Extended picture
What You Need:
- White paper
- Coloured paper
- Scissors
- Crayons and pencils
- Glue
Activity:
- Draw an illustration onto white paper. Fill the page entirely with colours, shapes, patterns and images.
- Cut the page into strips, keeping them in order.
- Glue each strip to coloured paper. Allow for a 2cm(or more) gap between each strip.
Notes:
- Alternatively make a collage (instead of a drawing), to cut and extend.
- Rearrange the order of cut strips of the original image to create an entirely new pciture.
Indoor paper basketball
What You Need:
- A large paper cup or a milk/ juice carton cut on half (discard the end with the opening and keep the part that resembles a container) or a medium sized box
- Scissors
- Paint and paintbrushes
- Large square of cardboard for the backboard
- Masking tape
- Scrap paper/ newspaper
Activity:
- Cut out the base of the cup/ milk carton/ box.
- Decorate it with paint. Set aside to dry.
- Tape one side of the newly decorated cup/ container/ box to the square of cardboard. This is the basket.
- Hang it somewhere: rest it against a table or shelf, hang it from a chair or a door.
- Scrunch up scrap paper to make small basketballs.
- To play, throw the paper basketballs through the top opening of the basket.
- When you play with others, see who can score the most points.
Kids pizza perfection
Pizza is great to make with the family. Not only will your kids be happy to finish their meal kitchen, they will have the opportunity to show you just how creative and artistic they are! It's easy and fun and you can even help them choose healthy ingredients to make their pizzas.
What You Need:
- Any size pita bread or individual size pizza crusts.
- Toppings: Cheese, tomato sauce, mushrooms, ham, capsicum, olives etc
Activity:
- Turn on the oven to 200°C.
- Prepare the toppings by putting them out into individual bowls.
- Place a pizza base in front of each child and let them design their own pizza.
- Stand by to be on hand if your kids need any help.
- Place the pizzas into the oven for 10-12 minutes until cooked.
Enjoy!
Potato stamps
You don't need to buy art sets - your home is loaded with materials your kids can use to create art with. Let the kids raid the cupboard for old potatoes or apples that can be turned into homemade stamps.
What You Need:
- 2/3 medium potatoes
- sharp knife for carving
- paper
- paint
- dish
- sponge
- newspaper
Activity:
- Cut the potatoes in half. Using a knife carve simple shapes into the flat side of the potato halves.
- Cover your child’s work bench with newspaper. Put some paint in the dish and wet the sponge with paint.
- To stamp, press the potato stamp onto the painted side of the sponge like you would press a stamp onto an inkpad.
- Once inked up, firmly press the potato stamp to paper. Repeat process.
Notes:
- You may need to make more potato stamps depending on how many children are involved in the activity. Stick to one or two paint colours.
- Cut diamonds, squares, addition signs, hearts, triangles, circles, lines, stars, and letters.
- You can also use a roller sponge to ink up the potato stamps. Make sure the stamps are well inked and firmly pressed for best results.
- You can use the paintings as wrapping paper, or before beginning fold the paper into cards that can be decorated. When painting make sure you have an apron for your child.
Australian flag collage
Inspire your child's artistic expression with this colourful art and craft project. Making an Australian Flag Collage is a kids activity that everyone can enjoy so get ripping and painting today.
What You Need:
- Cardboard
- Tissue paper - blue, red and white
- Glue
Activity:
- Draw an outline of the Australian flag on the cardboard using the template below.
- Rip up the tissue paper into small pieces.
- Scrunch the tissue paper into small balls.
- Paint the cardboard with glue.
- Your child can glue the scrunched tissue paper to the card in the design of the flag.
Note
You can print out the Australian flag and paste it onto the cardboard as a guide, to know where you need to glue the different coloured tissue paper.
