Brrr!

You may think that the Arctic is a freezing cold, lonely and barren place, with nothing more than snow and ice for miles on end.

But with our ideas you can use it as the setting for a Finger Tips olar Ad!enture arty!

"t#s a cool $groan!% idea, isn#t it&

'o mad by decorating the room with paper icicles.

They#re (ust semicircles of card of paper curled into a cone and dipped in clear white glitter for a frosty look, hung from a string or from pictures or shel!es on the wall!

)ow about these arctic snowflakes& They#re made from white paper, folded and snipped into shape, co!ered with clear glitter.

And strips of white and sil!er crepe paper twisted look great decorating the walls of a room.

For food, ser!e up fish fingers and chips! A staple diet for any arctic e*plorer!

+r why not make a sugar cube igloo filled with yummy ice cream&

And these are frostbites , marshmallows dipped in melted chocolate and rolled in coconut.

-elicious!

And for a cake idea, how about this arctic scene& "t#s (ust an ordinary sponge cake co!ered with arctic icing that looks like snow.

Finger Tips would like to thank Renshaw Scott for supplying the sugar paste used in decorating the cakes.

+utfit,wise, get your mates to dress in all white clothes for an icy, snowy effect!

For a game, how about

enguin .kittles&

"t#s great fun to play and !ery easy to make

The idea is to roll a snowball at the penguins, trying to knock o!er as many as you can.

"f you want to make the game, you#ll need to collect si* empty fla!oured milk bottles.

This shape is (ust perfect, but any small plastic bottles will do.

/ash each bottle out, then fill them all a third of the way up with sand, to make them bottom hea!y.

For the penguin#s beak, wrap a ping pong ball in a sheet of tabloid newspaper.

.crunch it round like this and stick some tape around the base of the ball, like this.

.nip off the rest of the newspaper and then stick the beak onto the top of the bottle like this!

The wings are made from cardboard bo* card.

Take a plastic bottle top and draw around it twice to lea!e a shape that looks like this.

0se this shape as a guideline to make the wing shape, like this.

1ake two of them for each penguin, and then cut them out.

The card feet are made in a similar way.

-raw the two circles and then make up a foot shape like the one you can see opposite.

1ake two for each penguin.

.tick the wings and feet to the body of each penguin.

/hen you#re happy with the position of the feet and wings, you can add some eyes.

For these, (ust scrunch up some sticky tape and stick into position.

2o!er each penguin in a layer of paper mach3.

aper mach3 is (ust strips of newspaper pasted on with a mi*ture of 4A glue and water in e5ual parts.

You could paint straight onto each penguin if you like, but paper mach3 gi!es it a nice te*ture. But if you do paint straight on, use acrylic paint or poster paint mi*ed with some 4A glue.

6ook at pictures of penguins in wildlife magazines, books or on the internet, to get them looking realistic.

/hen they#re done, they should look like this!

To enable you to score the game, cut out si* egg shapes and stick one on the base of each penguin.

Add numbers to each so that when they#re knocked o!er, you can keep score.

The person with the highest score wins.

Finally, you can use any ball you like, but a white one looks more like a snowball and is perfect!