Minions

We had a lazy afternoon watching Despicable Me on the sofa with a big snack bowl full of grapes, strawberries and blueberries. So we decided we would have some more fun making some minions of our own! They were really easy and used only basic materials from the craft box.

 

  

 

What you need:

Cardboard tube

Black card

White card

Coloured dot stickers

Blue felt

Yellow Paint

Gloopy glue

Tape

 

How we did it:

• We painted the toilet roll tubes with yellow paint mixed with gloopy glue. Leave them to dry.
• Stick a white circle onto a larger black circle (or two if doing two eyes), add a coloured sticker for the pupil. Stick to a strip of black card and glue to the tube.
• Cut a strip and a rectangle from blue felt. Stick to the tube to make dungarees.
• Cut out spiky hair from black card and add it to the inside top of the tube with tape.
• Play with new minion friend. Lily's is called Minnie Minion, and Daisy's is called Neil.

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St Patricks Day.

Happy St Patricks Day!!!

We have created some fabulous shamrock prints using a pepper. I got the idea here, and adapted it slightly to include using our fingers to paint, my two tiny crafters love getting messy with paint!

 
How to do it:
1. Cut a pepper in half and remove the seeds. (Mummy's job)

  
2. Dip it into some green paint and print onto paper, we used A3 plain paper.



I want to squash the pepper. Heehee!



I am sooo impressed with myself....

 
 3. Using your fingers add stems and details. 
 

Lets get messy......

 
4. Add some glitter, because every craft is better with glitter!

Glitter paint added a girly sparkle.

5. Add your name and give it to your favourite leprechaun.

The finished pictures!!!!

After the experience of using peppers to print with, Lily wanted to try some other fruits and vegetables, so we tried with apples, carrots and strawberries. You could try this with almost all fruits or vegetables......
 

Daisy had a try with some apple slices.



Lily printed with carrots then added leaves with a paint brush.



The finished carrot picture.



Enjoy
Lucy x