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Harry Potter at Home

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Get your wizarding on!

OK, so this is pretty cool for all you HP fans out there, JK Rowling has launched a Harry Potter at Home Hub with games and activities to keep our brains and hands busy during this lockdown.

To enrol at Hogwarts you have to answer some very interesting questions! I am now officially a Hufflepuff and have a passport to prove it! 🙂

There’s loads of stuff on there to get going with like quizzes, wordsearches and crafting – you can even make your very own Harry Potter gift bag. Take a look.

I hope you’re all keeping well! Don’t forget to keep washing your hands, and take care of yourselves and one another.

Hang in there!

X Claire

Make Your Own – Rocket Comic Book!

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Make Your Own

Rocket Comic Book!

 

This latest downloadable make is now up on my DIY page

It’s a simple creative make for kids 7 and up, using basic, inexpensive materials. Click  to go to the DIY page and click on the Rocket Comic Book heading to download.

This fun make can be used to explore Science and Outer Space themes with children. Here’s a link to the NASA website to get you going!

 

I ran this workshop last year at a library. Here are some pics from the day – more inspiration! 🙂

Rocket Books
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Rocket Books
Comic books

Samurai Warrior Costume

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Here’s another make you can do at home. To find out how to make it, go to to my DIY page  and download the instructions there.

Have fun!

Make Your Own

Samurai Warrior Costume!

 

 

Easy make. Some help with stapling and cutting from a grownup required.

Suitable for ages 5 and up.

If you are educating at home, then use this fun activity to do research into Japan and Japanese culture. Here’s the Wikipedia link to get yopu going. Have fun and learn LOTS!

 

Just to let you know, there were women samurai warriors too. Go girls!

 

 

 

 

 

Make Your Own Eggbox Puppet

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Make Your Own

Egg Box Hand Puppet & Mini Easter Egg Holder

This is a super-easy make for ages five and up – even doable for younger children if grownups lend a hand. Make sure if you use scissors or a stapler that an adult helps you 🙂

Create a frog, owl, lion, hippo hand puppet (whatever animal you like!) from an old eggbox and basic art materials. And if you fill it with mini chocolate eggs it makes a great Easter present!

Materials

An eggbox

Felt tips/Coloured Pencils/Crayons

Poster paint – optional

Collage materials: Fabric, Coloured and patterned paper etc

Glue – PVA, pritt stick

Thin card/strong paper

Tools

Scissors

Glue gun (optional)

Stapler and staples or sticky tape

Method

1 Decide what creature you want to make your eggbox into

2 Draw a simple design onto your egg box

3 Paint (if you’re using paint) or colour your eggbox with pencils and felt tips

4 Then get sticking! Glue on cutout fabric and papers for the skin/fur/feathers, and add details like eyes, beaks, ears and wings last of all

5 Cut out a strip of strong paper or thin card about 3cm wide x 24cm long to make a “handle” for your puppet

6 Staple or sticky tape one end of the strip to the inside edge of your eggbox creature

7 Loop your paper strip over the top of the eggbox

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 Attach the other end of the strip to the other inside edge of the eggbox, making sure you can fit your hand in between the strap and the top of the eggbox. Cut off any excess strip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9 Fill with chocolate eggs and give to your favourite person!