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Create Your Own Rub Ons
What you need:
 A transparency (such as an OHP sheet)
A computer and printer
Ice block stick
Let the children create a design or message on the computer then place the transparency in the printer. Select print and then select properties and click mirror image. This will print the design or message so that it appears accurately on the transparency. Then print. Leave for at least 10 minutes to dry.
Place the transparency on your project printed side down, be careful not to move the transparency until you have finished as it may smudge or double image. Rub over the design or message with the stick. Peel the transparency carefully away from the card and the image will be transferred to your project. The transparency can be cleaned with a tissue and reused.
Flower Power Using Bases Of Plastic Pump Bottles
What you need
A plastic bottle cut about 3 – 5 cm from the base part or longer depending on the size of the petals you want.
Length of bamboo, rolled up magazine for coat hanger wire
Make a hole in the centre of the base. Shape the plastic edge into petals. Have ready a length of bamboo/rolled up magazine or wire form a coat hanger. Guide a 2cm section of the stick through the central hole. Take a circular cut piece of yellow/white sponge (we used some cheap kitchen sponges cut into circles). Make a hole in the centre and fit it over the top of the stick and then glue into position. Glue underneath to secure. Paint with poster paints mixed with PVA. These will crack off eventually, but look nice as display pieces while they last.
Toothpaste Art Box
What you need:
9 Empty toothpaste cardboard containers
Glue
Scissors
Pencil
Ruler
Poster paint
Paintbrush
Cut all the containers in half, leaving the closed bases intact. Glue one side of each of them and stick them together to make a cube (can use double sided tape) Paint the outside of the containers and store artwork pencils, pens, crayons in them. Make the boxes different sizes so that they appear in tiered style if preferred. These look really great painted black and then with gold or silver patterns or animal type skin patterns.
Flexi-wire Fun
You need some flexible thinner jewellery type wire or simple electrical fuse wire. Thread wire inside a length of different coloured plastic scoobies and have fun. You can create wonderful bracelets, sculptures etc. Glow in the dark scoobies were really popular.
Nail Polish Marbling
Take nail polish and splash several drops onto a tray of water. You can use recycled meat trays from the supermarket. The polish slides out onto the water, but floats. Lay a piece of heavyweight paper such as cartridge paper and gently lift off. Another effect is to use clear nail polish and use dark paper for a delicate rainbow of colour.
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