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Pirate Wallet

Patti — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:20:54 +0000

Cut a piece of black foam 21cm by 11cm and fold 7.5cm up from the short edge. Fold the top 5.5cm down and punch two holes in this part, 1.5cm from the edge and 6cm apart.
Thread a 30cm piece of stretchy cord through the holes and knot together on the inside of the wallet. (pic a)
Draw a skull and crossbones onto red foam and cut out with small scissors. (pic b)
Refold the black foam and use PVA to glue the skull to the centre of the top flap and the crossbones to the part underneath. Leave to dry completely. (pic c)
Cut two pieces of red foam, 6cm by 11cm. Position inside the wallet and lightly glue along the shorter edges of each to hold in place for stitching.
Use a double thickness of thread and over-sew around the edges to form pockets inside the wallet. Use the stretchy cord to loop around the wallet and hold it closed. (pic d)

Friendly Aliens

Patti — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:13:27 +0000

Cut a piece of foam 15cm by 10cm and fold it in half. Cut a head shape on one side of the piece, leaving a 4cm wide strip to make the body.
Unfold the foam and punch several holes in the top of the head. Punch two holes at each end of the strip and two more under each side of the neck. (pic a)
Roll in one side of the body strip until the holes at the end and under the neck line up. Thread half a pipe cleaner through each of the holes to hold the body shape in place and create the alien’s limbs. (pic b)
Cut some 10cm lengths of chenille and thread through the holes in the head to make a weird hairstyle.
Stick coloured pompoms on the ends of each pipe cleaner. Use small pompoms for the hands and larger ones for the feet. (pic c)
Add an odd number of wiggle-eyes and a smile cut from pink foam. (pic d)

Dad’s Octopus Paperweight

Patti — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:46:43 +0000

Mix up enough casting powder to fill a small plastic dessert or yogurt pot with a rounded bottom and leave to set for a few hours before pushing out of the mould.
Paint the plaster shape with two toning colours of acrylic paint, blending the brushstrokes together. (pic a)
Fix two wiggle-eyes to the front of the octopus’s body once the paint is dry. (pic b)
Draw around the body in the centre of a piece of coloured foam. From this circle sketch out eight wavy legs of about the same size.
Cut around the legs with a pair of small scissors and turn the foam over to hide any pencil marks before gluing to the bottom of the plaster body. (pic c)
Decorate the octopus by gluing on iridescent hearts of different sizes. (pic d)

Wheelbarrow Desk Tidy

Patti — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:30:41 +0000

Paint the different parts of the wheelbarrow in bright, primary colours. (pic a)
Use a fine paintbrush to decorate the sides with flowers. (pic b)
Cut two garden hoe and two fork shapes from self-adhesive foam.
Place the pieces either side of the top of a pencil so they stick together. (pic c)
Cut a 1.5cm wide strip of sticky foam and wrap diagonally down the pencil to hold the top shapes in place. (pic d)
Cut a 1cm strip of different coloured sticky foam and wrap around the ends of the diagonal strip using some double-sided tape to ensure it cannot unwrap.

Notice Board

Patti — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:18:06 +0000

Use a pencil to draw lots of random circles on the canvas.
Paint the circles with one colour of acrylic and fill in the background with another. (pic a)
Edge each circle with dots of gold using the outline pen and leave to dry completely.
Mark the centre of each side of the canvas and use double-sided tape to fix lengths of ribbon criss-crossing the front of the picture.
Use a small cross stitch at the edges to hold the ribbons to the canvas. (pic b)
Add a ribbon hanging loop to one edge, then cover all the edges with 1.5cm wide strips of self-adhesive foam. (pic c)

Model Garage

Patti — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:15:30 +0000

Cut a piece of yellow card to A5 and glue to the back of a cereal packet to strengthen it. Trim this to the edges of the coloured card. Cut another piece of coloured card the same size for the roof.
Cut some red card into rectangles 15cm by 10.5cm and roll each one around a pencil to make strong poles, 15cm long, and secure with double-sided tape.
Cut eight rectangles of yellow card 3cm wide by 10.5cm and wrap them loosely around the poles. Remove, then secure each roll with double-sided tape. (pic a)
Cut 1cm slits into one end of each roll of yellow card and fan out. Glue the rolls to each corner of the base and roof then cover with rings of sticky foam to strengthen. (pic b)
Fit the poles into the rolls on the base and place the roof on top. Cut another piece of card 21cm by 15cm and cut out windows and a door. Decorate with strips of paper and foam to look like a shop front and fix to the roof with a strip of paper so it hangs down.
Make cones from semi-circles of card covered in paper. Decorate the floor of the garage with stripes of paper. Make a petrol pump from square tubes and rolls of card and paint up some wooden cars with coloured acrylic to drive around the play-set. (pic c)

Foam Phone Charm

Patti — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:07:42 +0000

Cut a 6cm diameter circle from self-adhesive foam and decorate with glitter shapes cut from the self-adhesive sheets. (pic a)
Spell out your name with glitter letters and glue on foam flowers if you like. (pic b)
Fold a piece of card approximately 10cm x 5cm in half and place a length of cord in the fold.
Wrap the card with more cord and then tie the first thread tightly around the loops to secure them. (pic c)
Slide the loops off the card and cut the looped ends to make a tassel. Glue foam flowers over the neck of the tassel or bind it with more cord to make the cords hang down.
Fix the tassel to the sticky back of the disc and add a loop for hanging. Cover the sticky side with another circle of foam. (pic d)

Dog Cushion

Patti — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:03:43 +0000

Cut two ‘snowman’ shapes from brown felt and three smaller splodges from yellow felt.
Use a running stitch to sew the yellow splodges onto one brown body piece. (pic a)
Cut out an oval shape from black felt for the nose and sew to the front of the head using a running stitch.
Cut three leg shapes from brown felt. Cut one leg, a tail and two ear shapes from yellow felt, and a long tongue from red felt.
Sandwich the felt limbs, tail and tongue between the two body pieces and stitch neatly all around the edge, leaving a small gap. (pic b)
Stuff the body with fibre stuffing. Sew up the rest of the body before stitching the ears in place with a few cross stitches then sticking on a pair of wiggle-eyes. (pic c)

Denim Backpack

Patti — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:00:26 +0000

Copy our design onto a piece of white self-adhesive felt or sketch your own with a soft pencil.
Fill in the central details with bright colours of fabric paint using a fine brush and a little bit of paint at a time. (pic a)
Paint in the main background, going over the thin pencil lines otherwise these will show through the paint. (pic b)
When the design is dry, cut around the outside of the drawing with scissors and peel off the backing paper.
Stick the panel to the middle of a denim drawstring bag and use different colours of glitter glue pens to draw over the pencil lines to spell out words. (pic c)
Add borders to the pictures with dots of glitter glue. When the glitter is dry add flower jewels with PVA glue .

Chalk Board

Patti — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:11:06 +0000

1. Use blue acrylic to cover the outside of the chalkboard frame with two coats of paint and leave to dry. (pic a)

2. Use a white pencil to write ‘Dad’s things to do’ across the top of the slate. Paint over the lettering in red acrylic with a fine paint brush. (pic b)

3. Cut eight or nine 3cm diameter circles from red, orange and yellow self-adhesive foam and decorate them with star shaped foam stickers. (pic c)

4. Cut a 6cm diameter circle from plain orange foam and fold in half. Cut two parallel slits up from the fold and open out. (pic d)

5. Fix the large circle to the bottom of the frame using two sticky foam circles and arrange the others around the chalkboard.

6. Push a stick of chalk through the slits to write on the board with and add more small stars to the rest of the frame. Tie ribbon through the top hole to hang up the notice board.