Paper Plate Bunny Rabbit

2 year old

3 year old

Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• Pink pastel
• Black pastel
• Pink pom-pom
• 2 cotton wool puffs
• White craft glue
• White cardboard paper
• Scissors
• 2 googly eyes
• Stapler and staples

Method:

1. Colour the inner circle of one of the paper plates pink.
2. Use the scissors to cut the paper plate in half.
3. On the other paper plate, use the craft glue to stick on the 2 googly eyes.
4. Use craft glue to stick on the pom-pom nose and 2 cotton wool puffs on either side of the nose.
5. Use the pink pastel to draw in a mouth.
6. From the white card, cut out a bow tie and colour it in.
7. Use the craft glue to stick the bow tie below the mouth.
8. Use the stapler to staple the ears to the face.

Footprint Crocodile

2 year old girl

 Materials:

• Pink OR green poster paint
• White A4 cardboard paper
• Button OR googly eye
• White craft glue
• Pastels
• Feet!!

3 year old boy

Method:

1. Paint the child's right foot using the poster paint and place it at an angle, facing upward, at the bottom of the page.
2. Paint the child's left foot using the poster paint and place it at an angle, facing downward, making the toes overlap with the other footprint.
3. Let it dry.
4. Once dried, use the craft glue to stick on the button or googly eye.
5. Once that has dried, let the child use the pastels to draw in teeth and other details.

3.5 year old boy

5 year old boy

Fire Fighter Hand Print

Materials:

• Red poster paint
• Blue glitter glue
• Orange kokie
• Brown kokie
• Black kokie
• Red kokie
• White cardboard paper

Paper Plate and Tissue Paper Ladybug

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Around 30 minutes
Messiness: High

Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• Red tissue paper cut into squares
• White craft glue
• Black paint
• Scissors 
• Pipe cleaners
• Cellotape

Method:

1. Cut the middle out of one of the paper plates to make a head.
2. Paint on the dots, stripe and eyes of the ladybug.
3. Once dry, apply a thin layer of craft glue over the entire surface of the ladybug (head and body).
4. Stick the red tissue paper squares onto the glue.
5. Use cellotape to stick the pipe cleaners to the under side of the head to create feelers.

Paper Plate Bee #1

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium


Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• Yellow paint
• Black paint
• Pipe cleaner
• White craft glue
• Cellotape

Method:

1. Paint both paper plates yellow and leave to dry.
2. Once they have dried, cut out the middle of the one paper plate for the head. 
3. Use black paint to paint on the bee's stripes and face.
4. Cut the pipe cleaner in half and twist each one into shape.
5. Use cellotape to stick each pipe cleaner to the under part of the head.
6. Use craft glue to stick the head to the body.

Paper Plate Clown

Age Group: 4 years (with help) to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• Paper plate
• White cardboard paper
• Coloured cardboard paper
• 2 pom-poms
• Crayons
• Kokies
• White craft glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Cut out a long triangular shape from the white cardboard and colour it in with different coloured crayons to make the clown's hat.
2. Trace your child's hands on the coloured cardboard and cut them out to create the clown's hair.
3. With a black kokie, draw on the clown's eyes.
4. With two different coloured kokies, draw rectangles around the eyes.
5. With a pink kokie, draw circles for cheeks and with a red kokie, draw a mouth.
6. Use craft glue to stick the hand prints to the back of the paper plate and the hat onto the front of the paper plate.
7. Use craft glue to stick a pom-pom on the top of the hat and another pom-pom for a nose.

Paper Plate Sun

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plater
• Yellow paint
• Black paint
• Yellow cardboard paper
• Orange cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate yellow and set aside to dry.
2. Whilst drying, cut out triangles from the yellow and orange card to make the sun's rays.
3. Once the paper plate has dried, use craft glue to glue the triangles on to the back of the plate. 
4. With black paint, paint on sunglasses and a mouth.

Paper Plate Dinosaur

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• White cardboard paper
• Green paint
• 7 split pins
• Scissors
• Black kokie

Method:

1. Paint both paper plates green and leave to dry.
2. Out of the white cardboard paper, cut out 4 equal length and width rectangles for the legs and an oval for the head.
3. Paint the green and leave to dry.
4. On one of the paper plates, cut a straight line about 2 thirds down the plate to make the dinosaur's body.
5. From the second paper plate, cut out about 1 third of the plate's rim for the neck.
6. Cut out the tail from the same plate.
7. Assemble all the parts of the dinosaur using split pins so that every part of it is movable. 
8. With the black kokie, draw an eye and a mouth onto the dinosaur's head.

Paper Plate Frog # 1

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• White cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Black kokie
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Green paint 

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate green and put aside to dry.
2. Whilst the plate dries, trace your child's hands onto the green cardboard paper and cut them out.
3. Cut out two long oval shaped eyes.
4. With the black kokie, draw smaller half ovals near the bottom of the eyes and colour them in for the pupils.
5. Once the plate has dried, use craft glue to stick the hands and eyes to the back of the plate.
6. Draw in a mouth and nostrils with the black kokie. 

Handprint Sea Scene

Materials:

• Poster paint
• Small circular sponge
• 5 googly eyes
• White craft glue

Paper Plate Frog # 2

3 year old

2 year old

 Materials:

• Paper plate
• Green poster paint
• Pink poster paint
• Black poster paint
• 2 A4 pieces of white cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Paint the underside of the paper plate green.
2. Paint your child's hands green and place them on one of the white pieces of card.
3. Cut out a strip from the other piece of white card and paint it pink.
4. Let everything dry.
5. Once the handprints have dried, cut them out.
6. Use craft glue to stick them to the back of the paper plate as legs.
7. Glue both sides of the pink strip together to create a circle and use the craft glue to stick it to the middle of the plate.
8. From the left over white card, cut out 2 circles for eyes.
9. Paint the middle of the eyes with black poster paint and let them dry.
10. Once dried, use craft glue to stick them to the top of the paper plate.
11. You now have a frog!!

Handprint Flamingo

Materials:

• Pink poster paint
• Googly eye
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Handprint Tiger

Materials:

• Orange poster paint
• Black poster paint
• Googly eye
• White craft glue

Handprint Giraffe

Materials:

• Yellow poster paint
• Orange poster paint
• Googly eye
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Button Car

4 year old

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Scissors
• White cardboard paper or black cardboard paper
• Buttons
• White craft glue
• Orange poster paint
• Black poster paint
• Glitter glue

Method:

1. Cut the paper plate in half.
2. Paint it using the orange poster paint.
3. Leave to dry.
4. Whilst drying, paint the white card black (or alternatively use black paper).
5. Leave to dry.
6. Let the child choose an array of buttons and once the plate is dry, use the craft glue to stick them all over the plate.
7. Once the card is dry, cut out 2 circles for the wheels.
8. Use craft glue to stick them onto the back of the paper plate.

Plastic Spoon Dragonfly

Materials:

• Plastic spoon
• Acrtlic paint
• Googly eyes
• Black permanent marker
• 2 tongue depressors
• Kokies
• Bostik glue

Method:

1. Paint the spoon with the acrylic paint - if you do not use acrylic paint, it will just flake off.
2. Whist drying, get your child to decorate the tongue depressors with the kokies.
3. Use Bostik glue to stick the tongue depressors together at the middle to mimic dragonfly wings.
4. Once the spoon has dried, use Bostik glue to stick the spoon onto the tongue depressors. 
5. Use Bostik to stick on the googly eyes.
6. Draw a mouth with the black marker.

Handprint Dinosaurs

Materials:

• Poster paint
• Googly eyes
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Footprint Cat

Materials:

• Black poster paint
• White poster paint
• Pink poster paint

Footprint Zebra

Materials:

• White poster paint
• Black poster paint
• Coloured A4 cardboard paper

Footprint Chick and Handprint Lion

Materials:

• Yellow poster paint
• Orange poster paint
• Googly eyes
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Plastic Spoon Snowman

Materials:

• Plastic spoon
• Black felt
• Orange felt
• Scissors
• Black permanent marker
• Bostik glue

Method:

1. Cut out a top hat shape from the black felt and glue it on the top of the plastic spoon with Bostik.
2. From the orange piece of felt, cut out a carrot shape and use Bostik to glue it to the middle of the spoon, making sure that it sticks out further than the end of the spoon.
3. Use a black marker to draw on eyes and a mouth.

Lion Mask

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Black kokie
• Scissors
• Elastic
• Yellow paint

Method:

1. Draw a lion face and mane onto the piece of white card.
2. Paint the card yellow.
3. Once dry, cut out along the lines of the mane.
4. Remember to cut holes for the eyes!!
5. Poke small holes on the each side of the mask and attach elastic.

Tissue Paper Fish

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Tissue paper cut into squares
• Googly eye
• Coloured cardboard paper

Method:

1. Cut out a simple fish shape from the coloured cardboard.
2. Spread white craft glue all over the cut-out in a thin layer - using a small spatula works perfectly.
3. Stick the pieces of tissue paper onto the glue. It's ok if the tissue paper goes over the edges as you can trim it off once it has dried.
4. Stick on the googly eye with the craft glue.

Speckled Beans Sea Bed

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Blue poster paint
• Speckled beans
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Small piece of yellow cardboard paper
• Googly eye 

Method:

1. Paint the whole of the paper plate blue and put aside to dry.
2. Whilst drying, cut out a small, simple fish shape from the yellow cardboard.
3. Once the plate has dried, spread a thin layer of craft glue on the bottom third of the plate and sprinkle with speckled beans to create the sea bed.
4. Stick on the fish and googly eye.

Foot Print Cars

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Green poster paint
• Yellow poster paint
• Black poster paint

Leopard Mask

Materials:

• Paper plate
• White cardboard paper
• Black kokie
• Orange poster paint
• Black poster paint
• Brown poster paint
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• 2 black pipe cleaners
• Craft knife (for mask)
• 2 googly eyes (optional)

Method:

1. Paint the underside of the paper plate orange.
2. Cut out 2 large round-edged rectangles from the white card and paint them orange.
3. Cut out 2 smaller round-edged rectangles from the white card and paint them brown.
4. Let everything dry.
5. Once the plate is dry, daub the tip of a paintbrush, covered in black paint, onto the plate to create spots.
6. Cut out a round-edged triangle from the white card for the nose.
7. Once everything has dried, use craft glue to stick them all into place.
8. Bend the pipe cleaners in half and use craft glue to stick them to the paper plate. You will have to hold them down for a minute or 2 to make sure they stick.
9. Use the black kokie to draw on a mouth.
10. If you choose to make the mask, use the craft knife to cut out holes for your child's eyes, otherwise use the craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.

Foot Print Sail Boat

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Poster paint

Craft Stick Lodge Scene

This one is for much older children - was quite challenging for me!!
The materials I am stating are exact to what I used, obviously you can change the colours and sizes if you so wish!

Materials:

• A3 white cardboard paper
• 7 red craft sticks (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 18 orange craft sticks (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 14 yellow craft sticks (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 2 purple craft sticks (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 1 blue craft stick (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 2 orange craft sticks (16 x 1.7 cm)
• 1 red craft stick (16 x 1.7 cm)
• 2 red match sticks
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Black kokie
• Red kokie
• White craft glue
• Blue felt
• 1 purple clothes peg

Method:

1. Copy the picture above. But first do the house and then the pond and then the drawing.
2. When doing the house, start with the wall and then move on to the roof. The roof especially, is very precise with measurements, so you will need a ruler for this. 
3. Have fun!!!!

Puzzle Piece Photo Frame

Materials:

• Poster paint
• White craft glue
• Wide-edged photo frame
• 30 or so puzzle pieces

Method:

1. Paint the puzzle pieces the colour of your choice. It gives a cool effect if they are painted different shades of the same colour.
2. Once COMPLETELY dried, use the craft glue to stick down the first layer of puzzle pieces onto the frame. Wait for this layer to dry.
3. Repeat with a second and third layer or until you are happy with the effect.

Paper Plate Hippo

3 year old

3 year old

Materials:

• 2 paper plates
• Grey poster paint
• Pink poster paint
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• 2 pieces of white cardboard paper
• Black kokie

Method:

1. Paint the underside of both paper plates grey and leave to dry.
2. Paint one of the white cards grey and also leave to dry.
3. Once the paper plates have dried entirely, turn one over and paint it pink. 
4. Leave to dry.
5. From the grey card, cut out to ears and 2 nostrils.
6. From the white card, cut out 4 teeth.
7. Cut the edges of the paper plates off to create rectangle shapes, with the short sides still being curved and the long sides being straight.
8. Fold the pink and grey paper plate in half with the pink being on the inside. 
9. Use craft glue to stick one of the grey sides onto the bottom half of the other grey plate to create a mouth.
10. Use craft glue to stick on the ears, nostrils, eyes and teeth.
11. Use the black kokie to draw dots around the nostrils.

Not-So-Wicked Witch

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Green poster paint
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Yellow wool
• Orange paper
• Black kokie
• Black cardboard paper
• Stapler and staples
• Scissors

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate green. I daubed the paintbrush onto the plate rather than painted normally as it creates a nicer effect.
2. Whilst drying, cut out a triangular shape from the orange paper for the nose.
3. Cut out a long, pointy triangle from the black card.
4. Cut out a long rectangle from the black card and staple it onto the bottom of the triangle to make the hat.
5. Cut about 10 or so long strands of yellow wool - try get them the same size.
6. Once the plate has dried, use the craft glue to stick on the googly eyes and nose.
7. To stick down the wool, spread craft glue at the top and down the side edges of the plate so that the wool sticks around the plate.
8. Staple the hat onto the paper plate. I stapled it once on each side to secure it in place - this is much easier than using glue!!
9. Use the black kokie to draw the mouth.

Angel Hand and Foot Print

Materials:

• Black cardboard paper
• White poster paint
• 2 googly eyes
• Black kokie
• Gold glitter glue

Duck Foot Print

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Blue poster paint
• Yellow poster paint
• Googly eye
• Orange kokie
• White craft glue
• Red glitter glue

Bottle Cap Fishes

Materials:

• Blue cardboard paper
• 4 bottle caps
• Glitter glue
• 4 googly eyes
• White craft glue
• Orange paper
• Scissors
• White poster paint

Method:

1. Decorate the bottle caps with the glitter glue.
2. Use the craft glue to stick on one googly eye per cap.
3. Cut out 4 triangles as tail fins from the orange paper.
4. Use the craft glue to stick the triangles onto the paper.
5. Decorate the triangles with glitter glue.
6. Use the craft glue to stick the bottle caps onto the card, overlapping onto the triangles.
7. Use the white paint on the tip of a paintbrush to create bubbles.

Finger Print Grapes

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Green poster paint
• Purple poster paint

Method:

1. Use the purple paint to paint the child's thumb.
2. Have them place their thumb on the paper to create a triangular shape.
3. You may have to apply paint to their thumb more then once.
4. Use the green paint to paint on a stem and leaves.

Button Tree

Materials:

• A3 white cardboard paper
• Brightly coloured buttons
• Brown paint
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Use the brown paint to paint the tree trunk and branches.
2. Once dried, use the craft glue to stick on the buttons.