Space Collage

To make you will need:

• black paper
• glitter pens
• coloured paper
• shiny paper
• scissors
• printer
• glue
  

To make:

• Print out some planet, rocket or alien shapes out onto the coloured paper. Cut them out. We found our printables here
• Cut out some stars from the shiny paper.

• Glue the planets, aliens and space ships onto the black paper.
• Decorate with the glitter pens.
• Leave to dry.

You could also use sticker stars to decorate.

Finished by Evan - Aged 5

Making an Easter Card - Easter Bunny or Chick

To make the Easter Bunny card you will need:

• blank card and envelope
  an egg shape
• rabbit shapeglue
• coloured pencils or crayons
• stickers
• ribbon
• foil shapes
  

To make the Easter Bunny card:

• Cut out an egg shape from a piece of coloured card
• Cut out a rabbit shape from a piece of card
• Decorate the rabbit and easter egg shape
• Glue the rabbit to the card but leave his arms loose
• Decorate the card
  

Finished Card!!

To make the Easter Chick you will need:

• a blank card
• coloured card
• split pin
• coloured pencils or crayons
• glue
• ribbon
• stickers
• foil shapes
  

To make the Easter Chick:

• Cut out the chick shape and the egg shape from coloured card
• Decorate the chick and the egg
• Attach the top of the egg to the bottom half the egg on the left hand side using the split pin
• (see detail below)

• Glue the chick to the card
• Decorate the card
  

Finished Card!!

Making Spring Animal Masks

Sheep Mask

To make this mask you will need:

• paper plate
• elastic
• pink, yellow, grey paper
• cotton wool
• stapler
• hole punch
• glue
• scissors
  

To make the mask:

• Cut out the face, and 2 ear shapes from the paper plates.
• Cut two eye holes into the mask.
• Cut out the hair shape from the grey paper, two pink ear shapes and the nose from the pink paper and a flower shape from the yellow paper.
• Stick cotton wool all over the mask and then glue on the hair, flower and nose.
• Next glue the pink paper shapes into the ears and staple them to the plate.
• Hole punch one hole either side of the eyes and thread the elastic through.
  

Variation:

Chick Mask

You will need:

• a paper plate
• orange card
• pink paper
• stapler
• paint brushes
• hole punch
• elastic
• scissors
• glue

To make:

Cut out a face shape from the paper plate.

Cut out two eye holes from the mask.

• Paint the mask yellow.
• Cut a hair shape and a triangle for the beak and glue them onto the mask. Cut two circles from the pink paper as cheeks and stick them to the mask.
• Punch two holes into the mask either side of the eyes.
• Thread the elastic through and attach.
  

Variation:

Rabbit Mask

You will need:

• two paper plates
• paint
• elastic
• holepunch
• glue
• cotton wool
• paint brushes
• scissors
• black paper
• stapler
  

To make:

• Cut a mask shape from the paper plate and two rabbit ears from the second plate.
• Cut two eye holes out from the mask.
• Paint the ears and face, we chose pink, you can choose any colour.
• Staple the ears to the face.
• Stick some cotton wool to the ears.
• Cut 6 stripes from the black card for whiskers and a black nose.
• Glue to the whiskers and nose to the rabbit mask.
• Punch two holes either side of the eyes and thread elastic through and secure.

Spring Flowers in a Vase

To make you will need:

• Straws
• Squares of cut up tissue paper
• Tissue paper cut into leaf shapes
• Glue
• Sticky tape
• Cup cake cases
• Paint or pencils to decorate (not shown)
• A washed yoghurt drink pot

To make:

Screw up the tissue paper loosely into balls

Paint or colour the cup cakes if desired.

Stick the tissue paper inside the cup cake cases

Glue the leaves onto the reverse of the cases

Cellotape the straws to the back of the cup cake case

Place in the vase, you can decorate the vase too, if you want .

For something different you could make a Mothers Day card and glue the cupcake cases onto a piece of folded card and glue some strips of tissue paper onto the card as stems.

Mothers Day Mosaic Boxes

To make you will need:

• Box, we used heart shaped boxes here but you can use any box with a lid
• Different coloured squares, we cut up paint charts from the DIY shop
• Glue
• Chocolates
  
  To make:

Cut up the paint charts into 1cm squares and some triangles.

Glue the squares to the box

Put Chocolates inside to give to Mum or anyone else special.