Make@Home

SPELL RECIPE

You will need:

  • A piece of paper

  • Some sticks and feathers

  • Some ink (or I use watered down black paint)

  • Pastels, charcoal (or even just chalk)

  • Some found natural objects to draw!

WATERCOLOUR PUMPKINS

You will need:

  • Watercolour paint

  • A piece of paper/card (the thicker the better)

  • a glass of water

  • a large paintbrush and a small paintbrush

  • a black biro

SPACE PICTURE

You will need:

  • Black paper

  • Pastels

  • Scrap paper for stencil

  • White paint pen or gel pen

  • Masking tape

PRINTING ON FOIL

You will need:

  • Some scrap cardboard covered in foil

  • Poster paint

  • Cotton bud/blunt pencil or even just a finger!

  • Paper to print onto (maybe some torn newspaper or magazines to stick onto the background)

  • Pastels or crayons to add to your print once it is dry.

PAINTING WITH BALLOONS

You will need:

  • a balloon blown up quite small

  • scissors

  • paint

  • Paint palette or just some scrap card or recycling.

  • paper (you could try this on top of news print or on some old wrapping paper)

  • Felt tip pens

PASTEL SEASIDE DRAWING

You will need:

  • Chalks or soft pastels

  • white or black paper

  • scrap paper for tearing (newspaper will work well)

  • Masking tape

WINDSOCKS

You will need:

  • An old coffee cup

  • Felt tip pens

  • Streamers/lightweight string or ribbon

  • Cellotape

  • Scissors

Cut the bottom out of the coffee cup and pierce two hopes either side of the bottom end.

Decorate you cup with pens and Cellotape your streamers/string/ribbon to the sipping end.

Thread about 1m of string through the holes at the top and tie in a knot!

Tie it in a window or outside to see it move in the wind.

LAYERED PAPER CITYSCAPE

You will need:

  • A pack of round coloured paper (or some paper cut into rounds)

  • Some recycled cardboard cut into a round and any off-cuts kept.

  • Pencil

  • Felt tip pens

  • Glue

  • scissors

  • String

  • Tape

PAINTING WITH RECYCLING

You will need:

  • A mix of paper based recycling and some twigs and sticks

  • paper

  • plack paint or ink

  • paint palette or some scrap card

PAPER WEAVING

This is a super easy activity to do at home without needing much in the way of materials.

You will need:

  • An A4 piece of paper (coloured or plain)

  • Either coloured paper/ magazine print or old wrapping paper to weave with

  • Felt tip pens and stickers if you have some at home

Simply fold your A4 paper in half and measure out 6 lines 3cm apart leaving a 4cm gap at the top by the open end.

Cut down those lines and then open the paper and start to weave strips in and out

Once you’ve finished weaving you can then add stickers or decorate with pens

You can add a frayed edge by snipping the bottom and crinkling it up and you can always tape a kebab stick at the top and add some string to create a wall hanging.

PAINTING WITH MARBLES

You will need:

  • A tray (it could be some tupperware or a baking tin)

  • Marbles

  • Paint

  • A5 paper

  • masking tape

  • scissors

  • colouring pens

  • kitchen roll (for dabbing off excess paint to speed up drying if needed)

BUTTERFLY SPECIMENS

You will need:

  • Coloured or plain paper (you could even try newspaper or magazine print) folded and Cut into butterfly shapes

  • Ear buds and tooth picks

  • paint

  • match sticks

  • fine liner/black biro

  • glue

  • A5 piece of card

INK MONSTERS

You will need:

  • Ink or watered down black paint

  • a pipette/dropper or just the straw for dropping ink onto the page

  • straw

  • black pen

MATCHBOX BEETLES

You will need:

  • A empty matchbox

  • Some card and paper (could be recycled)

  • A stone/pebble

  • Paint/glass pens

  • Felt tip pens

  • Hot glue or super glue

Start by gluing the pebble/stone to some card that will fit neatly into your matchbox.

Using a black pen draw on the legs and head and antenna to the card base.

Decorate your stone/pebble with your paint/glass pens and then pop your beetle into the matchbox.

Cut a paper strip to fit around your matchbox to make the cover and decorate the cover before you stick it on to the matchbox.

PRINTING WITH TOYS

You will need:

  • Paper folded in half to create a greeting card

  • coloured paper or scrap newspaper/wrapping paper, magazines

  • A collection of toys and recycling

  • Ink pads in different colours (you could use paint)

  • glue

  • scissors

FACE PRINTING

You wil need:

  • Poster paint

  • a piece of clear plastic (you could use an old picture frame glass or even a plastic folder).

  • paint brush

  • paper

  • biro

LEAF PRINTING

You will need:

  • Some dry leaves (try and find some in a variety of shapes.

  • Paper

  • Ink pads (you can use paint but make sure you dab excess off before printing for best results)

  • A rolling pin/ ink roller/ heavy book

  • Scrap paper (newspaper)

Choose a leaf and lay it on your ink pad with some scrap paper on top and press down hard making sure the whole leaf is evenly covered in colour.

Carefully place your leaf inside a folded piece of paper and fold shut.

Using a heavy book, rolling pin or ink roller (just some strong pressing will probably be fine) roller or press the paper.

Open up the paper and carefully peel off the leaf to reveal the print.

These make beautiful greeting cards!