green, and Gold.
Some thin (non-lead) wire, or you can strip garbage bag twist-ties of thier paper coats.
1: Ornament oriented to the sabbat. For Yule: In Celtic tradition Yule was a Sabbat that was added later, so you can add something like a sun ornament to honour  the    returning of the sun, a unlit red candle. If it were for Litha I would add a small spear or sun.
Wire Cutters, Scissors and some glue should you need it.

DIRECTIONS:
Using the wire cutters cut down the flower stems to a workable height.  Using the wire, begin tieing in the seasonal flowers and berries at the base of the broom where the bristles begin. Manipulate the leaves of the flowers to lie flat against the bristles. This will give a good background for the colour of the flowers to show.

Lay your berries and or fruits in between the flowers and tie off with wire. Once you have all the foliage in, wire in the sabbat ornament of your choice.

To hide the wire tie the ribbon in a bow or whatever knot you prefer and let some of the excess drape around and under the the piece.

TO HANG:
String a bit of wire through the top of the handle and hang on a nail in the door. If you prefer to hang your broom bristles up, then weave the wire through some of the bristles and really twist for strength. If you are hanging this on the front door, it's going to get a lot of traffic by it, so make sure it is secured well. For Eostre (Ostara, Spring Equinox etc.) I hung an egg in the centre and it didn't fall off once, even though it had to face big guys carrying large musical equipment in and out.