Activities! The making of...

 I shall keep the annotation to a minimum here as there is a lottttt to cover! It seemed very important to try all the activities I will looking at, to make sure they are applicable/appropriate for the target audience. I found them on websites/blogs focused around children's activities but I wanted to make sure and find ways of simplifying what I found and making them that bit more child friendly.






I don't think they would need to measure the space and cut the tshirt down, it's unlikely they would be quite as big as this one - XXXL - but as an activity is a tad fiddly but easy enough I would say and requires so little materials and method that it seems perfect! If they have lighter coloured tshirts they could then go on to decorate them, if they aren't already patterned. The lighter the colour also probably the easier to see clearly what they are doing!




I thought I would be able to use scissors for this but it was very difficult to do with scissors so I had to use a craft knife which obviously a child can't do that but it will be easy enough for them to design it and get either the teacher or parent to help cut it out and then have fun painting it;


I forgot to take photos as I painted it but I'm not the best with acrylic paint so it took a bit of time but looks pretty good. Not perfect but accessible for the target audience! I think I will probably come up with some designs that are my own rather than that from the blog, perhaps along with this one just edited a bit.

Unfortunately I did have to use acrylic paint for this as nothing else would paint such a material but I would say the work around to that is using it carefully and using pots with lids to avoid unnecessary waste with the paint drying out. Given that this is all about a starting point rather than changing everything and making it all perfect, I think featuring ways of making something quite commonly used that bit more environmentally focused is a good angle to take.



I made sure to use this bag as the main one due to it's broken handle - giving it another life!




As a process it's surprisingly easy & effective! I genuinely wasn’t sure if this would work but the plastic melted and binded together pretty much instantly.






Not perfect as a bookmark but it's really effective as a method and could look really good, if the correct colours were that bit nicer and a bit thiner in terms of the plastic itself. 

I was intrigued to see if I could create a motif... and I could!


The first vs. the last ^


A bit of a learning curve with this in figuring out how to properly plait the plastic and melt it all together but I sort of worked it out...


I wanted to recreate the plastic collage I did a little while back, just in a bit more of a solid method as the plastic did not want to be glued down! It worked really nicely, I just need a bit more of a colour variety.

The final outcomes;


Really works well!!! Less shiny at least.

Works very well a greeting card of sorts

Ehhh... technically works but needs to be thicker really.

Quite clear to see... a bit hit and miss with the seed paper... hmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjdeX0g34e0&ab_channel=CroutonCrackerjacks - making the seed planters 







Seed paper wasn't the best but good enough to use for this. The bottle works well as well, kind of can't believe I didn't think about doing this sooner (punching holes in the lid). A very easy was for the readers of the book to make themselves a makeshift watering can.







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