Native American Owner Stick
	When Native American families gathered firewood or food, they marked the pile they had collected with an owner stick or possession stick GRADE LEVEL SUBJECT TIME FRAME 6 Miscellaneous Social Studies Under 1 hour Materials: 36" x 3/4" Wood dowel Two 12" x 3/8" Wood dowels Acrylic paint - brown, aqua, red, yellow 3 yds of Hemp cord Two 24" pieces of hemp cord 40 Pony beads - 8 each of five different colors 16 Feathers - 5 assorted colors Small wood diamond shapes Black permanent marker Glue Paint brush Ruler Craft Tips: Materials used in this project include: Forster® Wood Dowels and Woodsies™; Delta Ceramcoat® Acrylic Paint; Darice® Hemp Cord, Pony Beads and Feathers; Beacon™ Kids Choice Glue™; Fiskars® Ruler Step-by-Step Instructions: Paint dowels brown. Paint 3 diamonds yellow, 2 diamonds red, and one diamond aqua. Let dry, then draw a line along edges of diamonds with a black marker. Starting 12" from one end of the cord, tie the 3 yard length of hemp cord around the 3/4" wood dowel 7" below the top. Secure with a knot. Position the small dowels crisscrossed over knot. Wrap remaining cord several times horizontally around all dowels at the center of the cross. Change pattern, wrapping cord from top to bottom several times around small dowels on each side of large dowel. Continue wrapping original pattern leaving a 12" tail. Tie both ends together in front. Wrap and tie one 24" cord on the lower end of each small dowel leaving 6" to 8" long tails. String one of each color pony bead on each end of cord. Tie knot at the end of cord. Push quills of two different colored feathers up into each set of beads. Glue painted wood shapes to front of dowel as shown. Draw markings on front of dowels as pic¬tured or use your imagination to draw your own designs with the black marker. This Craft Plan submitted by: Hands On Crafts for Kids. Project deisgned by Dimples Mucherino. www.craftsforkids.com