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.

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.

Clothes Peg Golden Sun

3 year old

 Materials:

• Paper plate
• Yellow poster paint
• 2 googly eyes
• 5 clothes pegs
• Purple tissue paper
• Red tissue paper
• Orange tissue paper
• Yellow tissue paper
• Blue tissue paper
• White craft glue
• Red kokie

Method:

1. Cut the paper plate in half.
2. Paint the one half yellow.
3. Paint the 5 clothes pegs yellow.
4. Cut out 1 strip of each of the colours of tissue paper.
5. Once the plate has dried, use craft glue to stick the strips to the straight part of the plate.
6. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.
7. Use the red kokie to draw a mouth.
8. Once the pegs have dried, clip them onto the outside of the sun!

Snowman with Ribbon

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Black kokie
• Red kokie
• Pastels
• White craft glue
• Cotton wool
• 2 googly eyes
• Black button
• 3 coloured buttons
• String
• Ribbon

Method:

1. Draw an outline of a snowman with the black kokie.
2. Colour the hat in with the pastels.
3. Spread craft glue on the tummy and head of the snowman.
4. Stick wisps of cotton wool onto the glue.
5. Use the craft glue to stick on the eyes, buttons and string (mouth).
6. Use the red kokie to colour the string.
7. Tie a bow with the ribbon and use craft glue to stick it onto the snowman's neck.

Autumn Tree Scene

Age Range: 6 years to 10 years old
Estimated Time: 30 to 45 minutes
Messiness: High

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Orange paper
• Yellow paper
• Red paper
• Cardboard tube
• Green poster paint
• Blue poster paint
• Brown poster paint
• Red tissue paper
• White craft glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Paint the white card green.
2. Use the brown poster paint to paint rings around the cardboard tube.
3. Cut about 2cm slits from the bottom of the tube.
4. Bend them outwards and stick craft glue onto the bottom of each flap.
5. Stick them down onto the now green card.
6. Cut about 3cm slits from the top of the tube, less the 1cm apart from the other.
7. Cut out leaves from the coloured paper.
8. Use craft glue to stick the leaves onto the 3cm flaps.
9. Use blue paint to paint a river and pond onto the now green card.
10. Crumple bits of red tissue paper into balls and use the craft glue to stick them under the tree.

Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow

3 year old

Age Range: 2 years to 8 years old
Estimated Time: Under 20 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Black cardboard paper
• Scissors
• Pritt glue
• Red tissue paper
• Orange tissue paper
• Yellow tissue paper
• Green tissue paper
• Blue tissue paper
• Purple tissue paper
• Gold glitter glue

Method:

1. Cut out a pot shape from the black card.
2. Use Pritt glue to stick it onto the white card.
3. Cut out squares from all the tissue paper colours.
4. Using Pritt glue, paste a the squares of each colour in strips going down so that it looks like a rainbow.
5. Use gold glitter glue to draw in gold circles to represent the "gold" in the pot.

Cotton Wool Rain Cloud

Age Group: 2 years to 7 years

Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• String
• Cellotape
• Various sized blue pom-poms

Method:

1. Cut out a simple cloud shape from the white cardboard.
2. Spread a layer of white craft glue over the cloud and stick on the cotton wool balls.
3. Cellotape 3 long pieces of string onto the back of the cardboard.
4. Cellotape 3 different sized pom-poms onto each of the pieces of string to mimic raindrops

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!

Plastic Spoon Angel

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 8 years

Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Plastic spoon
• Cupcake liner
• Bostik glue
• Glitter glue
• Gold pipe cleaner
• Black permanent marker
• Scissors
• Cellotape

Method:

1. Flatten out the cupcake liner and fold into half.
2. Cut a triangle into each side so that when you open it up, it creates a wing on either side.
3. Use Bostik glue to stick the spoon down the middle of the cupcake liner.
4. Decorate the cupcake liner with glitter glue.
5. Twist a small piece of gold pipe cleaner into a circle and secure it on the top of the spoon with cellotape to mimic a halo.
6. Use a permanent marker to draw on a face for your angel.