| What to make |
What you need |
What you do |
Jigsaw puzzles |
- Thick cardboard
- Magazines
- Glue
- Scissors or Stanley knife
- Ruler
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- Cut out a large clear picture and glue onto cardboard
- Draw a frame around the picture and colour in
- Draw straight intersecting lines or curved shapes on the picture (8 or 10 is a good number)
- Cut along the lines with a Stanley knife or scissors
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Money box house |
- Small milk carton
- Paper – brown and coloured
- Stapler
- Glue
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- Cover the container with brown paper
- Staple the top
- Cut out coloured paper to add house features such as windows, a door and roof
- Cut a slit in the roof, large enough to fit a fifty-cent piece
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Bon Bons |
- Cardboard rolls such as using foil or toilet paper rolls
- Used wrapping paper
- Crepe paper
- Glue
- Wrapping ribbon
- Used magazines
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- Tape the crepe paper or wrapping paper around the roll
- Decorate the roll with pictures cut from the magazine
- Fill the tube with an item such as a small written message, a picture or a joke
- Tie with wrapping ribbon at both ends
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Animals |
- Egg cartons
- Pipe cleaners
- Coloured paper squares
- Glue
- Paint
- Wool
- Cardboard
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- Decide on an animal you would like to make such as a turtle, caterpillar, a spider
- Use the egg cartons cut up as parts of the body and the other things to make the other parts
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Shakers |
- Container that can be held in your hand and has a small opening
- Piece of dowel that fits in the container opening
- Sticky tape
- A selection of different substances that will make a variety of sounds such as rice, beads, sand, paper clips and seeds
- Decorating materials such as texts, glitter and paint
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- Place the small substances in the container
- Insert the dowel in the opening and seal it
- Decorate the container with paint, glitter or pictures
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Candle stubs (adult supervision required for this activity) |
- Old candles
- Milk cartons
- Food colouring
- Candle wicks
- Old newspaper
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- Melt candle sticks on a hot plate
- Remove the old wicks
- Add the food colouring. Cover the surface you are working on with old newspaper
- Pour into milk containers
- Add new wicks
- When set, remove the milk container and your new candle is ready
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Masks |
- Lots of different used materials such as wool, elastic, cardboard, egg cartons, foil, wrapping paper, cellophane
- Sticky tape
- Thin stick like a skewer or a chopstick
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- To make a mask you need to draw a basic shape on cardboard with eye spaces. You may also make nose and mouth spaces
- Use elastic to hold your mask on or use a thin stick to hold it over your face
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