Peters Township hopping into Easter season
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Alice Cumba, left, and Kristine Cassano spend a relaxing evening painting pine cones and crafting Easter sock bunnies at Peters Township Community Center April 6. Both women have attended ladies craft nights at the center before, and enjoyed the evening out, creating.
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Craft materials grace a big table inside Peters Township Community Center April 6, where women gathered for an Easter sock bunny ladies night.
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Alice Cumba, of Peters, paints a pine cone carrot orange. Once complete, the pine cones were a sweet little carrot companion to the Easter sock bunnies crafted at Peters Township Community Center last week.
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Peters Township Recreation Supervisor Kristen Martin, center, explains the Easter sock bunny craft to a group of women during the April 6 ladies night in Peters Township Community Center. Martin leads a craft night monthly or bimonthly, depending on the calendar.
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Alice Cumba, left, and Kristine Cassano share a laugh while filling socks with dry rice. Once decorated, the plain white socks transformed into adorable Easter sock bunnies.
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A finished Easter sock bunny created by Kristen Martin, recreation supervisor, stood as a model of what the ladies night craft might look like.
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Alice Cumba sizes up just where the button eyes on her Easter sock bunny should go before glueing the buttons to her sock.
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Shannon Ferrari, left, laughs as Nancy Krah performs a sock puppet show before filling the pink sock with rice. Ferrari and Krah attended the ladies night at Peters Township Community Center April 6, and left with sweet little Easter sock bunnies to display in their homes.
Courtesy Kristen Martin
From left: Alice Cumba, Nancy Krah, Shannon Ferrari and Kristine Cassano proudly display their finished Easter sock bunnies. The ladies crafted the cute decorations April 6 at the Peters Township Community Center.
Music and laughter filled the Peters Township Community Center last week, where a group of women gathered to craft Easter sock bunnies during ladies night.
“Every month, every other month, I do a ladies night. I just do different crafts,” said Kristen Martin, the township’s recreation supervisor. “Whatever I find on Pinterest.”
Pinterest may have sparked the idea, but the sock bunnies took on personalities of their own, inspired by the creativity of the four women in attendance April 6.
Led by Martin, the group painted pine cones bright orange – rustic carrots, attendee Nancy Krah laughed – and filled socks with rice.
“Two cups dry or cooked?” Kristine Cassano teased.
Throughout the evening, the ladies chatted about everything from past Parks and Recreation events – Alice Cumba has repurposed a Valentine’s Day box crafted in February, and Cassano uses the macrame wine glass she created – to grandchildren and the pronunciation of their names.
I like “being out with different people, meeting new people,” said Krah, who arrived with charcuterie tray in hand. “Kristen is a delight.”
Delightful, too, was the relaxed, no-pressure crafting process. Once socks were stuffed with rice, the ladies fashioned ears from the excess material, hot glue-gunned button eyes and noses to sweet little bunny faces and dressed their creations in ribbons and bows.
“It’s cute, fun, a relaxing, nice night out,” said Shannon Ferrari, who attended the event with Krah.
Martin has several other nights out planned, including a succulent magnet craft night in May. Registration for that event opens April 18.
To sign up, or to learn more about other community activities, visit https://www.peterstownship.com/172/Parks-Recreation.