Tuesday 14 June 2016

Farm Party Craft How To's...

These are crafts that any mum can easily set up in an evening for next to no money.  The two crafts were stained glass chickens and cotton wool sheep.  Both so simple but the chicken in particular looks great and is a nice thing for the kids to take away with them.

Cotton Wool Sheep

1. Find a sheep silhouette online and print off if you, like me, draw like your toddler.
2. Use a sharp pencil to draw around the sheep with the coloured piece of card behind it, this will imprint the outline.
3. Draw over the outline with a black marker but leave the legs - just the body and head.
4. Cut out some little rectangles from black card and use a chalk pen/tipex/white paint to colour a small section of each leg as the hoof
5. Set up the sheep for the kids with a bag of cotton wool balls, 4xlegs each, some goggly eyes  and some Prit Stick



Stained Glass Chicken

1. Find a simple chicken shape online and print off.
2. Trace onto card and cut out.
3. Use this template to trace the outline onto sticky back plastic/contact paper.  You need to make sure that you do one chicken facing each direction-I.e trace one side and then flip over template and trace again.  This is so that when you cut them out the two sticky sides of the pieces will stick together.
4. Blue tac one of the chickens, clear side down and peal off the paper from the sticky surface.  The sticky side will be face up.
5.  Have the children tear of small pieces of different coloured tissue paper and stick them onto the chicken covering the whole of the sticky surface.
6. Remove the paper from the sticky side of the other and place in on top of the tissue paper so that it is sandwiched between the plastic
7. Trim off any excess tissue paper from the edges




Animal Jigsaws

1. Find some animal outlines online (simple work best) and print off.  They need to be one to each A4 sheet
2. Place a piece of coloured card underneath the printed page and trace the outline with a sharp pencil.
3. Use a marker to draw around the outline created on the card
4. Cut the card into 4/6 jigsaw shaped pieces.



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