The document provides instructions for making several crafts including a hand poster, bumble bees, masks, paper fish, and a tree activity. For each craft, materials and step-by-step instructions are listed. Common materials include paper, paint, glue, glitter and various decorations. The crafts encourage creativity and making something to take home.

1. Wednesday, 19 November 2014 Hand Poster Hand Poster Materials:  Paper  Paints  Glitter  Scissors  Large coloured sheet of paper  Stickers  Feathers  PVA glue Step 1: Cover the palm of your hand in paint, and print it onto a blank white sheet. While that dries, cut out the letters of the group name doing the activity.

2. Step 2: Decorate each letter using paints and glitter etc, and leave them to dry. Step 3: Cut out the hands on the white sheets when they are dry and begint o decorate using the materials you have gathered. Step 4: Arrange the letters and hands on the large coloured sheet and glue down using PVA glue.

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4. Bumble Bee's Materials:  Cardboard toilet paper rolls  Yellow and black paint  Strips of white paper  PVA glue  Yellow and black pipe cleaners  Plastic eyes  Sellotape  White paper Step 1: Set up table with all materials you will need. Step 2: Paint 3 strips of white paper yellow and 3 strips black. While they're drying cut a cirle and two oval shapes from the white paper that will be the head of the bee and the wings. Paint them yellow or black. Step 3: Stick the strips onto the cardboard toilet paper roll using PVA in a yellow black order until the cardboard is covered. Step 4: Stick the bees face to the cardboard roll using PVA, then stick the plastic eyes onto the face.

5. Step 5: Stick the pipe cleaners onto the inside of the cardboard roll, two at the top behind the face to represent antennae, and another at the bottom of the back to represent a tail (AKA a stinger). Step 6: Finally, stick the wings onto each side of the bee using PVA glue and leave to dry. Posted by Fiona Mc Kenna at 14:06 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

6. Mask Decorating. Materials:  Mask decorating set (comes with mask, elastic strap and paints)  Feathers  Paints  Pipe cleaners  Stickers  Paintbrushes  Glitter  Sellotape  PVA glue Step 1: Set up table with all materials above. Step 2: Tie the elastic strap through the holes in the mask to fit your head. Step 3: Decorate using paints, glitter, stickers etc. Be as inventive as you like. Posted by Fiona Mc Kenna at 13:23 No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

7. Paper Fish: Materials:  Paper plates  Paint  Glitter  Stickers  Feathers  Sellotape Step 1: Set up table with paints, glitter, sellotape, stickers and other items you plan to use to decorate the fish. Step 2: Cut out shapes from the paper plates that can be used as fins. Step 3: Stick the fins on the back side of the paper plate using sellotape. Step 4: Begin to decorate the fish how you wish. Step 5: Use glitter, stickers and anything to make the fish look interesting.

8. Step 6: Stick on eye and mouth. You can also cut these out from paper plates and customise them yourself.

9. Tree Activity Materials:  Rubber gloves  Pictures of leaves  Leaves  Paints  Glitter  Large sheet of white paper Step 1: Get materials ready on tables for the actvity. Set up a seperate table with a large white sheet in which the outline of a tree is drawn on. Step 2: Paint leaves and decorate using glitter. Paint tree trunk brown and grass below. Step 3: Stick the decorated leaves on to the tree along with real leaves.

10. Aim: For the group to explore their artistic abilities with an end result they can take home.