Create
Draw
What does your house look like? Draw and colour it in. Are you at home? What are you doing?
There’s plenty more to draw. Why not draw a picture of your favourite food or your best friend? If you want to keep going, draw and colour in Croak’s house in paradise. Does Croak have any visitors?
Write
1. Write out the alphabet leaving a hand space between each letter.
2. Ask for help if you need it.
3. Once you have written out the alphabet, draw a picture next to each letter of something starting with that letter. For example, next to ‘A’ you could draw an apple.
Finished that? Why not write out your name and do the same? Or check out Type Away and keep writing!
Make
A stamp and wrapping paper
It is always extra special to give a present that you have made yourself, but why stop there? Let’s make our own wrapping paper too! Even better, let’s make stamps that we can re-use for lots of different things like cards, posters and signs.
What you will need:
· A large potato cut in half
· Pencil
· Paints
· A tool to scrape away the potato – an end of a metal spoon or fork should do
· Paper
What to do:
1. Decide what shape you would like your stamp to make – simple shapes tend to work better, such as a heart, tree, circle etc.
2. Draw the shape onto the flat side of your potato. It will be faint, but that is okay.
3. Using the end of your spoon or fork scrap away the potato outside your lines. So if it is a heart you will end up with a solid heart in the middle.
4. The shape should be at least a centimetre higher than the rest of the potato.
5. Place your potato, shape side down, into the paint. Make sure that the whole of the shape is covered.
6. Press your potato, shape side down onto the piece of paper you are decorating.
7. Keep doing this until you have the pattern you want.
8. You can make more stamps with different shapes or change colours.
