Kayleigh's Crafts - Make Your Own Play Dough

Hello!

Today we have a great activity that is not only a fun thing to make with your little ones, but also something fun to play with after! Homemade Play Dough!

To make this yourself, have a look at our YouTube video or follow this step-by-step guide.  

You will need:

• Flour (128g)
• Salt (64g)
• Cooking Oil (1tbsp)
• Water (240ml)
• Food Colouring (a few drops)

Step 1:

Add your flour, salt, cooking oil and water to a mixing bowl and mix together with a spoon. Stir until you have a doughy consistency. 

If your mixture is too doughy or stringy, slowly add some more water. If your mixture is too watery, slowly add more flour. 

Step 2:

Once your mixture has a nice, doughy texture, start kneading it and mixing with your hands. 

Step 3:

When your dough is ready. Decide how many colours you'd like to make and separate your dough into that many pieces. Roll these pieces into balls and flatten slightly to create a small bowl shape. Add a few drops of food colouring to the centre of each 'bowl' and gently fold the dough around the edges. 

This can get quite messy! If doing this by hand, it might be a good idea to wear gloves! I would recommend putting your dough into a small bowl and mixing your food colouring with a spoon.

Step 4:

Leave the dough for a few minutes with the food colouring to set. If your mixture has become a bit too sticky from the food colouring, add a large pinch of salt and fold into your dough. 

When you're done... 

Have a think of some things you could add to your dough to make it a little bit more fun. How about adding some glitter or some sprinkles? Can you use some stamps to make some patterns?

**********

We would love to see your finished crafts! 

Please share you art with us by using the hashtag:

#KayleighsCrafts

and by tagging Creative Eye and Norden Farm.

**********

Norden Farm Centre for the Arts is a registered charity, providing access to the arts for the whole community. 

It costs over £600,000 a year to run Norden Farm and your donation will help to keep the work going.

If you are in a position to make a donation and help us remain a vital part of the community, we would be enormously grateful.

Donate here

Kayleigh's Crafts - Make Your Own Pasta Rainbow

Hello!

With children around the UK putting rainbows in their windows for NHS staff and for children to 'rainbow hunt' on their daily walks, we thought it would be fun to show you how to make a rainbow pasta picture!

To make this yourself, have a look at our YouTube video or follow this step-by-step guide.  

You will need:

• Rainbow Template
• Pasta (We used Penne)
• Paint
• Glue (PVA and Stick)
• Cotton Wool

Step 1:

Download our Rainbow Template here. You can design your own rainbow template with as many rainbow stripes as you like. Don't forget to add the clouds at the each end!

Step 2:

Add some pasta to a bowl with your choice of paint. Mix the paint until your pasta has a nice, even coverage. Leave your painted pasta overnight to dry. 

Step 3:

Take your glue stick and glue one cloud. Take the cotton wool and stick small clumps onto your cloud (trying to stay in the lines!). Repeat for the second cloud.  

Step 4:

Take your first batch of coloured pasta. Take your PVA glue and glue one side of your pasta piece. Carefully place your pasta piece in between the lines of your rainbow. Continue with your first colour until your rainbow slice is filled. Repeat this process with your other colours. 

Step 5 (Optional):

If you find your picture a little too heavy to hang. Take some cardboard and cut it to an A4 size. Glue down your picture to the cardboard to reinforce your picture. 

When you're done... 

Have a think of other types of pasta you could use for your rainbow? Can you think of other items around your house that is colourful that could be glued onto your rainbow? 

**********

We would love to see your finished crafts! 

Please share you art with us by using the hashtag:

#KayleighsCrafts

and by tagging Creative Eye and Norden Farm.

**********

Norden Farm Centre for the Arts is a registered charity, providing access to the arts for the whole community. 

It costs over £600,000 a year to run Norden Farm and your donation will help to keep the work going.

If you are in a position to make a donation and help us remain a vital part of the community, we would be enormously grateful.

Donate here

Kayleigh's Crafts - Make Your Own Marshmallow Printed Caterpillar

Hello!

This is a lovely springtime craft for you, a marshmallow printed caterpillar!

To make this yourself, have a look at our YouTube video or follow this step-by-step guide.  

You will need:

• Paint
• Paper
• Pen
• Marshmallows (big and mini)
• Glue (optional)

Step 1:

Take a plain bit of paper and draw a background for your caterpillar. Our picture is a blue painted background for the sky with glued shredded paper for the grass. 

Step 2:

Take a big marshmallow and dip it into your green paint. Wipe any drips and then stamp the paint onto your paper. Repeat this step until you have your design caterpillar length. We went for 5 green circles for the body. 

Step 3:

Take a clean big marshmallow and dip it into your red paint. Wipe any drips and then stamp once at the end of your caterpillar body, to create the head. 

Step 4:

Take a small marshmallow and dip it into the green paint. Wipe any drips and then stamp 2 'legs' to every 1 large body segment. 

Step 5:

Once the caterpillar is dry, take a pen and draw on your face and some antennae.  

When you're done... 

Left over marshmallows? Why not glue them above your caterpillar to create some clouds? We used PVA glue to attach 5 mini marshmallows in the pattern below to create our clouds:

Instead of marshmallows, what else can you use to as a stamp for your caterpillar?

**********

We would love to see your finished crafts! 

Please share you art with us by using the hashtag:

#KayleighsCrafts

and by tagging Creative Eye and Norden Farm.

**********

Norden Farm Centre for the Arts is a registered charity, providing access to the arts for the whole community. 

It costs over £600,000 a year to run Norden Farm and your donation will help to keep the work going.

If you are in a position to make a donation and help us remain a vital part of the community, we would be enormously grateful.

Donate here

Kayleigh's Crafts - Make Your Own Paint

Today we are making some homemade paint. We have 4 different recipes below and you can see how they turned out in our YouTube video. 

We have put measurements for each paint but we found it much easier (and fun!) to add each ingredient slowly and add more as required to create the amount of paint needed. 

Each paint is smooth to paint with and dries very quickly when used on paper. 

Paint 1:

What do you need?

White Flour (340g)

Water (240ml)

Salt (240g)

Food Colouring

How to:

Slowly add your flour, water and salt to a mixing bowl and stir. If your mixture is too watery, add more salt or flour. If you're mixture is too thick, add more water. 

Stir all the lumps out so your mixture is smooth.

Add a few drops your chosen colour of food colouring and stir.

**********

Paint 2:

What do you need?

Barcarbonate of Soda (4tbsp)

Corn Flour (2tbsp)
Water (100ml)

Food Colouring

How to:

Slowly add your Barcarbonate of Soda, Corn Flour/Starch and water to a mixing bowl and stir. 

Corn Flour is an hardening agent so you will feel some resistance when mixing, but keep stirring until your mixture is smooth. 


Add a few drops your chosen colour of food colouring and stir.

**********

Paint 3:

What do you need?

PVA Glue

Food Colouring

How to:

Add some PVA glue and a few drops your chosen colour of food colouring and stir. Add as much PVA glue as you need to paint with. Start small and make more paint as needed. 

This paint is sticky and has a shine to it. 

**********

Paint 4:

What do you need?

Washing Up Liquid

Food Colouring

How to:

Add some washing up liquid and a few drops your chosen colour of food colouring and stir. Add as much washing up liquid as you need to paint with. Start small and make more paint as needed. 

**********

We would love to see your finished crafts! 

Please share you art with us by using the hashtag:

#KayleighsCrafts

and by tagging Creative Eye and Norden Farm.

**********

Norden Farm Centre for the Arts is a registered charity, providing access to the arts for the whole community. 

It costs over £600,000 a year to run Norden Farm and your donation will help to keep the work going.

If you are in a position to make a donation and help us remain a vital part of the community, we would be enormously grateful.

Donate here

Kayleigh's Crafts - Make Your Own Chick Collage

Hello!

For Easter we are making this adorable chick collage!

To make this yourself, have a look at our YouTube video or follow this step-by-step guide.  

You will need:

• Chick Template (Download here)
• Scissors
• Something to colour with (pens, pencils, paint etc)
• Glue (PVA or Stick)
• Tissue Paper

Step 1:

Download and print the chick template. 

If you're unable to print the template then draw out some shapes like the ones below: 

• A large egg shape to be your chick's body
• x2 large oval 'sausage shapes' for the wings
• x2 smaller oval 'sausage shapes' for the feet
• x2 circles for the eyes
• x1 triangle for the beak

Step 2:

Colour in the beak, feet and wings. The eyes can be left white or can be coloured in. 

Once these shapes are coloured in, cut them out and put them to one side.

Step 3:

Take a small piece of tissue paper and scrunch it up into a small, rough ball. 

Glue a small part inside your chick body, make sure not to glue the whole body as your glue will dry up too quickly! 

Glue down your tissue ball and repeat until the whole chick body is covered.

Step 4:

Take the beak, feet, eyes and wings you cut out earlier and place them in position over your chick body. Once you're happy with the placement, glue each piece down on the top of your tissue paper. 

When you're done... 

Have a think about what other things you can use for your collage. See what you have around the house, could you use magazines or newspaper? Ribbon or pom poms? 

Instead of tissue paper, we used yellow feathers for this chick:  

**********

We would love to see your finished crafts! 

Please share you art with us by using the hashtag:

#KayleighsCrafts

and by tagging Creative Eye and Norden Farm.

**********

Norden Farm Centre for the Arts is a registered charity, providing access to the arts for the whole community. 

It costs over £600,000 a year to run Norden Farm and your donation will help to keep the work going.

If you are in a position to make a donation and help us remain a vital part of the community, we would be enormously grateful.

Donate here

Introducing Kayleigh's Crafts!

Introducing... Kayleigh's Crafts!

While the UK is in isolation and missing out on fun family activities outside the home, Creative Eye and Norden Farm Centre for the Arts have partnered together to bring some of those activities to you in your own home. 

Free, crafty fun for all the family brought to you by Kayleigh’s Crafts! 

A new episode coming every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

Each online video tutorial will feature a craft that can be made with items found around the home or that can be picked up as part of your essential supermarket shop while in isolation. 

Each video is also accompanied by a step-by-step ‘how to’ blog post (right here!) for each craft to follow along at a slower pace. 

Tune in this Saturday (11th April 2020) for the first episode of Kayleigh’s Crafts.

***

How to: Dinosaur Face Paint

Hi! 

Today we are showing you our step-by-step facepainting guide to a (kind of) full face Dinosaur.

Step 1

Take a light coloured face paint and cover your face with as many layers as needed to get a nice, even coverage. I used about 3/4 layers.

We didn't go for a full face but opted for an almost full 'mask' look. (Think like The Phantom of the Opera mask. The one on the poster rather than his face!)

We went up to the upper lip line and curved around the cheeks to create a 'mask' look. 

Step 2

Take a darker shade of green and begins to place your 'spots'. 

You don't want to have perfect shapes, think jagged ovals and curved rectangles. 

These can be placed anywhere on your face to create the effect. 

I put them on both cheeks and the forehead, going around the eyes. I put the odd few around the nose too.

Then add lines to your nose. I did 3 thick lines but you could add smaller lines around the nose as well. 

Step 3

Take another shade of green that isn't too similar to your light or dark paint. I used a 'khaki' colour here. 

Do smaller dots and ovals in the gaps and around your larger 'spots'. Keep them sparse and random. 

Then using a small brush, go around some of the edges of your larger 'spots' and fill in slightly. Make sure you fade the colour as best as you can so it isn't too 'block-y'.  

This gives extra depth to your spots. 

Step 4

Our optional step if you want to add a bit of glam to your dinosaur look!

Add some green glitter to some of your 'spots', keeping it random so you haven't got too many in the same area.

We also took a small eyeshadow blender brush and some glitter eyeshadow and placed this on some of the 'spots' too for some extra shimmer. 

Step 5

Take your eyeshadow blender brush and some dark green eyeshadow and layer it over your eyelids up to your brow bone (not the eyebrow itself). 

Fade this out around the edges to create a bit of a smokey eye and so that there are no harsh lines. 

All Done!

Add some Dino accessories, and your look is complete! 

See our video process below: