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Make your own Ice Skating Snowman Theatre

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icetheatreThere’s snow doubt about it Winter is coming! *Excuse me while I laugh heartily at my multiple clichés and puns :D* The nights are drawing in and the weather is super nippy so why not cosy up and get crafty with the kids. Today’s tutorial to make your own ice skating Snowman theatre is a fun way to embrace the season while keeping warm! It was made using materials provided by Bostik as part of their Craft Ambassador program.

Full instructions to make the theatre are included in this video but I’ll also pop text instructions below.

What You’ll Need

Bostik Blu Tack Foam Pads

Bostik Micro Dots

Bostik White Glu

A cardboard box

Foam or paper to decorate the sides

Blue card

Tracing Paper

Foam

Snow themed stickers

Fluffy Balls (or pom poms)

Polystyrene Star

Glitter

Lolly sticks

Thread

Tape

 

Step 1

Start with a cardboard box, stick back 3 flaps with tape, leave one flap open.

Step 2

Decorate the sides & back using foam (or paper) stick into place using the Bostik Foam Pads.

Step 3

To make the frozen lake (ice-rink) use a blue sheet of cardboard with a piece of tracing paper laid on top. Cut shapes out of foam to make the edge of the lake, add white foam on top to represent the snow. Stick into place using Bostik Micro Dots or White Glu.

Using Foam pads stick the ice-rink to the open flap of the box

Step 4

Cut a slit into the back of the box, then decorate the interior using stickers. To add further decoration I stuck fluffy balls (snow balls) to the scene using foam pads.

Step 5

Cover a polystyrene star with Bostik White Glu, then sprinkle over glitter. Once dry stick to the back of your scene using foam pads.

Step 6

Now to make the snowmen. Stick fluffy balls (or pom poms) on top of each other and then stick to a lolly stick.

Step 7

Tie thread around some sparkly pom poms and stick to the top of the theatre using foam pads.

Finally paint the outside of the box, slide your snowmen through the gap at the back and you’re ready to play!

 

 

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Halloween Ghost Decoration Craft for Kids

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Boo!! Did I scare you?? Probably not but as Halloween is nearly upon us I thought I better give it a go. I’ve never been keen on the gory side of Halloween and my children don’t particularly like being scared but we’re all for Pumpkin carving, apple bobbing and other child friendly activities. As a Bostik craft ambassador I get to create child-friendly crafts every month, so this month it had to be a Halloween Ghost Decoration Craft for kids. This one (made by my son) has been named ‘Bounce!’

To make your own spooky pal you’ll need

Some fabric

Polystyrene ball

Bostik Glu dots

Bostik Sew simple glue

Buttons

Felt (to make a mouth)

Decorations – we used pumpkin ribbon and fusible beads

Elastic cord

Keyring

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Step 1

Start by cutting a rough square out from a piece of fabric. We used pinking shears as it prevents fraying and give the ghost a wiggly edge. Turn the fabric over so that the wrong side is facing up.

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Nest cover half of the polystyrene ball with Bostik sew simple glue. Stick into the centre of your fabric and then gather the fabric around to stick into place.

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Using a cocktail stick or sewer make a hole through the fabric into the polystyrene ball (might need an adult to do this bit). Stick in some elastic cord using the sew simple glue. We used black cord so that it wouldn’t show up at night. Now leave to dry.

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Stick two buttons onto the fabric using Bostik glu dots. We used one larger and one smaller and two different colours to give our ghost a bit of character!

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We used a moon shaped felt sticker to make the mouth, you could of course cut one out.

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It’s time to decorate! My son cut small pumpkins off pumpkin trimming and stuck to the ghost using the sew simple glue.

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Next he made some simple shapes from glow in the dark fusible beads (which Mummy ironed!) and these were stuck to the ghost using Glu dots.

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Tie the elastic cord onto a keyring and your new friend is ready to play!

 

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Make your own word game with Bostik!

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The summer holidays are a distant memory and school is back in full swing but there’s no need to feel gloomy because today’s post combines education with creativity. Whether your little student is learning to read or improving their spelling now you can make your own word game with my brand new tutorial. This was made using materials provided by the good folks at Bostik as part of their Craft Ambassador Program.

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What You’ll Need

Plain Fabric Bag

Bostik Sew Simple Advanced Glue

Wax Crayons

Foam Letter Stickers

Cardboard

Fabric

 

bostikschool2Step 1

Start by decorating the fabric bag with wax crayons. Once your happy with the design it’s time to fix it. I do this by turning my iron onto a high setting with no steam. Cover the design with kitchen roll and gentle iron over. The kitchen roll will absorb some of the wax from the surface.

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Step 2

Time to make the letter counters! Cut some small lengths of patterned fabric and use the Bostik Sew Simple Advanced glue to stick the fabric to coloured card. bostikschool5

 

Step 3

Once the fabric is completely dry cut into small squares.

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 Step 4

Stick a variety of foam letter stickers to the cardboard side of the counters. Make sure you have plenty of vowels.

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Now you should have a good selection of letters and be ready to play!

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How to Play

Put all the letter counters into the fabric bag and shake to mix them up.

Each player selects 15 counters on their first turn and tries to use as many of them as they can to make words.

On each subsequent turn each player grabs 5 more counters and tries to make more words (using any leftover letters from the previous draw). Carry on until all the letters have been drawn.

The winner is the player with the least amount of unused letters leftover.

 

 

 

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