http://www.salaric.co.uk Handy Craft Addict Inflicting Art on Others Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:39:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I made this witch as an example of what sort of halloweeny things the scouts could make with pom poms, pipe cleaners and lolly sticks. All of the things used for the witch came from a Big Box of Spooky Crafts that I got from a shop called the Works ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/10/05/green-witch-a-flying/ I made this card to show to my scouts an alternative to making spooky halloween things. I got the purple card and the sequins on the card, not to mention the PVA glue, from the Big Box of Spooky Crafts. I picked out three black star sequins, three metallic orange butterflies ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/09/07/purple-autum-card/ Paper Leaf A while ago we went to Cheltenham museum and as part of one of the exhibits the children could make leaves to hang on a tree. My husband made this leaf with our two year old. He started off with a green circle of waxy tissue paper and folded an ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/06/29/fluttery-leaf/ For these heart beads I mixed up the appropriate colours to create the textures out of fimo soft (polymer clay). I then rolled each texture into sausages of fimo and cut them into millimetre-thick discs. Following this, I aligned these into a wonky square and used my finger to squidge ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/06/22/heart-beads/ I made this card as a get well soon card for a neighbour who had broken their hip. I used: the picture of the flowers which I had cut out of an old calender, a sheet of brown and a sheet of yellow card, scissors and a pritt stick. I had ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/06/15/brown-and-yellow-exotic-flower-card/ I made this card to send to my friend - I wanted to catch the essence of a summer/autumn landscape. I used one sheet of pale blue card because I thought this would look good as the summer sky in the backdrop of the picture. I then constructed the actual ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/06/08/impresionist-landscape-card/ Last year I gave the scouts some sheets of different coloured card, stick on red and orange gems in various sizes, stencils of cars and boats, and various colouring pencils and pens. Here are the fathers day cards they produced. Some of the fathers had birthdays around that time so ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/06/01/fathers-day-cards/ I made this princess hat with my two year old for a Prince and Princesses week they were having at her nursery, mainly because I had left the little princess/fairy dress she'd been given for Christmas at my parents' house and therefore had nothing to make her into a princess. ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/05/25/dioly-princess-hat/ I made this castle with my two year old for her nursery's "Prince and Princesses" week. I have split how we did it over three posts; this is the last one of the posts. In order they are: *Making a skeleton castle *Making a tissue mâché castle *Painting a tissue mâché castle We ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/05/18/painting-a-tissue-mache-castle/ I made this castle with my two year old daughter for her nursery's "Prince and Princesses" week. For ease, I have split up how we did it over three posts - this being the middle one, they are: *Making a skeleton castle *Making a tissue mâché castle *Painting a tissue mâché castle I started ... http://www.salaric.co.uk/2008/05/11/making-a-tissue-mache-castle/