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Artist Activity Badge
Festive Christmas activities
! y t f a r c t Ge Letter to Cub Leade rs
This special edition Ch ristmas activity pack includes three festive Christmas activities, to help Cubs work towa rds their Artist Activity Badge. We’ve also included ad ditional creative activ ities perfect for keeping yo ur Group busy over th e festive season. Don’t forget to visit th e Hobbycraft Ideas Lib rary at www.hobbycraft.co .uk for a whole range of Christmas card making , wrapping and decora ting ideas.
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Contents Activities Things to make an d do 1. Design and mak e a Christmas card . 2. Make a poster ad vertising a Cub Scout event. 3. Design and build a model. Festive Christmas m akes 1. Christmas tree de corations 2. Advent calendar s 3. Festive baking Hobbycraft stores near you
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Things to make and do
Sending a handmade, Christmas card to you r family or friends is the perfect way to let them know you are thinking of them this Christmas.
What you need:
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Design ke and ma g in t a gree card
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Card blanks and paper in your choice of colours (red, white, green, silver or gold) Pom poms Felt / fabric Wobbly eyes Craft glue Scissors Felt markers
Instructions
1. Decide on your design. This could be a Christmas tree, reindeer, stocking or snowman. 2. Choose your colour theme. You migh t you want to work with traditional red, white and gree n or you could go for something more glitzy such as pink and gold. 3. Using your felt, poms, coloured pape r and wobbly eyes, design your card. It is a good idea to lay out your design before sticking anything dow n. 4. Stick your design to your card using craft glue. 5. Leave your design to dry.
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Large piece o f card (A1, A3, A4) Poster paints Ruler Markers Pencil Eraser
Instructions
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1. Find out the details of your event. When is it? W hat time will it start and end? Whe re is it being he 2. What addi ld? tional inform ation needs to included? Is th be ere a dress co de? Do guests need to bring anythi 3. Decide on ng? your design. It is a good idea sketch the de to sign on a sepa rate piece of paper before you get starte d. 4. Once you are happy with the design an layout of your d poster, use a pe ncil to mark out the areas on the poster where you wan the various el t ements to sit. 5. This is espe cially importan t for the area you will be ad s where ding details; yo u want to mak sure everything e fits in before you start pain and decoratin ting g. 6. Using your poster paints and markers st fill in your de art to sign. Outlinin g words with marker helps a black make them st and out more. 7. Wait for your paint to dry.
Things to make and do
Use ice-cream sticks to design and build a
model castle!
What you need:
1. 2. 3. 4.
Design and bu ild a mode l
Ice-cream sticks (plain or coloured) Craft glue Toothpicks Paper, paint, ribbon, beads, pom poms, sequins and glitter
Instructions:
Floor:
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1. Lay two large ice-cream sticks down flat, parallel to one another, about three inches apart. (Stick s 1 and 2 on diagram) 2. Place a line of glue along the top of sticks 1 and 2. 3. Place a number of large sticks horiz ontally on top of sticks 1 and 2. Leave to dry.
Castle Walls:
1. Lay two small ice-cream sticks down flat parallel to one another about 3 inches apart. 2. Place a line of glue along the two smal l sticks. 3. Place alternative large and small stick s horizontally on top of the two small sticks. 4. Repeat steps 1-4 until you have four walls. 5. Glue the walls to the floor and allow to dry.
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Ice-cream sticks can be used to make all sorts of fun and interesting models. From festive Christmas tre es and tiaras to boats and bicycles.
Festive Christmas Makes
Looking for more festive makes? We’ve pull ed together a few of our favourite Christmas projects, perf ect for Group or individual activity.
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Christmas pudding decoration
What you need:
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Styrofoam, ceramic or plastic bauble Acrylic paint–brown and white Paint brush Red and green stick–on felt
Instructions:
1. 2. 3.
Draw a wiggly line around the bauble abou ta third of the way down. Paint the top white and the bottom brow n, then leave to dry before repeating coats. Cut out small green felt holly leaves and red felt berries then stick to the top of the baub le.
Candy cone decoration
What you need:
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A4 Card Patterned/plain felt or fabric Ribbon Ric rac Small gold bells Double sided tape Needle and thread Scissors
Instructions:
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Using a plate or other round object (mea suring roughly 30cm) in diameter, draw a semi circle on a piece of card. Cut out. 2. Stick the semi-circle to a piece of fabric or felt and trim off the excess. 3. Measure and mark a central point on the base of the semi circle and roll into a cone, then secure in place with double-sided tape. 4. Cut a 15cm length of ribbon. Stick each end to the top edge of the outside of the cone at opposite points. 5. Trim the cone with a piece of ric rac, covering the ends of the ribbon handle. 6. Finally, sew a small bell to the cone’ s point and fill it with sweets.
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What you ne ed:
• Mini buck ets or –white, silver plastic cups and red • Cardboard numbers • Acrylic pai nt–green, red an • Red gingh am ribbon–9m d white m and 6mm • Glue
Instructions
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1. Paint the card numbers with acrylic paints, starting with 1-red, 2green and 3-white. 2. Glue the re d numbers to the silver buckets, gree n numbers to the white numbers and white to the re 3. Tie each bu d. cket to a leng th of ribbon, starting from number one. 4. Once all th e buckets are strung, fill wit goodies and ha h ng along a m antel piece or on the wal l.
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Festive Ch ristmas
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Why not spo il your famil y and friend them these s by making gorgeous sn owman cupca kes?
Festive bakes
What you ne ed:
• One batch o • Icing sugar f cupcakes* * • 6 tbsp edib le glitter* • White sug ar paste block • Orange fo od colouring • Writing ic ing tube–black • Rice paper * • Food colo uring pens
Instructions
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1. Make a ba tch of cupcak es using your favourite reci pe and allow to cool. Don’t forget to check for alle 2. Draw patt rgies. erns onto the ri ce pa per and cut into short stri ps to make sn owman scarve 3. Roll 1cm bl s. ocks of sugar paste into balls (one for each cake) and pres s a cocktail stic into the ball to k make a hole in which the carrot nose w ill sit. 4. Mix a smal l amount of or ange colourin paste into a pi g ece of sugar pa ste until it is a consistent shad e. Use this to make carrot no and push each ses in to the snowm 5. Mix the ic an head shap ing sugar with es . a little cold w it resembles do ater until uble cream. Co ncentrating on one cake at a time, spoon th e icing onto the cake and then sprinkle on a tiny amount of glitter. While the icing is still wet add the tw scarf pieces an o d a head, push ing it gently in the white icin to g. 6. Finally ad d black dots of writing icing eyes and mou for the th.
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