Foam sheet or paper Dinosaur with movable parts and button toes.

Materials required:

• Coloured card or Foam Sheets
• Scissors
• Hole Punch
• Pattern from here: http://crafts.kaboose.com/img/craft_images/moveable_paper_dinosaur.pdf
• Buttons (one for eye and some for toenails)
• Googly eye
• 4 x split pins

Method:

1.  Cut out all the pieces as per pattern and punch holes as per pattern.

  

2.  Match up all the holes and work out where you will put the spikes on the back

3.  Glue down the spikes.  Glue down the extra button where the eye will go and then glue on the googly eye.



4.  Glue on the buttons for toenails.

5.  Where the holes line up put in the split pins.  (mine were a little long but worked ok).

6.  My kids were happy for them to be plain but you could easily use sequins for scales etc to add another dimension. 

The boys loved doing the dinosaur roar!!!!

Cardstock Robots with button parts

 

Materials required

• Scissors
• Glue
• Various Cardstock (the shinier the better)
• Assorted Buttons
• Pipe cleaners
• Sticky dots
• Scatter stars (or sticker stars)
• Black heavy paper for background

Method: 

1.  Firstly cut out a oval head shape. 

2  Just below the centre cut the oval in half

3  Assemble it so that it looks like the robot has an open mouth.  When happy glue it onto the paper....see below:

4.  Then cut out some feet, hands and a rectangle body. Place them slightly apart on the page and glue down

5.  Between the body and hands/feet glue down pieces of pipecleaner.  You can twirl them if you wish.

6.  Stick on the 2 stickers for eyes and add some button eyes. 

7.  Cut a smaller rectangle and place it onto the body of the robot and then glue it down.  Add some buttons for the robot components and also glue in place.

8.  Finally add some scatter starts to the page so it looks like the robot is standing against a twinkling sky.  You can also add other items such as rockets etc :)

The Girl Robot

The Boy Robot

Mothers day cards with fake flower petals and patty pans

Mothers day 2011



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Pulled apart fake flowers with patty pan centres and glitter added. Icy Pole stick used for stems and leaves were from pulled apart fake flowers.





Another version of description above. Recycled using cut up old box. This enabled the cards to stand on their own.

Slightly different centres. Some foam flower shapes. A stickers, paper letters and hearts.

Photo's are always a great thing to add to any card. So personal.

My daughter finished hers off by writing a greeting inside.  Beautiful job guys. xx

Easter Cards

I think Easter Cards are a lovely thing to be presented with at Easter.  I love my kids putting their personal touches on things and they can really do whatever they want with cards.  For this activity though we decided to use "Food Colour" for painting to make our eggs: 

(see earlier post "Food colour painting" http://kidslovecraft.blogspot.com/2011/03/crayon-oil-pastels-and-food-colour.html)

What you will need:

• Cardstock / Coloured Card
• White paper
• Food Colour mixed with a little water
• Paint Brushes
• Embelishments / glitter / ribbon etc
• Scissors / ruler

Method:

1. Put paint all over the paper randomly.  Wait to dry and then cut into egg shapes.
2. Fold a sheet of coloured paper in half.
3. Tear around the edges of another piece of coloured card so that it fits within the dimensions of the front of the card.  (use a ruler to use as a tearing guide or use scissors if you wish)
4. Add your egg shapes where you wish.
5. Stick on your embelishments / glitter / ribbon etc.

Easy pain free activity the kids and card receiver will love.  Here are some different examples:

Terracotta Pot LollIpop Easter Egg Baskets

These will make great gifts for easter and thanks to http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/flower-basket-661378/ for the idea.

What you will need:

• Terracotta pot
• Card stock / Coloured paper
• Template of a flower (I got mine here... http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/images/flowercard1.gif  http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/images/flowercard2.gif
• Scissors
• Stickytape
• Glue
• Tissue paper
• Paint
• Brushes
• Stickers / Flowers or items to glue on
• Lollipop
• Easter Eggs
• Pebbles (something to hold up the lollipop)

Method:

1. Paint the terracotta pot
2. Cover the stem of lollipop in green tissue paper (or green ribbon or equivalent)
3. Enlarge the flower template so that it is bigger than the head of the lollipop and then cut it out.
4. Tape or Glue the Flower onto the head of the lollipop.  You can add another flower or circle to the inside of the lollipop if you feel the lollipop itself isn't enough.
5. Cut out one or 2 leaves out of green paper and add a message for the person it was made.  When finished Sticky tape it onto the covered stem.
6. Finish decorating the dried pot with some decorations of your choosing.  We used flower cut outs.
7. Add some tissue paper of your colour choice to the pot and then half fill with pebbles so that the lollipop is stable.
8. Finish off by filling the remainder of the pot with small easter eggs. 

A lovely gift to give a loved one this easter. xx

The pot above had an accident and had to be reglued with PVA.  To reinforce it further I covered the whole thing in red tissue paper.  There was lots of tears about the broken pot so we needed a quick fix.  Turned out ok all things considered.  Maybe I should have been a recontructive surgeon.....NOT!

Easter Egg Baskets

These baskets are so effective and it was a joy to make them actually. 

Materials needed:

• Square sheet of cardstock (I cut mine down to 27cm x 27cm)
• Ruler
• Glue
• Sticky tape
• Scissors or a guillotine
• Stickers / items to glue on
• Shredded paper

Method:

There are a couple of really good sites that will show you how to do these see one link below:

http://seilifestyle.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-make-easter-basket.html

Each square equated to 9cm by 9cm.  I basically divied up the 27 x 27 cm sheet into 9 equal squares.  It shows which lines needed to be cut on the S.E.I website.  See their pic below. 

Very easy once scored and cut to bring it all together.....

These are a couple we made that we filled with shredded paper after decorating with stickers.  Each child had letter stickers to add their names to their baskets.

I think the kids will find them perfect for collecting those eggs during their easter egg hunt!!!

Paper bag scarecrows

These were a great little project.

Materials:

• Coloured paper
• Ribbon
• Googly Eyes
• Marker texta
• Icy Pole Sticks
• Glue
• Newspaper
• Foam Flowers (optional)
• Brown paper bags
• Sticky tape

Method:

1. Fill a paperbag with newspaper.  Insert a Icy pole stick into the bottom of the filled bag sealing the end with tape or Glue. 
2. Cut out a Nose (triangle works well), add some googly eyes, a couple of circles for cheeks and some shaggy hair. 
3. Cut out any hat shape you fancy, add some criss cross pattern if you wish.  A foam or paper flower looks good too.
4. Finally draw on a mouth and add a ribon around the base of the head and you are all done.