How
To Make A...
Funny
Face Board
You Will Need:
Card (could be cereal
box)
Black felt tip
Sheet of acetate
Tape
Scissors
Wax crayons
Kitchen Towel
Here's
How:
Draw large oval shape on card.
With tape stick acetate to card to stop it moving around.
Draw face with wax crayon onto acetate.
Clean off with kitchen towel.
Wrapping
Paper
You
Will Need:
Lining paper for walls
Kitchen towel
Paint
Paper plate – as palette
Thin card – ie empty tissue box
Scissors
Here's
How:
Cut a square of card approx 12cm along each side.
Fold in half.
On folded edge draw half a heart and cut out.
Also trim card to 1.5 cm along straight side of heart.
Screw up a piece of kitchen towel and dab into the paint.
Use heart shape as stencil to print first heart.
Repeat using 4 hearts together to make flower shape.
Use the edges of the stencil as a spacing guide.
Calendar
You Will Need:
A4 card (cream
or white)
Felt tips
Ruler
Book of dates
Glue
Tape
Ribbon or wool
Here's
How:
Fold card in half, open out.
Fold in half in the opposite direction and open out.
Using ruler and black felt-tip draw along fold lines to divide
card into 4.
Stick book of dates on the cross over point.
In each of the squares draw a basic skeleton of a tree in
brown.
Top left add pink flowers and pale green leaves - spring.
Top right add dark green leaves - summer.
Bottom right add orange and red leaves - autumn.
Bottom left add extra brown branches – winter.
Using tape and small piece of wool or ribbon make a hanging
loop on the back.
Jigsaw
You Will Need:
Card (old cereal
box)
Magazine picture(square or rectangle)
Glue
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
Here's
How:
Cut out picture and stick to card – make sure edges
and diagonal well glued.
Cut round picture.
Draw diagonals across back of card and cut along lines.
Storage
case
You Will Need:
Crisp or biscuit
tube
Coloured paper
Scissors
Glue
Pencil
Ruler
Items to put in box
Here's
How:
Measure size of tube onto large piece of paper and cut to
size with an overlap for glueing.
Cut strips from other papers about 1.5 cms in width.
Stick as stripes on base paper – make sure you glue
right to edges.
Cut off where strips are too long.
Stick around tube.
Picture
Frame
You Will
Need:
Cardboard
Picture or photo
Pencil
Paint – orange plus others
Paint brushes
Water
Tin lid palettes
Scissors
Tape
Ribbon
Here's
How:
Put spare paper under card as brush strokes will go over edge.
Place picture in centre of card and draw round – remove.
With orange paint, paint a border over these lines.
With other colours paint radiating lines from border.
(Remember to clean and slightly dry your brush in between
colours).
Cut short piece of ribbon and tape to back of card.
Greeting
card
You Will Need:
A4 white paper
Paints – yellow, orange and green
Kitchen towel
Fingers!
Here's
How:
Fold paper in half and then half again.
With orange paint
finger paint the centre.
With yellow paint
finger paint petals – working from centre outwards.
With green, paint
stalk and leaves.
Leave to dry and
write your greeting inside.
Crown
You
Will Need:
One sheet of a tabloid
newspaper
Foil
Shiny card form food boxes
Glue stick
Paperclips
Here's
How:
Fold newspaper in half lengthways.
Fold again twice more.
Wrap foil around newspaper, pressing well on the creases.
Cut diamond and triangle shapes out of the card and stick
as jewels on the crown.
Fasten ends together to fit with paperclips.
Face
Mask
You
Will Need:
½ A4 white paper
Beaker
Pencil
Scissor
Yellow and orange paint
Palette
Brush
Black felt tip
String
Glue
Tape
Spare paper for painting on
Here's
How:
Fold paper in half.
Draw round beaker top right corner away from fold.
Draw line from top of circle to fold.
Draw line from base of circle up to fold.
Draw triangle for ears.
Cut out.
Fold in a second fold on folded side to cut out eye holes.
Stick on ears at an angle.
Paint on yellow and orange markings – may need two coats.
When dry use felt tip to put in black markings
Also outline eyes and ears.
Tape string to side of mask level with eye holes.
Plate
Garden
You
Will Need:
Paper plate
Lid from cheese box
Sticky-tac
PVA glue
Leaves and flowers
Fir cones
Green and blue paint
Here's
How:
Paint plate green and inside of lid blue.
When paint dry stick lid to plate with PVA.
With sticky-tac fix cones as trees around the pond.
Add leaves and flowers to be the garden.
If you have some ducks or other animals you can put them in
your garden.
Fan
You
Will Need:
A4 white paper
Various coloured paints
Tape
Scissors
Here's
How:
Fold paper in on shorter side by about 1 and half centimetres.
Turn paper over and fold again – repeat to the end.
Cut off a small triangle form one end of the fan – this
will be the top.
Open out and paint each section a different colour –
the base can be left white.
When dry fold up again.
Fold over a small section at base and secure with tape.
Open out once again.
Boat
You
Will Need:
Small plastic margerine container
Coloured straw
Sticky-tac
2 different coloured sheets of paper
Stick glue
Scissors
Sticky dots
Here's
How:
Put sticky dots along sides of container as portholes.
Cut bendy bit off straw.
Cut triangle form one of the sheets of paper for the sail.
Fold in half and cut 2 small holes on fold.
Thread straw through these holes.
Cut a small rectangle form the other sheet of paper and fold
in half widthways.
Cut a triangle to form the flag.
Stick flag around top of straw mast.
With plenty of stcky-tac fix mast into base.
Hoopla
You
Will Need:
Paper plate
Scissors
Coloured wrapping paper
Tape
Pencil
Rubber
Here's
How:
Place rubber under centre of plate and with pencil make a
hole.
Starting at this hole cut out centre of plate to form disc.
Cut paper into strips about 2 cms wide.
Using tape stick one end of a strip to the plate disc and
wrap round and round and tape the end.
Repeat with other
strips until disc is covered.
This will give it weight for throwing.
Wool, string and fabric can also be used.
Greeting
card
You
Will Need:
A4 white paper
Paints – yellow, orange and green
Kitchen towel
Fingers!
Here's
How:
Fold paper in half and then half again.
With orange paint finger paint the centre.
With yellow paint finger paint petals – working from
centre outwards.
With green, paint stalk and leaves.
Leave to dry and write your greeting inside.
Puppet
You
Will Need:
Sock
Kitchen towel
Bag twists
Sticky dots – small black and larger red
Here's
How:
Screw up two small bits of tissue.
Put them one at a time into the opposite sides of the heel
of the sock and secure with twister.
Put black spot on each.
Put sock on hand, keeping eyes on the knuckles and tuck spare
toe bit in between the fingers and thumb.
Stick red dots for nose.
Wand
You
Will Need:
A4 piece of black paper
Foil
Tape
Scissors
Here's
How:
Roll paper in on itself along long edge to form tight tube.
Stick with tape.
Fold foil and tear to size as works better than cutting.
Fold foil in half lengthwise and stick a piece round each
end of wand.
Hey Presto!
Necklace
You Will Need:
Pasta
Wool or string or ribbon
Tape
Scissors
Paint – 3 colours
Paint brushes
Tin lids
Water
Kitchen towel
Tape
Here's
How:
Paint 5 pieces of
pasta in each of the different colours. (You may have to paint
one side and allow it to dry before painting the rest.)
Wind a piece of tape around end of wool to make it easier
to thread.
Thread one piece of pasta and tie off to stop them unthreading.
Then thread the others, alternating colours – tie off
last one.
Party
Place Names
You
Will Need:
White card (1/4 A4) or A4 paper
Paint 3 colours – red, blue and yellow
Palette
Water
Brush
Coloured pencil
Thin card
Scissors
Spare paper
Here's
How:
Fold card in half or paper 3 times in half.
Cut star out of thin card slightly smaller than the folded
card.
Have the paint ready out on palette.
Hold star in centre of card.
Paint out form the star with each of the 3 colours.
Remember to wash brush between each colour.
When dry write on name.
Hat
You Will Need:
Sheet of newspaper
Magazine
Scissors
Tape
Here's
How:
Using sheet double, fold in half.
Find centre of folded edge.
Fold in 2 corners on folded edge then stick down.
Double fold up on open edge.
From a coloured page in a magazine cut out feather shapes
and stick in brim of hat.
Bookmark
You Will Need:
Cream or white
card
Paint –Orange, green and purple
Scissors
Cardboard tube, cotton reels etc
Pencil
Tin lids for paint
Kitchen towel
Hole punch
Scissors
Wool
Here's
How:
Cut a piece of card slightly wider than the end of the tube
and as long as a book.
Using tube and purple paint print overlapping rings down length
of card and repeat with reel and yellow paint.
With pencil end print green dots.
Punch hole at base of bookmark.
Cut a piece of wool, double over and thread thru.
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