Five Elements Pentagram Craft for Yule!

This pentagram craft is quite simple, but very meaningful and fun to make. Each point of the pentagram has a symbol to represent one of the five elements. I like to keep the order as spirit at the very top, air on the top right, fire on the bottom right, water on the bottom left, and earth on the top left, but you can choose any order that makes sense to you. I used a spiral to represent spirit, a bell for air, matches for fire, sea glass and shells for water, and a stone for earth:

For those not familiar with the importance of the pentagram or the five elements, this diagram helps to explain:

These are the supplies I used to make my pentagram. I got the large craft sticks and twine at Walmart, the rocks, sea glass, and shells at Dollar Tree, and the bells at a thrift shop. (Dollar tree has bells too.) I already had the cardstock and matches at home.

Before you start, put on some festive music! Here is my Yule playlist if you need some inspiration:

The first step is to assemble your pentagram with five of the craft sticks. Gluing them together in this order was really fast and the pentagrams kept their shape with no fuss. I used Elmer’s Glue-All and it works well.

You could also use a glue gun, but the glue sets so fast that it doesn’t allow you to shift the sticks if needed. With the Elmer’s glue, you can push the sticks around a bit to get them aligned the way you want them. Once your pentagram is properly shaped, don’t touch it again until the glue is completely dry, which takes about 20 minutes.

While you are waiting, make your spiral. I traced a bottle cap to make a circle on my cardstock:

Now, you will want to switch to a glue gun. Glue one end of a piece of twine in the center of the circle. Once the end is firmly stuck, draw a spiral with the glue gun and press the twine into it. Be very careful so you do not burn yourself. (I use a LoTemp glue gun, but you still have to be careful not to touch the tip or the hot glue.) Also, it was easiest to only glue a little of the spiral at a time so there was enough time to get the twine in place before the glue hardened.

Continue until your spiral is complete. Once the glue is dry, cut out your spiral and get your other symbols ready.

If you want to hang your pentagram on your Yule tree, make a loop with a piece of twine and glue it to the top front of your pentagram:

Then, glue the spiral over the ends of the twine loop. Glue the rest of your symbols on as well. Your pentagram is done and ready to hang as soon as the glue has set. (Because I had heavier items on the left side of my pentagram, I also glued some small rocks on the back of the right side to counterbalance the weight.)

My local group, Vegan Pagans of Ohio, met for a Yule party and we made these as one of our crafts. I love how everyone’s turned out!

Here is mine on our Yule tree:

If you would like to see all the ways my mom and I celebrated Yule last year, click on the link to see my post about Yule 2017. I wish you a blessed Yule season!