Make a 3D Card Christmas Tree - with Printable Template!

This 3D Christmas Tree can be made quickly and easily! I used green card and foil stars, but you can use any colour card and decorate your trees with whatever you can find!

You will need...

Card

Scissors

Decorations

How to make it...

Print out your template - Click here for Christmas Tree Template

Cut out two Christmas Trees from your card.

Cut one tree, from the bottom edge, along the centre line, to small horizontal line that I have drawn on the template.

Cut the other tree from the top tip down to the same small horizontal line.

Slot the two trees together!

Actually you will now need to decorate them and it is easier to do this on the two separate trees - on both sides.

When they are decorated, slot them back together again and your tree is ready - have fun making them with your group!

Quiz - Match the Collective Noun to the Animal - Free Printable Quiz!

 

A new quiz for you to enjoy with your groups - 

Ten common animals to match to their Collective Noun!

Here is the link - Click and Print! Quiz - Collective Nouns

Hope you enjoy this Free Printable Quiz - Collective Nouns!

If you would like more quizzes 

please have a look at my eBook - 41 Easy Printable Quizzes

Four New Free Christmas Printables!

Have been having fun putting together some new Christmas Printables...!

Here is the first one - a List for Santa!

Good one for parents, to at least have an idea, what the kids are hoping Santa will bring them on Christmas Day!

Then we have a beautiful scene to colour in - The Nativity

As our schools prepare and show their Christmas Nativity Plays, this will give the kids the traditional and everlasting scene to colour in and display as we celebrate  the Festive Season...

Lastly we have two new placemats, to colour in and prepare to use them on your Christmas Day table, with your family and friends...

OR - why not set the children's places with a Christmas Placemat ready with crayons and let them colour them in, while waiting for the food to be served! 

And again while waiting for Christmas pudding to arrive! Peace guaranteed!!

Christmas Placemat 1

Christmas Placemat 2

For lots more Christmas Placemats and other Christmas Crafts Click here ...

Happy Christmas crafting!

Christmas Angel - Paper Plate Craft!

As the Festive Season approaches, we having been busy at The Day Centre for the Elderly making Christmas decorations and cards. Our favourite this year seems to be "The Christmas Angel" made from a paper plate!

Easy to do, but quite lovely when she is painted and "sparkled up" with tinsel around her skirt...

If you would like to make your own Christmas angel, I am happy to share it with you.

You Will Need

Paper Plate (I used a 23cm diameter plate)

Pencil Carbon Paper

Glue

Sprinkle Glitter

Paints or other "Colouring-In" materials

Tinsel or any other trimming you choose.

Stapler

Sequins or flat beads (if you want - to stick onto front of dress)

Turn the paper plate over so your are working on the underneath surface.

Trace the Angel Template 

onto the paper plate - on underneath surface!

Apply glue to the wings and sprinkle with glitter.

Paint the dress (or colour-in with your felt tip pens etc.)

Paint the hair and face.

Leave until dry.

Cut away the unpainted area.

Cut along the outside of each wing leaving only the last 3cm attached.

Bend the cut edges of the plate backwards and staple together as in picture.

Attach your tinsel or other trimming around the bottom edge of the skirt, using a stapler.

Stick on your sequins or beads onto the front of the dress. 

Happy Christmas!

                                      

Halloween Buttons!

 

A very easy Halloween Button craft to do with your groups...

What you need...

A4 sheet of card for background 

Yellow or orange card for your pumpkin 

Black buttons for your spiders and orange etc for the pumpkin

Glue stick 

Black felt tip pen 

How to make...

Print out your pumpkin - here is the Pumpkin Template 

With thanks to One Little Project for this free template!

Print your Halloween word - Halloween Template

Cut out both of these templates and stick them onto your A4 card

Stick your coloured buttons onto the pumpkin and scatter and stick the black buttons around the card

Draw on the spider legs...

Have a Happy and Scary Halloween...!! 

Tutorial - Lollipop Halloween Spiders and Ghosts!

  




Lollipop Halloween Spiders and Ghosts were great fun to make!

Lollipop Halloween Spider

You will need...

A lollipop on a stick

4 pipe cleaners (chenille craft stems)

2 Googly eyes (we used 7mm) 

Double sided sticky pads

 How to make... 
 
Fold each pipe cleaner in half and twist the centre once around the stick of the lollipop, making a leg on either side - eight legs in all. 

Push the legs up towards the round lolly "body" and attach a small double sided sticky pad to keep them in place and on this pad attach the googly eyes.

Lollipop Halloween Ghost

You will need... 

A lollipop on a stick

A piece of old sheeting (or you can use tissue paper) about 25 to 30cms square

Ribbon - we used black, purple orange and yellow - 3mm width

A Loom Band or small elastic band

Black felt tip pen

A plastic straw (optional)

How to make...

Place the round lollipop in the centre of the white sheeting and fix around the head with a small elastic band. 

Tie ribbons around the neck and draw a face with your black pen. 

As the lollipop sticks are short in length, we used the plastic straw as an extension! 

Our groups at Mencap loved this easy, fun craft...

Have fun at Halloween...!
 

Paper Plate Dream Catcher Tutorial - Easy and fun to make!

These Paper Plate Dream Catchers are great fun to make and easy for any age and ability...

You will need... 

A good quality paper plate -  needs to be rigid enough to keep its shape

A length of Yarn - we Used Cotton Yarn DK - 2.5m plus 2 or 3 pieces for the dangles - each about 40cms long - Also about 30cms to make a tag to hang it.

Beads with large holes - we used Pony Beads

Feathers - dyed ones available at craft shops

Colouring-in pens or paints

Punch to make holes 

Sticky Tape

How to make... 

Cut out the centre of the plate.

Punch holes around the inside hole as per photo - about 2.5cm apart - no need to measure - don't have to accurate!

Working on the "bottom" surface of the plate - colour or paint the decoration - our plates had ridges which added to the effect!

Take your long piece of yarn and secure one end with sticky tape to the inside of the plate.

Thread the yarn through the holes - back and forth - no fixed pattern - just as you like! When about two thirds through, thread some beads onto the yarn (see photo above) 

When all the holes are used up, secure the end again with sticky tape, on the inside of the plate.

Punch a hole centre top and make a loop to hang up your Dream Catcher.

Punch two or three holes along bottom edge for dangles...

Tie a bead about a third of the way down on your yarn - then thread beads onto the longer piece above the tied bead.

Thread the end of this yarn, above the beads, through the punched hole and secure with sticky tape inside the plate.

Repeat with other one or two dangles.

Tie feathers onto the ends of yarn below the beads.

Sweet Dreams!

Nicola with her Dream Catcher

Andy painted his Dream Catcher with Acrylics

 

Harry Potter Pop-Ups - Tutorials

 After a visit to London's "Harry Potter's World" our Craft Group at Mencap were keen to colour-in some Harry Potter characters - loads to find online and printable.

So we decided to use them to create some more Pop-Up pages...

See our previous Pop-Ups - Frozen & Monsters

For an excellent tutorial on how to make Pop-Ups have a look here...

Extreme Paper Making - Pop-up Basics

Here are some more we made...

 So easy to do and who doesn't love Po-Ups! 

Have a go - instead of just sticking pictures into your scrapbooks - make them

 POP-UP!