Patchwork Elephant Using a Milk Carton

For this you will need:

• Tissue paper in assorted colours
• 1 Large plastic milk carton with a handle
• Glue and paint brush
• Scissors
• Eyes (not shown) can be googly or cut out of paper

To make :

• Wash out the milk carton, throw away the lid and cut off the top just following a line around the bottom of the handle. Discard the bottom of the milk carton.
• Cut out large squares of tissue paper in a variety of colours




• Glue the squares to the milk carton in a patchwork style
• Add a couple of eyes either side

Finished Patchwork Elephant by Shelley aged 4

Christmas Pudding Christmas Card

For this you will need:

• 1 piece of white A4 card
• 1 piece of brown paper
• 1 small piece of green card
• 1 small red circle
• glitter
• white paint
• black paint
• glue
• scissors
• silver pen
• paint brush
  

To make:

• Fold the white card in half and put to one side

• Cut a large circle out of the brown paper using the cribkle scissors if you have them.
• Add some PVA glue to the white paint, approx 50/50 and paint the cream on top of the pudding.

• Sprinkle the cream with glitter

• Paint black spots for the fruit in the pudding




• Cut a holly shape from the green card and glue to the top of the pudding




• Glue the red circle on top of the holly for the berry




• Write your message onto the card with the silver pen




• Glue the finished pudding to the card

Christmas Card by Evan Aged 6

Write your message and send.

Frog Puppet

To make this you will need:

• Two paper plates


• Paint colours


• White paper


• Coloured card


• Stickers to decorate


• Glue


• Black pen


• Paint Brushes


• Sellotape


• Scissors
  

To make:

• First cut one paper plate in half and fold the other in half to create a crease


• Paint the whole plate a mouth colour such as pink or red


• Paint the two halves of the plate a body colour

• Put both plates aside to dry


• Draw two circles onto the white paper for eyes and cut them out


• Cut out two large eye socket shapes out of coloured card, then glue the eyes onto them

• Put two folds at the base of the eye sockets


• Cut a tongue shape out of the coloured card


• Once the paint is dry, sellotape the tongue to the inside of the frog mouth


• Using PVA glue, glue the two half plates to the full plate keeping wrong sides together


• Allow to dry


• Sellotape the two eyes to the cut edge of the half plate


• Decorate with stickers

Finished Frog!!

Parrot Collage with Feathers

To make this you will need:

feathers available from craft shops

A4 paper white or coloured

shiny paper cut into feather shapes

black pen or printer

glue

brown Crayon or pencil

To make:

• First draw a parrot shape onto the A4 paper



• Then decorate the parrot with the feathers and glue
  


• Colour in the beak and branch

A is for Apple Collage

To make this you will need:

Red paper - tissue paper, magazine cuttings, sweet wrappers, card, any scraps of paper

Green felt tip or pencil

Outline drawing of an apple. Click here for pattern.

Glue

Scissors

To make:

• Cut or tear the paper into small random pieces
• Glue them inside the apple outline
• Colour the stalk and leaves green

Finished!! Mmmmmm.

Alternative: You could try other fruits, just change the colour of paper. Try b is for....banana, p is for.....pear, or o is for........orange.