What are you all doing (or trying to do) with ribbon sticks?
Ribbon sticks are a topic on this site because at the church where I work with kids, we've been making a set of ribbon sticks for each color of the liturgical year. At the beginning of each liturgical season, and sometimes on other occasions, kids are invited to carry the ribbon sticks during the procession at the beginning of the service. If there are enough ribbon sticks to go around the choir and clergy carry them too. And yes, even though I'm not a child, clergy or choir member, I usually join the procession with a ribbon stick too. Somebody has to model for the kids and give them directions, right? (Working with kids is such a handy "excuse" for doing fun stuff.)
We make the sticks like this:
- Cut wooden dowels into desired lengths.
- Sand dowels as needed.
- Cut strips of ribbon. Various widths and styles are good.
- Tape a set of ribbons to the end of each stick
- Secure the ribbons with a staple gun.
- Height of the people who will carry the ribbon sticks: Sticks and ribbons for small children have needed to be shorter than I imagined. Ribbons can easily end up on the floor & under foot.
- Where do the sticks go after their main use? Deposit them in decorative containers of sand? Keep them for waving in other parts of the service? Gather them up before they become weapons?
- Making the ribbon sticks can be a fun intergenerational project.
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