Lockdown

Have you received one of our craft packs? Great! You’ll find some pictures and inspiration below. Not got a craft pack? Don’t worry, you can still try out the activities below with items you’ll find about the house. Think backs of cereal packets for card and package wrapping, flyers and old magazines for paper.

You’ll also find a link to our lockdown gallery. Send us pictures of your craft kit ‘I spy’ drawings or crafty makes and we’ll post them here!

Example Toddler pack 1

Example 5-12 pack 1

Example 10+ pack 1

Toddler Craft Wednesdays

10am Zoom. Check out the Facebook event description or email us for the link to join. Craft, songs and a story. No recording or social media posting. Materials listed on social media the day before.

Thursday Art and Craft Club

3pm zoom. Check out the Facebook event description or email us for the link to join. Age 8+ should manage alone, younger with support. No recording or social media posting. Materials listed on social media the day before.

Saturday Family Club

2pm Facebook Live or posted here on our website. Join us live for a group make-along where the focus is on toys and games you can make from your recycling! E.g. spinning foam dart targets and handheld racing games from a bottle and box!

Instructions

Boardgames

Images below on how to fold and glue together your die and ideas for creating forfeits and counters! Fun fact 1: Opposite sides on dice add up to 7. Sneaky maths.

Portraits

You could use your portrait page to draw yourself or someone else but how about a collage? Use images and colours from a flyer or magazine to create everything from eyes to skin tone. The pictures below are inspired by artist Frida Kahlo’s self portraits and can be used to show personality or mood as well as features.

Fun fact 2: Your eyes are actually about half way down your face. You could draw a faint line down the centre of your portrait and across the middle to help place your features.

Wands and Lanterns

Simple card shapes and either a stick/ straw or half plastic bottle can be made into beautiful wands and lanterns. Be creative with your designs! Plastic bottle lanterns can be lit up with an electric tealight NOT a real flame candle!

Treasure Map Boxes

Fold up the squares of the cross base and stick the sheet of paper into the middle square only. Fold down the sides of the box lid, fold over the flaps and stick. Decorate with scraps of paper and pens and design your own map. Why not lead the hunt around the house/flat?

Sticky Pictures and Threading Cards

Using sticky tape or frames with scraps of contact paper behind (sticky back plastic). Little fingers can add scraps of any materials to decorate. Use as many different textures as possible. Threading cards are perfect for developing those fine motor skills. Threading ribbon in and out of the holes.

Scratch Art and Straw Rockets

If you don’t have scratch art in your pack but you do have some black paint: colour a piece of card with your wax crayons. Use plenty of colour. Brush a layer of black paint over the top and leave to dry. Scratch in your design with a skewer or fork prong!

For straw rockets, roll a tube of paper and stick. Seal the top of the tube with a piece of sticky tape or glue. Add paper wings. Pop loosely onto a straw, take a breath and blow sharply down the straw. See how far you can make your rocket fly!