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.

Frozen (Movie) Party Craft Ideas

Olaf Footprint Gift Bag

Materials:

• Brown cardboard gift bag
• White poster paint
• Orange felt
• 2 googly eyes
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Black kokie
• Pastels
• A foot!!

Method:

1. Paint your child's foot with the white poster paint and place it in the centre of the bag.
2. Wait for it to dry.
3. Use the black kokie to draw the outlines to 3 sections within the footprint for Olaf's body.
4. Draw eyebrows, a mouth and a tooth.
5. Use craft glue to stick on 2 googly eyes.
6. Cut out a small carrot shaped nose from the orange felt and stick it into place.
7. Use a blue pastel to colour in the mouth.
8. Use a brown pastel to draw in arms and hair.
9. Use a black pastel to draw in his "buttons".
10. Use the pastels to decorate the background.

Sven Reindeer Horn "Crown"

Materials:

• 1 A3 piece of brown foam
• Scissors
• Brown/copper glitter
• White craft glue
• Jewels/decorations
• Stapler and staples

Method:

1. Cut out 2 strips about 5 cm high from the foam.
2. Cut out 2 horns from the foam.
3. Spread craft glue over the antlers and generously sprinkle the glitter over the glue.
4. Shake off any excess glitter and wait for it to dry.
5. Use the craft glue to decorate the 2 strips of foam.
6. Staple the ends of the foam together, measure the child's head to make sure the band is not too big or too small.
7. Use craft glue to glue the antlers to the band.

Princess Elsa Crown

Materials:

• 1 A3 piece of white foam
• Silver glitter
• Blue glitter
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Variety of jewels/decorations
• Stapler and staples

Method:

1. Cut out a 5 cm high strip from the white foam for the head band.
2. From the rest of the foam, cut out the crown shape, making sure there is about 2 cm left on each side to staple the band to. 
3. Spread glue on the top outline of the crown and generously sprinkle on blue glitter.
4. Shake off any excess glitter.
5. Spread glue on the rest of the crown and generously sprinkle on the silver glitter.
6. Shake off any excess glitter.
7. Once dried, use the craft glue to stick on the decorations.
8. Staple the band to the ends of the crown, measure the child's head to make sure the band is not too big or too small.

Olaf Paper Bag

Materials:

• Brown paper bag
• White poster paint
• 2 googly eyes
• Brown kokie
• 3 brown pipe cleaners
• Orange felt
• Scissors
• Blue kokie
• White foam
• White craft glue
• 3 small black pom-poms
• Cellotape

Method:

1. Paint one side of the paper bag white.
2. Leave to dry.
3. Whilst drying, cut out a rectangle with curved corners out of the white foam for the tooth.
4. Bend one of the pipe cleaners in half and cut it to make 2 equal parts.
5. Bend one half around one of the full pipe cleaners to create a stick arm. Do this with the other 1 and a half pipe cleaners.
6. From the orange felt, cut out a carrot shaped nose.
7. Once the bag has dried, use the craft glue to stick on the two googly eyes, nose, and 3 pom-poms.
8. Use the brown kokie to draw in eyebrows.
9. Use the blue kokie to draw and colour in a mouth.
10. Use the craft glue to stick the tooth onto the mouth.
11. Use the cellotape to secure the arms onto each side of the paper bag.

Sven Paper Bag

Materials:

• Brown paper bag
• 4 beige fluffy pipe cleaners
• 2 googly eyes
• Brown felt
• Brown button
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Cellotape

Method:

1. From the brown felt, cut out an oval shape.
2. Use the craft glue to stick the oval shape (snout) onto the middle of the paper bag.
3. Use craft glue to stick the button onto the middle of the snout - you can always use a pom-pom instead of a button should you wish.
4. Use the craft glue to stick the 2 googly eyes into place.
5. Take 2 of the pipe cleaners and twist them together to make a cross shape. Do this with the other pair.
6. Cellotape the long end of the "cross" onto the inside  of the paper bag.
7. Bend the 3 other sections any way you wish to create antlers.

Craft Stick Dolls

5 year old

2 year old

Materials:

• 2 craft sticks
• White craft glue
• Black kokie
• Wool
• Scissors
• Cupcake liner
• Coloured pencils
• Flesh coloured card 

Method:

1. Flatten out the cupcake liner and colour it in.
2. Fold the cupcake liner in half twice to make a small triangle.
3. Use craft glue to stick the triangle onto one of the craft sticks to make a dress.
4. Cut out a circle from the coloured card.
5. Use the black kokie to draw a face.
6. Cut some wool for the hair.
7. Use the craft glue to stick the wool onto the head.
8. Stick the head onto the other craft stick.
9. Stick the craft stick with the dress on, on top of the other craft stick cross ways to create a doll.

Sandpaper Tree

This craft is a very nice sensory craft and the finish product looks really good!

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

Materials:

• White A4 cardboard paper
• Black sandpaper
• Wax crayons
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Different shaped leaves

Method:

1. Collect different shaped leaves and trace the outline onto sandpaper with a wax crayon.
2. Cut the leaves out and colour them in with different coloured crayons
3. Cut out a rectangle from the sandpaper for the tree trunk and colour it in with a brown crayon.
4. Paste them onto the white card with craft glue.

Natural Sunflower

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

Materials:

• Large piece of white cardboard paper - A3 size or bigger
• Yellow poster paint
• Sunflower seeds
• Leaves
• Brown crayon
• Green crayon
• White craft glue
• Pom-pom (optional)
• Button (optional)

Method:

1. Paint a large sunflower on the cardboard and leave to dry.
2. Once dried, spread white craft glue in the middle of the sunflower and sprinkle sunflower seeds.
3. Draw the stem and a leaf - you can also substitute these for the actual things!!
4. Harley (3 years) and Scarlett (2 years) decided that their sunflower needed bees and used a pom-pom and button to depict this.

Natural Tree

This is a really nice activity to get children outdoors, even if only for a short while. 

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 10 years
Estimated Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• A4 white cardboard paper
• Brown crayon
• Different types of leaves
• Flower petals
• Blades of grass
• Pritt glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Go into your garden and pick different types of leaves - I got hold of 6 different types.
2. Pick a small, brightly coloured flower.
3. With scissors, cut off a few blades of grass.
4. Use the brown crayon to draw a tree trunk and some branches - as you can see, I am no artist!!
5. Using normal Pritt glue, glue the leaves onto the branches, the blades of grass individually at the bottom of the tree trunk and the flower petals on the other side.

Sensory Rainbow

Below are two variants of a "sensory rainbow". The second one is made out of very different textured materials for each colour and the other is a little simpler.

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

Materials:

• Crayons in rainbow colours
• Pom-poms
• Felt
• Ribbon
• Buttons
• White card (A4)

Method:

1. Draw the rainbow in the correct colour order.
2. Let the child choose what material he/she would like to stick onto each colour.
3. Make sure that the object they choose is the same as the colour of that stripe in the rainbow!

Age Group: 4 years to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Pink felt
• Purple pom-poms
• Blue pipe cleaner
• Green feathers
• Sandpaper coloured in yellow
• Orange tissue paper rolled into balls
• Red kokie

Method: 

1. Stick all the items in the correct colour order.
2. This is a brilliant activity for tactile stimulation!