today was the last of our halloween crafts before the party. We made paper pumpkins similar to these. ours were made with orange and yellow paper and we stapled them together as couldnt find any glue.
I havent been able to add a picture as i cant find where lil man put it. All i know is that it didnt go with us to the party.
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Showing posts with label paper. Show all posts
Monday, 2 November 2015
Sunday, 18 October 2015
October 17th 2015 - paper book folding
I have spent today again trying to come up with easy crafts that are suitable for both boys and girls for my St John Cadets to do that are not the "normal" cut and stick kiddie crafts.
I have a pile of books upstairs that are going to the charity shop, so I decided to try and make a paper book folding christmas tree. Looks easy enough so I had a go.
The insctructions I found were in German so I had to hunt for some in English asn translation didn't make sense.
Anyway, take a book and remove the cover and take out about 60pages leaving the glue on the spine, the more pages you use the thicker the finished tree will be but it will take longer to do:
From here you need to start folding pages like you would to make a paper airplane! Make sure you have the spine to the left when you start as its easier. Take the top right corner and fold down to the spine and crease so its a sharp fold (I use and old store card):
Then you need to take the section and fold onto itself so that you get a thin point at the top and airplane shape, again crease so its a sharp fold:
You will notice that the bottom of the folded page sticks out below the bottom of the book, this also need folding. If you bend it down over the rest of the book you will get a fold mark, using this tuck the bottom bit upwards so that it is hidden under the 2nd fold:
Keep folding the rest of the pages in the above way (it is time consuming but worth it):
Then once you have folded all the pages you will need to staple the 1st and last pages together to make it as a cone shape and it will look like this:
It is now upto you if you decorate it or leave it plain. I am going to add a glitter paint to the folded part of each page that makes the tree and add some sparkly stars and a pom pom to the top.
please make sure if doing with children that the books are suitable incase they decide to read any of the pages! I had planned to use the books that I have upstairs for charity shop but as I made this 1 I realised they are NOT suitable and will still be going to charity shop, so I will be going to buy some more suitable ones (maybe from the kids/teens section).
I have a pile of books upstairs that are going to the charity shop, so I decided to try and make a paper book folding christmas tree. Looks easy enough so I had a go.
The insctructions I found were in German so I had to hunt for some in English asn translation didn't make sense.
Anyway, take a book and remove the cover and take out about 60pages leaving the glue on the spine, the more pages you use the thicker the finished tree will be but it will take longer to do:
From here you need to start folding pages like you would to make a paper airplane! Make sure you have the spine to the left when you start as its easier. Take the top right corner and fold down to the spine and crease so its a sharp fold (I use and old store card):
Then you need to take the section and fold onto itself so that you get a thin point at the top and airplane shape, again crease so its a sharp fold:
You will notice that the bottom of the folded page sticks out below the bottom of the book, this also need folding. If you bend it down over the rest of the book you will get a fold mark, using this tuck the bottom bit upwards so that it is hidden under the 2nd fold:
Keep folding the rest of the pages in the above way (it is time consuming but worth it):
Then once you have folded all the pages you will need to staple the 1st and last pages together to make it as a cone shape and it will look like this:
It is now upto you if you decorate it or leave it plain. I am going to add a glitter paint to the folded part of each page that makes the tree and add some sparkly stars and a pom pom to the top.
please make sure if doing with children that the books are suitable incase they decide to read any of the pages! I had planned to use the books that I have upstairs for charity shop but as I made this 1 I realised they are NOT suitable and will still be going to charity shop, so I will be going to buy some more suitable ones (maybe from the kids/teens section).
Saturday, 26 September 2015
September 25th 2015 - Pumpkin game
September 25th 2015 - Pumpkin game
For Halloween my friend has asked me to sort out the games for the party. This got me thinking of what we could do that wont involve lots of things needing to be taken with us. I was also thinking along the lines of normal party games that we could make "halloweeny".
I had the thought on musical chairs - we don't have much room or enough chairs for loads of kids BUT we do have cushions, and from here came the idea of making pumpkins from paper for it. I found a pumpkin template, asked my friends to help with orange paper/card as I didn't have any (2 of my friends were able to help). I printed the pumpkin image and cut it out, and used it to draw round on the orange paper. These were then cut out and the extra lines added, the pumpkin stalks were made from brown paper and glued on. From here they are going to be laminated so can be re-used.
Although this may look big it was cur out of A4 paper, and its not as dark as it looks its a real bright orange.
The idea is that of musical chairs, each child will start with a pumpkin on the floor and they will dance round them etc, when the music stops they need to stand on a pumpkin. After the first round 1 pumpkin is removed so there is an extra child to pumpkin. therefore when the music stops 1 child will not have a pumpkin to stand on and will be out. Another pumpkin will be removed and play will continue. The winner is the last child that stands on the single pumpkin out of the last 2.
For Halloween my friend has asked me to sort out the games for the party. This got me thinking of what we could do that wont involve lots of things needing to be taken with us. I was also thinking along the lines of normal party games that we could make "halloweeny".
I had the thought on musical chairs - we don't have much room or enough chairs for loads of kids BUT we do have cushions, and from here came the idea of making pumpkins from paper for it. I found a pumpkin template, asked my friends to help with orange paper/card as I didn't have any (2 of my friends were able to help). I printed the pumpkin image and cut it out, and used it to draw round on the orange paper. These were then cut out and the extra lines added, the pumpkin stalks were made from brown paper and glued on. From here they are going to be laminated so can be re-used.
The idea is that of musical chairs, each child will start with a pumpkin on the floor and they will dance round them etc, when the music stops they need to stand on a pumpkin. After the first round 1 pumpkin is removed so there is an extra child to pumpkin. therefore when the music stops 1 child will not have a pumpkin to stand on and will be out. Another pumpkin will be removed and play will continue. The winner is the last child that stands on the single pumpkin out of the last 2.
Wednesday, 12 August 2015
August 11th 2015 - Minecraft papercraft
August 11th 2015 - Minecraft papercraft
Following our trip yesterday to the Rheged for the minecraft event, we have spent today making paper mincraft bits.
I have found loads of them, copied them all to word documents and printed them out - the kids wouldn't share them so I have had to print 3 copies of everything! (how to kill printer ink!) The older 2 were able to cut, fold and stick their own but I had to help lil man with his.
Some of them have turned out better than others, and some the glue has held others have had to have tape on.
Here are a few of their makes:
a torch, house red creeper, cat, 3 small and 1 big block. They do have pages upon pages of others that they can make as well.
Following our trip yesterday to the Rheged for the minecraft event, we have spent today making paper mincraft bits.
I have found loads of them, copied them all to word documents and printed them out - the kids wouldn't share them so I have had to print 3 copies of everything! (how to kill printer ink!) The older 2 were able to cut, fold and stick their own but I had to help lil man with his.
Some of them have turned out better than others, and some the glue has held others have had to have tape on.
Here are a few of their makes:
Monday, 3 August 2015
August 3rd 2015 - Making party bags
August 3rd 2015 - making party bags
Everyone buys the plastic party bags for treats etc to go in, well I wanted to be different! As lil man is having a Thomas tank themed party the plastic thomas bags are over £2 for 8 and i have 12 kids going to be there.
I bought a roll of thomas tank wrapping paper for 99p and found a link on how to make party bags on pinterest. They are actually quite easy to do once you get the hang of them and I guess with more practise they would look much neater, but lil man thinks they are ok for his birthday which is fine by me.
You need a box the size of the bag you are making, another box you can cut up, scissors, glue or double sided tape, paper, hole punch and ribbon.
Take the box that you are using for the size of the bag and using 1 end draw round it onto the other cardboard (do this for as many bags as you are making) and then cut them out.
These will be used later to re-enforce the base of the bag and make it stand up.
Next you need to cut the paper so that it is bigger than the box you are using - you need about 2" more than the distance needed to wrap around the box and about 3" extra in the length of the box. These extra inches are so that you can make the folds etc so the bag looks nice.
From here you need to fold the edge over about 1/2-1" (depending on size of bag your making - smaller bag = less fold). And also fold down the top edge as it's easier to do now before the bag is assembled. Once you have the folds you need to add glue or double sided tape to the fold on the side. Place the box on the paper and cover like you would to wrap a present. Before you stick the folded side to it you need to get it on the shorted edge (depth) of the box as it will look better.
You now have a part-wrapped present, you need to move the paper from the bottom part of the box so that it over hangs and you can fold the bottom. Again do it as you would a normal present and glue or double sided tape it together. Remove the box from the wrapper carefully.
Take the small rectangle of cardboard you cut out at the start and add glue or double sided tape to one side of it (the box I used had writing on one side so I put the tape on this side.) Then push it into you bag and down to the bottom.
From here you are almost done, you need to pinch the top at the sides and fold inwards so that you get a crease shape like shop bought bags have. Crease them hard with your fingers on both sides.
You can now put holes at the top of both sides and add the ribbon as handles. I'm not adding ribbon to mine but going to staple shut once they have the goodies in. As you can see the bag is complete and stands up. You can also fold them over so that they lay flat and take up less room if you need to store them or transport them anywhere.
I will certainly try and make them in the future rather than buying them. I do think thicker paper will be easier than thin birthday wrap, but as I wanted thomas ones I had to use what I had.
Everyone buys the plastic party bags for treats etc to go in, well I wanted to be different! As lil man is having a Thomas tank themed party the plastic thomas bags are over £2 for 8 and i have 12 kids going to be there.
I bought a roll of thomas tank wrapping paper for 99p and found a link on how to make party bags on pinterest. They are actually quite easy to do once you get the hang of them and I guess with more practise they would look much neater, but lil man thinks they are ok for his birthday which is fine by me.
You need a box the size of the bag you are making, another box you can cut up, scissors, glue or double sided tape, paper, hole punch and ribbon.
Take the box that you are using for the size of the bag and using 1 end draw round it onto the other cardboard (do this for as many bags as you are making) and then cut them out.
These will be used later to re-enforce the base of the bag and make it stand up.
From here you need to fold the edge over about 1/2-1" (depending on size of bag your making - smaller bag = less fold). And also fold down the top edge as it's easier to do now before the bag is assembled. Once you have the folds you need to add glue or double sided tape to the fold on the side. Place the box on the paper and cover like you would to wrap a present. Before you stick the folded side to it you need to get it on the shorted edge (depth) of the box as it will look better.
You now have a part-wrapped present, you need to move the paper from the bottom part of the box so that it over hangs and you can fold the bottom. Again do it as you would a normal present and glue or double sided tape it together. Remove the box from the wrapper carefully.
Take the small rectangle of cardboard you cut out at the start and add glue or double sided tape to one side of it (the box I used had writing on one side so I put the tape on this side.) Then push it into you bag and down to the bottom.
From here you are almost done, you need to pinch the top at the sides and fold inwards so that you get a crease shape like shop bought bags have. Crease them hard with your fingers on both sides.
You can now put holes at the top of both sides and add the ribbon as handles. I'm not adding ribbon to mine but going to staple shut once they have the goodies in. As you can see the bag is complete and stands up. You can also fold them over so that they lay flat and take up less room if you need to store them or transport them anywhere.
I will certainly try and make them in the future rather than buying them. I do think thicker paper will be easier than thin birthday wrap, but as I wanted thomas ones I had to use what I had.
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
July 28th 2015 - book hedgehog
july 28th 2015 - book hedgehog
today we went to the local community centre for their summer activities that they hold once a week during school holidays. Todays activity was to make book hedgehogs.
My youngest son started to make his book hedgehog by folding it how he had been told, but he got bored after about 8 pages, so asked me if I would finish it for him, which I did. I added the nose and eyes with glue when we got home instead of the double sided tape.
today we went to the local community centre for their summer activities that they hold once a week during school holidays. Todays activity was to make book hedgehogs.
My youngest son started to make his book hedgehog by folding it how he had been told, but he got bored after about 8 pages, so asked me if I would finish it for him, which I did. I added the nose and eyes with glue when we got home instead of the double sided tape.
Thursday, 30 April 2015
April 30th 2015 - Hedgehog craft
April 30th 2015 - Hedgehog craft
Today I was looking for "wild animal" activities for Badgers (St John Ambulance) for next week as part of their Wild Badge. I came across this Hedgehog, but as we are in spring i'm not going to find many brown leaves about.
But it gave me an idea - Hedgehog shape on paper and glue brown triangles to it to look like spikes. I set about cutting triangles from brown parcel paper and brown craft paper (darker). I then covered the hedgehog template in glue and stuck the triangles on overlapping themso thepoints were not stuck down.
It looked really good and was very easy to do. This is the image I have used as the base, the face and feet can be coloured with felt tips or crayons.
Today I was looking for "wild animal" activities for Badgers (St John Ambulance) for next week as part of their Wild Badge. I came across this Hedgehog, but as we are in spring i'm not going to find many brown leaves about.
But it gave me an idea - Hedgehog shape on paper and glue brown triangles to it to look like spikes. I set about cutting triangles from brown parcel paper and brown craft paper (darker). I then covered the hedgehog template in glue and stuck the triangles on overlapping themso thepoints were not stuck down.
It looked really good and was very easy to do. This is the image I have used as the base, the face and feet can be coloured with felt tips or crayons.
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