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.

Foot Print Cars

Materials:

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

Fire Engine Footprint

Materials:

• A4 white cardboard paper
• Red poster paint
• Yellow poster paint
• White poster paint
• Black poster paint
• Black kokie
• Ruler

Dump Truck Footprint

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Orange poster paint
• Brown poster paint
• Yellow poster paint
• Black kokie

Tractor Footprint

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Green poster paint
• Yellow poster paint
• Black poster paint 
• Brown poster paint
• Black kokie (optional - can use black paint instead)
• Ruler (optional - can use free hand)

Hot Air Balloon Scene

Materials:

• Blue cardboard paper
• White paper
• 6 buttons of various sizes and colours
• Big yellow/orange button
• Yellow/orange pastel
• Pritt glue
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Method:

1. Cut out a few clouds from the white paper.
2. Glue them onto the blue card with Pritt glue.
3. Using craft glue, stick the 6 buttons over the blue card.
4. Use craft glue to stick the yellow/orange button into the top corner.
5. Use the yellow/orange pastel to draw sun rays around the yellow/orange button.
6. Use the black kokie to draw a basket and rope for each of the 6 buttons.

Glitter Glue Rocket

4 year old

 Materials:

• Black cardboard paper
• White paper
• Red paper
• Green paper
• 3 red buttons
• Pritt glue
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Silver glitter glue
• Gold glitter glue
• Green glitter glue

Method:

1. Cut out a 16 cm x 7 cm rectangle from the white paper.
2. Cut out a triangle with a 7 cm base from the red paper.
3. Cut out 2 right angled triangles from the green paper.
4. Use the Pritt glue to stick them onto the black card to make a rocket.
5. Take the green glitter glue and draw 3 circles below each other on the white paper.
6. Use the craft glue to stick 1 red button in each of the green circles.
7. Use the gold glitter glue to draw and colour in flames coming from the bottom of the rocket.
8. Use the silver glitter glue to make dots around the rest of the black card as stars.

Toilet Paper Roll Rocket

Materials:

• Empty toilet paper roll
• Pritt glue
• Stapler
• Aluminium foil
• Orange paper
• Yellow cardboard paper
• Scissors
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Cut the orange paper to size and use Pritt glue to stick it around the toilet paper roll.
2. Cut 2 strips of foil and use Pritt glue to stick them over the orange paper.
3. Cut out 5 circles from the foil and use Pritt to stick them on too.
4. From the yellow card, cut out a circle and cut a triangle out of the circle - like a slice of pizza.
5. Use the stapler to staple the 2 sides of the cut out triangle together to make a cone.
6. Use craft glue to stick the cone to the top of the rocket.
7. Cut out 2 smaller triangles and use craft glue to stick them near the bottom of the rocket as wings.

Clothes Peg Aeroplane

Materials:

• Wooden peg
• 4 coloured ice-cream sticks
• Poster paint
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Paint the wooden peg using the poster paint.
2. Leave to dry.
3. Use the craft glue to stick 2 ice-cream sticks to the top of the peg and 2 to the bottom of the peg.  

Tissue Paper Dump Truck

Age Range: 2 years (with help) to 7 years old
Estimated Time: About 30 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Coloured paper in 3 different colours
• Black paper
• Various colours of tissue paper
• Scissors
• Pritt glue
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Cut out the truck from the various colours of paper.
2. Use Pritt glue to stick them together onto the white card.
3. Cut the tissue paper into squares and scrunch them up.
4. Spread craft glue on top of the truck where you want to stick the tissue paper.
5. Glue the small balls of tissue paper onto the craft glue.