The Love Quilt Art Ritual
 
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An art ritual to celebrate and pray for family. Also a great ritual to perform all together as a family.
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Moon Phase: Any phase
Suggested Month: February
Supplies
  • canvas
  • glue
  • decorative paper
  • pieces of scrap fabric
  • watercolor pencils
  • white cardstock paper
  • old greeting cards
  • small items I collected that remind me of my family
  • images and words cut out from books and magazines
Directions
  1. Perform the opening steps to ritual - (ie. opening prayer, clearing, calling in, blessing, protection)
  2. Gather materials and collect any meaningful items you'd like to collage into your creation.
  3. Choose a piece of decorative paper to use as a sheet on your pretend paper bed and cut out one pillow for each member of your family and glue all of this to the canvas.
  4. On white card stock paper, draw a cartoon looking image for each member of the family. Color your image in.
  5. Choose decorative paper to use as shirts and cut and paste onto the drawings.
  6. Each each image's head to the pillows on the canvas and glue the rest of the body down ensuring that the arms are NOT glued down yet.
  7. Glue down a piece of decorative paper to act as the base of the paper quilt.
  8. Cut out squares of decorative paper. Measure to make sure the squares will fit on the paper quilt base you glued down.
  9. Taking one square piece of paper at a time, create a collage that represents a prayer/intention/wish for your family.
  10. Repeat this process until every square has a prayer/intention/wish on it.
  11. Arrange the prayer squares onto the canvas in a way that is pleasing to you.
  12. Once all the squares are glued down, add more details to the paper quilt to tie it all together.
  13. After all the details are added, glue down the arms.
  14. End with a prayer of gratitude.
Notes
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Recipe by Dana da Ponte, Intuitive Readings + Women's Circles | Combining art, ritual & moon magic to help women emotionally and spiritually nourish themselves! at https://danadaponte.com/the-love-quilt/