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SWEET BASKET

You need:

• Coloured card 

• Glue       

• Foamastic 

• Scissors    

• Cotton wool/straw
  

How to make

• Enlarge template to A4 size and copy onto coloured card,  including slit positions.
  
• Cut out basket shape and make slits where marked.
  
• Cut three strips from contrasting coloured card 7 ½ inches(19cm) long and ½inch (1.25cm) wide.
  
• Fold edges of basket in and starting at an end thread one strip in and then out finishing at the other end.  Now thread another strip in and out the other side starting by coming out of the same slit as you finished in.  Fold the edges of the strip back on the inside of the basket and glue in place.  These strips hold the basket together and should be on the outside of the basket on the corners.
  
• Glue the third strip in place as a handle.
  
• Cut out shapes of chicks or flowers from foam and glue to the ends of the basket.
  
• Place cotton wool or straw in the basket and fill with whatever seasonal gift or food you wish.
  

  CORK LIGHTHOUSE

A simple "cork" craft from the Maritimes... Glue your cork large end down, onto a small piece of blue felt. Glue a small piece of cotton around the bottom of your cork, and make it kind of wispy, like your cork is sitting on a cloud on top of the blue felt. By the way, these are actually waves.

Take a yellow, plastic bead: the kind that is shaped like a daisy or a six pointed star and attach to the top of your cork. (You can use a yellow headed pin to attach if you like.)

Now paint the windows and doors on your LIGHTHOUSE with a black felt pen.

VOILA!!! (Obviously, you can make your doors and windows first, if you like - might be easier.)

 A pin will attach to your camp-hat.

SHUTTLECOCKS  

You can make shuttlecocks (badminton birds) by putting feathers into the corks.

You need: 

• Three or more feathers of roughly equal size and stiffness 

How to make

• decorate the corks

• place feathers evenly in the top of the cork to make it into a bird.  

You can hit them with paddles, or just with your bare hand. 

These tend to be fun to play with since if the feathers are not exactly evenly spaced they fly off in unpredictable directions.

CRAFTS FROM NEW ZEALAND

BUBBLE MAKER

1) Take a polystyrene disposable cup.

2) Cut a circle out of Clear contact paper (sticky on one side – usually used to cover books)- bigger than the opening of the cup

3) Cut small slits in the edges so as to make the circle fit properly onto the cup and put over mouth of cup so it is sealed. Also put a rubber band around the top to keep Contact in place

4) Pierce a hole in the bottom of the cup and about 12 small holes in the  contact.

5) Dip the contact into a detergent solution

6) Blow through the bottom of the cup and watch the bubbles come out the other end

FRIENDSHIP STICK

Take an ice-cream stick

Draw on the top end a smiley face and at the bottom six bands- one green, then a space then red, yellow, black and white all together, then a space then green at the bottom. In the middle draw a

Brown cross.

This little stick means friendship of a special kind. It is a symbol of belonging to a living group. It can be hung on your camp hat or around your neck.

The symbolism serves as a personal communication to overcome barriers of language, race and culture.

Green at the bottom is for faith in God and one another. It is the basis of a happy and meaningful life.

The next four bands represent the races of the world; red, yellow, black and white. They stand close together indicating all people are equal.

The green band above the four races stands for the hope for the future and the brown cross shows how four races can come together and work for peace.

The smiling face is the result of friendship based on faith and unity. One eye is brown and the other is blue to represent all races and the red mouth in a smile means joy.

May the smile never be false. A smile is a trademark of a friend. To be greeted by the smiling face of a friend is one of the greatest joys we can experience. The face is crowned by girl guide blue indicating loyalty to guides.

KIWIFRUIT FRIDGE MAGNET  

You Need:

• green and brown felt,

• brown pompom,

• 1 pipe cleaner cut in half,

• magnet,

• PVA glue

• 2 wobbly eyes.

How to make 

1) Cut small leaf shapes (3 to 5) and a mouth out of green felt 

2) Cut 4 mitten shapes and 4 Gumboot shapes out of brown felt 

3) Paint seeds etc onto mouth with black and white paint (or felt tip pen) 

4) One either end of a pipecleaner glue 2 gumboots together with pipecleaner end inside 

5) Repeat with mittens on the other pipecleaner 

6)Glue legs, arms and finally magnet onto the back of the pompom 

7) Glue leaves, eyes and mouth onto the front of the pompom.

Magnetic Note holders

You need

• clothes peg

• coloured card or foam

• glue

• markers, glitter, fabric, lace (or any odd and ends you have) to decorate   

• magnet

How to make

• Cut a small shape from card or foam, just large enough to cover one side of the clothes-peg.

• Using markers, glue, glitter, fabric, lace etc decorate the shape.

• Glue the decorated shape to the front of the clothes-peg.

• Glue a (strong) magnet to the back side of the clothes-peg.

Put it on your fridge -- it can be used to clip notes, artwork, or recipes to the fridge.

Ideas for shapes:

•         Apples or other fruit

•         sunshine

•         stars

•         hearts

•         any cookie-cutter shape that is large enough

PAINTING IDEAS

BUBBLE PAINTING

  Give each person a straw (with a notch cut into its side) and a small container of soapy paint. 

Invite them to blow gently into the container until the bubbles slightly overflow the container. 

Place a piece of paper over the container and the bubbles will burst onto the paper, making a beautiful pattern.

Repeat several times with different colours.

        NOTE:  the notch in the side of the straw is to make it harder for

             young children to suck up paint instead of blowing out.

SPONGE PAINTING

Cut sponges into small pieces about one inch square. 

Use spring-type clothes-pegs for handles. 

Place thick paint in small containers (baking tins, shallow plastic cups, plastic cereal bowls). 

Provide large sheets of shelf paper or butcher paper for painting surfaces --> you can use these for wrapping paper when the paint is dry.

STRING PAINTING

  Apply string, wet with paint, to large pieces of paper to make graceful, free form designs. 

Strings with many different colours can be used for each design.

STAMP PRINTING

  Create your own stamps by cutting shapes or simple designs out of potatoes, pieces of sponge, wads of cloth, foam hair curlers, styrofoam, or pencil erasers.

  Stamp away to create pictures, messages, greeting cards, or wrapping paper.

SOCK DOLLS

AGE: Guides upwards

You need:

• one pair of socks (preferably new and brightly coloured )

• rice

• fiberfill stuffing

• assorted leftover craft items and scraps - the more, the better

• googly eyes (optional)

• hot glue gun and glue sticks

• tacky glue

How to make:

• Have the girls trade one of their socks with someone else. 

• One sock will be used for the body of the doll, and the second for making clothes or accessories.

• Pour approx. 1/2 cup of rice into the toe of the sock. 

• Your goal is to have enough rice in the bottom of the sock so the doll will stand up on its own. 

• Next start stuffing the rest of the sock with the fiberfill stuffing.

• When you get near the top of the sock, tie a tight knot in it.

• Now for the fun part!!  Decorate your doll with the craft items, and googly eyes.  Also, cutting the tassle of the sock (which was made by the knot) into strips, makes cool hair!

• Use the second and contrasting coloured sock to make clothes for your doll.

• Use your imagination and have fun!

• Remember, there is no right or wrong way to do this.

You'll be surprised with what your girls will come up with.  Each Guide will make a doll, but each one is uniquely different, just like the girls themselves.

This makes an excellent rainy day craft as it is time consuming

SQUISHY MOO

You need 

• Flour; 

• squeezy sauce bottle;

•  balloons, markers;

• ribbon; 

• eyes (optional)  

How to make:

1) Take a balloon, any shape will do.  

2) Fill a plastic squeezy sauce bottle with flour and squeeze the flour into the balloon. (Alternatively use a funnell and a fine skewer and poke the flour in.)  

3) Tie the balloon off in a knot and put ribbon around it in a bow.  

4) Using a felt tip pen, draw on a mouth, nose etc and glue on eyes.  

5) You can also tie the ribbon in the middle of the balloon and decorate bottom half with drawn on buttons etc.

PIERCED PAPER

You need:

• white paper;

•  tracing paper;

• cork;

• large sewing needle;

• pencil;

• tape;

• kitchen paper or tea-towel;

• stationery

How to make

1)       Draw a simple design on regular white paper (snowflake, stars, scallops etc).  

2)       Trace onto tracing paper.    

3)       Tape tracing paper to stationery (bought or homemade)  

4)       Place kitchen towel or tea-towel under paper  

5)       Insert eye end of needle into cork (use glue if necessary)  

6)       Use it to poke tiny holes in the paper through the tracing paper  

You can make bookmarks, place cards, gift tags, stationery