Find out how

to make me
into a puppet
on page 36!

2
Play with ART
templates

Trace or copy these templates

onto thick paper and cut them out. 3
Play with
AR T
 For the grown-ups:
This book is full of hands-on arty ideas to help children explore their
creativity as they experiment with different materials. For each creative media
section, there is a handy “tools needed” catalogue and 6+ projects to try. Just lay
out one set of materials at a time, then your child is ready to go – and parents only
need to clean up once!

Safety Mess
Children should be supervised at all times when doing these projects. They may aler t!
need help with some of the trickier activities such as cutting cardboard.
Always ensure your child uses non-toxic paints and materials.

Mess alert!
Some of the projects will make a mess (that’s part of the fun)! Protect the area
where your child is creating – or even encourage them to do the projects outside.
Wearing old clothes or an apron is advisable.

We made this book:

Editor Violet Peto

Senior Designer and Illustrator Rachael Parfitt Hunt
Designer and Illustrator Rachael Hare
Photographer Lol Johnson
Additional Photography Dave King
Design Assistance Eleanor Bates, Charlotte Milner
Jacket Designer Rachael Parfitt Hunt
Violet Peto Rachael Parfitt Hunt
Jacket Co-ordinator Francesca Young
Producer, Pre-production Rebecca Fallowfield
Producer John Casey
Managing Editor Penny Smith
Managing Art Editor Mabel Chan
Publisher Mary Ling
Art Director Jane Bull

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Dorling Kindersley Limited
80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL
Copyright © 2018 Dorling Kindersley Limited
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Rachael H are Lol Johnson

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ISBN: 978-0-2413-0182-1

Printed in China

A big thank you to all the models – Edie Arnold, Oscar Arnold, Archer Brandon,
Betty Johnson, and Lola Johnson

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 Contents
8 Painting and printing 34 Fan-tastic
10 Mix the colours up! 36 Shadow puppets
12 Printing gallery 38 Stained glass elephant
14 Fruit and veg fun 40 Wet paper art
16 Block buddies 42 Drawing and colouring
18 Fingerprinting gallery 44 Animal doodles
20 Handy hands! 46 Chalk art
22 Funny feet! 48 Scratch art magic!
24 Pop! Art 50 Make and create
26 Masking out 51 Colour matching game
28 Paper crafts 52 A tower of tubes
29 Paper folding 54 Rainbow mobile
30 Paper cutting 56 Magical unicorn
31 Paper sculpture 58 Shadow theatre
32 Paper caterpillars 60 Cardboard collage
 Pain t i n g and
t i n g
pri n
Experiment with paint to create different effects.
Here’s what you need:

Paper

What shall
Roller Roller tray
we paint?

Funnel

Canvas (or thick paper) Masking tape Printing inks

Felt-tip pen
Glue
Pencils

Clear zip-up
plastic bag Non-toxic
8 paint Paintbrushes
 T!

EE
Your F
Car
dbo Balloons
ard
tub
es
Balloon pump
Bubble wrap
Sponge
String
Wooden blocks
er
Flow s Top tip
Your h
an
feet ar ds and
e
printin great
Fruit and veg
g tools
!
Peg

Pa Pom-pom
p er
plates ur HANDS
Yo ! FINGERS!
r
ou
Y

What colours
shall we
choose?
Washable plastic toys
9
 M i x t h e
colours up!
Do you know how to make new colours?
Primary colours
L OW E
RED YEL BLU

You can make new colours primary colours.

by mixing the three main
Try these mixtures:

N GE
ORA

RED YELLOW

E N
GRE

YELLOW BLUE

PLE
PUR

BLUE RED
10
Make your own colour wheel PA
INT

1 2 orange
red yellow

purple green
blue

CTIONS Top tip

SE at sit
DRAW Colours th er on
h elp e a c h o t h
adul t t o next to
s k a n p l ate e c o lo u r wheel go
A e r th
i v i d e a pap ns. e ll t o g e t her.
you d e c t i o w
s i x e qual s orange
into

ye
r ed

llo
w
This colour wheel
shows the
six main colours.
e en
purp

gr
le

See how to turn your colour

wheel into a game on page 51.
blue 11
 Printing gallery
lo t s o f p a in t m a rk s u s ing
Create
.
different printing tools
Here are some ideas: Bubble wrap feet

d
an m
eg -po

P
m

po
he els
o y w
T
Flower Bubble wrap
What other
Tube washable plastic
toys can
roar!
you use?
roar!

Sponge

e lery
C O ra n g Dino
p rints!
e

t
foo

12 Hand
 Make your own printing blocks!
Tools needed: 1

Wooden Foam or thick String

blocks card shapes GLUE
You can find heart and
star templates at the
back of the book. Glue your foam
shapes onto
wooden blocks.
Glue and
paintbrush Roller and paints
Using a roller,
2 3 roll paint
over your
.
L printing blocks
ROL

WR 4
AP
PRESS

T
PRIN
To make a string print, e r ns and
re n t p a t t
wrap string around Print diffe g paper
ak e w r a p p in
a wooden block. shapes to m
or cards. 13
 Fruit and veg fun
Use fruit and veg to make amazing art.
Tools needed:

Fruits and vegetables

Paper
Non-toxic
paint Pencil Paintbrush

1 Prin Top ti
tac p
hang o o lp
on t oster to
he w
all.
INT
PA

e f r u i t o r veg in
Cut th e f l a t side.
ain t t h
half and p
14
 2 shapes
N
FU

Use a pencil to

SS give me eyes

PRE
and a mouth.

a rt p ri n t in g ! M a k e lots of
St
terns.
lovely, colourful pat

TY pattern
ET s
PR

15
 B l o c k buddies
Make colourful people by painting with
wooden blo
cks and potatoes.
ools needed:
T
Paper and
s
coloured pencil Halved Wooden blocks
potato

Paintbrush
1 Use other
sides of the
block for
different colours.
PRESS

lock.
Paint the side of a b
er for
Press down onto pap
the bodies.
16
Why not use
2
blocks to give
me arms and
legs, too?

USH
P

OW
D
N

Top tip Use a halved potato to make

Use dif
fer the head shapes. When dry,
potato ent sized
es draw on funny faces.
and sm for big
all hea
ds.

17
 Fingerprinting
gallery
r f i n g e r s a n d ink
u
You can use yo vellous pictures.
o m a k e m a n y mar
Use a pen
to give us
t
funny faces.

Tools needed:
Paper

Fingers

Felt-tip pen
Mess
aler t
!

Printing inks
, a n d t h e n o n t o paper.
r f in g e r o n the ink pad
Press y o u
t h e p r in t s c o m e to life.
ke
Use a pen to ma
18
 Top
Use t
fing ip
er
to m prints
colo a
urfu ke
l car
ds.

Happy, sad, silly or glad… make your prints into

a range of fun faces, animals, or flowers.

bees
flower
g b
n ody
lo
e a
Mak

butterfly

o try
Don’t forget t
oo!
dinosaur caterpillar a thumbprint t
19
 Hello! I’m made
Fish
out of lots Hedgehog
of handprints.

Use your hands to make funny animals!

Hand ands!
h
What anim
a
can you cr ls
eate?
Let your
imaginatio
n
run wild!
y

ss
Meler t!
a

Paint your hands

and press them
onto paper.

20
 ea
Once the prints are dry, us Flam
ingo
pencil to draw on eyes and
other features.

i c k en
Ch d
an Han
k Mak dy h
chic e
into your pi
int
a ct
han whole z ure I have hands
dpri
nt a oo of for feet!
nima
t ls!
p h an
Ele

21
 Funny feet! 1
Make mess-free clean feet art
using paint inside a bag.
Tools needed:
Clear zip-up
plastic bag
Paints
SLIDE

Blob paint onto

your paper. Carefully
slide the paper into
Paper the bag.

e
f e e t in p a in t a n d m ake Be
Dip y o u r
messy feet footprint art! Mes
aler s

Use a pencil to turn the

t!

.
footprints into pictures

Flip-flops
Feel the paint
squelch
between
your toes!
STO
22 MP!
Unicorn
 2 3
Squeeze q u i s h and
S
out the air q u a s h your
s
and zip up e e t o v er the
f
the bag. bag!
plastic

LCH!
SQUISH UE
! SQ

Now take out the piece of paper and

look at your masterpiece.

hoot! grrr!
t
hoo !

Be
w l Lion ar
O Cat
p
Lizard t ripy rint.
s
Try a

Butterfly 23
 Pop! Art
Splatter your canvas and make some
seriously splashy art!
Tools needed: Mess
aler t!

ity
This activ
Funnel is MESSY
, so
do
Balloons it’s best to
it outside!
Non-toxic
Balloon pump Masking paint Canvas
tape (or thick paper)
2
1 PUMP
FILL
IT UP
IT UP

Take out the f

e f u n n e l into a unnel
Put th and wipe away
o n a n d p our in any paint
ballo from the ballo
. F i l l u p about on before
paint pumping it up.
f t h e b a lloon. Ask an adult
hal to help you.
24
 ns
Fill more balloo
with other colo
urs. 4
3 POP!

WN
DO
ST I C K I T

With adult he
lp, POP
the taped-do
wn
then stick balloons using
Tie the balloon, a pencil.
vas or
it onto your can Top
paper with tape
. Try po tip
urin
colour g two
si
one ba nto
AT!
SPL
lloon.

e
Remove the tap
n d d e f la t e d b a lloons.
a

OSH!
SPL 25
 Mask i n g out
This is when you stick down tape or shapes
and paint over and around them.

Top tip
Tools needed: Try masking out with
the shapes you cut out
in the activity
on page 36.

Canvas
(or thick paper)

Paints

Masking tape

Paintbrush
26
1
2

Stick down criss-crossing s.

Paint your canva
lines of masking tape on u
Don’t worry if yo
your canvas. in t o n t o p o f t h e tape.
pa

3
When the paint is dry,
peel away the tape to reveal
a picture of lines and shapes.

27
 Pap e r c ra f t
Find out some of the clever things
Paper:
yo
cut it, u can
fold it
you can do with paper.
wet it, ,
shine li
g
Here are the tools you’ll need:
throug ht
h it . . .

c ard Tissue and Water spray

Paper and
crepe paper bottle

Ruler
Wooden pegs
rs
Pipe cleane
Masking tape
Googly eyes Ribbons
Pencils
You also
need
a torch! Glue Felt-tip pen
Glue stick

28 Straws Scissors
 Paper folding
Transform paper into 3D shapes with folds and curls.

FOLD NEAR

EDGE

Pleats Use a ruler to fold near

the edge of your paper.
e
Take the ruler out of th
er,
fold, turn the paper ov
WRAP a
and fold again in the
same way. Repeat.

PENCIL

Wrap a strip of paper Curls

around a pencil.
GLUE
the ENDS

Rolls
Link rolls to
make paper chains. 29
 Paper cutting
You can make some great paper effects
with just a few snips here and there!

SNIP ake a FRINGE

to m

one
Make little snips along
Fringes ’t cut
edge of some paper. Don
side.
all the way to the other
o
w a s piral t .
Dra
c u t it out
ou
help y
CUT to

make a SPIRAL
Spirals
Cut into the edge of a
circle and keep cutting
Draw eyes on the
middle of your spiral round and round working
to make it into towards the middle.
a curly snake!

30
 Pap e r sculpture
Use your folding and cutting techniques to
create a colourful paper sculpture.

paper creations.
your What other
er paper shapes
ath can you make?
G

k c ard.
h ic
ot
Glue your
tn

pa
...o

pe
r bits...

31
 a p e r
P caterpillars
Make these cute ca rpillars with
te
just a bit of folding and sticking!

ols needed:
To Strips
of coloured paper

Pencil

Googly eyes

LAP
VER
O
Glue p e with
Scis n er sh a
iece
sors a c o r O n e p
Make o f p a per. h er.
tr i p s e o t
two s v e r l a p th
e e d s to o
n

32 Pipe cleaners
2 3
Fold over

Now Keep fold

ing until y
fold run out o ou
up f paper.

Fold the
undernea
over the th piece Top tip
other st Always
fold the rip. Now
other pie
ce up and undern fold the
over in t eath p
he same iece.
way.
Pipe cleaner
antennae e a f a c e fo r
k
N ow m a e c r i t t e r s.
yo u r l i t t l
You have a
lovely smile!
e e y e s and
Gl u
e n n a e o nto a
ant p aper,
ie c e o f
ly square p a s mile.
Goog and dra
w o n
eyes
f a c e t o one
ur
Stick yo b ody.
f t h e
end o

33
 Fan -tastic!
Keep cool on a hot day with these funny face fans.

eded:
ls ne
To o
Pipe cleaners Wooden Ribbons
Coloured p pegs
aper
Coloured
pencils Glue Scissors Ruler
stick
1 2

Fold a piece of paper

Draw an eye onto your
using the pleating
pleated paper.
technique on page 29.

34
 3 Fold and decorate
another piece of paper
in the same way.

Pinch together the

4 bottom edges of
5 Cut out a circle to make
a nose. Glue it in the
both pieces of paper middle joining both
and slot into a peg. pieces of paper.

6
Use a pipe
Top tip cleaner to help
These fans make hold the peg closed.
great presents.
Just add ribbons
and gift tags.
35
 Shadow puppets
e a s h a d o w s c e n e w it h these
Crea t
ppets.
easy-to-make paper pu
Tools needed: White pencil

Masking Scissors Black paper Straws

1 tape
Top tip
Find te
at the mpla
front tes
of the and ba
book t ck
your p o ma
uppets ke
.

Draw a puppet shape

onto black paper
36 and cut it out.
2

Attach a straw handle

with tape.

ear
Hold us up n
a wall and
h at us.
shine a torc
our
Can you see
shadows?

37
 Stained glass
elephant
a n t in a w in d ow
h
Hang this elep ht shines through
What other
stained glass
animals shall
e h o w t h e s u nlig
we make? and se t is s u e p aper.
the t h in

Tools needed:
Black card rip s
er s t
pa p
ss u e
Ti

Scissors
Glue stick

en
Felt-tip p
t h e f r o n t cover
t h e s t e n cil from e p hant.
Use y o u r e l
t h e b o o k to make
White pencil of
38
1 2
CUT OUT STICK

DOWN
t tissue
Draw round the elephan Stick your strips of
help
shape. Ask an adult to paper over the
you cut it out. le.
elephant-shaped ho
Draw an eye and
nt Top tip
an ear on your elepha
3 with a black felt-tip
pen. Decora
te
picture your
screwe with
d-up pi
of tiss ece
ue pap s
er.

39
 Wet paperar t
See how the colours mix and run when you
spray water onto crepe paper.
Tools needed:

White paper Water spray Crepe paper cut

or card bottle into shapes

1 2
ADD crepe shapes

squirt!
squi
r t!

Spray water onto your Place your coloured

white paper. shapes on the wet paper.
40
 3

To
Use lot p tip
s
wet cr of layers of
epe pa
make p
your p er to
extra ict
colour ure
ful.
how
Look at s
ur
the colo e
on
run into
.
another

4 When you have filled

the white paper with
coloured shapes, spray
more water on top.

Why not use

your creation
as wrapping
paper?

When the crepe paper

pieces are almost dry,
peel them off.

41
D r a w i n g and
co l o u ri n g
Practise your drawing skills and discover how
What sort of to create different colouring effects.
picture shall

Tools needed:
we draw?

Paintbrush

Lollipop stick Black

paint
Chalks
P en
cils Paper plate Washing-up
liquid

Felt-tip pens Black and

white paper

Crayons
 Use pencils, pens, crayons, or chalks
to make lots of different marks!

Shading Circles Sparkle Small circles Dots

Zigzags Spiral Cross-hatching Dashes

Use a squiggle
to draw
my hair!

Wiggles Squiggles
il
Keep your penc
Draw a picture on the paper,
with just one line. and don’t stop
!

43
 Animal doodles
Learn to draw animals with these
Practise the
shapes on scrap
paper first.

simple steps. Build your picture

shape by shape.

1 Sausage dog
Draw a long
sausage shape.

2
Now add a potato-
shaped head, a tail,
and four legs.

3
Finish off by
adding ears,
claws, and a face.
All thi
s ta
sausag lk of
e
makin s is
g me
hungr
y!

44
 Sleepy cat
1 2

Draw a curved Now add a round head.

bean shape.

3 4

Next, draw four To finish, add ears,

legs and a tail. claws, and a face. Don’t
forget the whiskers!

Singing bird
1 2 3

Draw a Next add leaf-shaped Finally, give your bird

balloon shape. feathers for a tail, and a legs, eyes, feet – and a
small balloon-shaped wing. beak so it can sing!
45
 C h a l k art
Create your own
cheeky chalky aliens.
What plan
et are they from?

ing chalk on
u bb its
y r si
T r
de
.

46
 Chalk
lo
on bl oks great
Try d
ack p
ap
rawin er.
Top tip
k
pave
ment g on Go over the top of chal
marks with a watery
s too
!

paintbrush to blend the

chalk lines.

lien
Give your a
nd a
antennae a
with
funny face
.
lots of eyes

I don’t
understand
his language...

BUB
I
“BURL
FOM
MIT!
”

Chalk 47
 Scratch art
magic!
r a s if b y m a g ic w it h
See colours appe a
WOW!
c r a t c h a r t d r a w in g s.
It must
be magic! s

Tools needed:
Paintbrush llipop
Scratch with a lo
of
stick or the end
a pencil

Lollipop stick
Black or a pencil
Paint
Dollop
washin of Plate
g-up
liquid

Paper
Crayons

48
 2
1

Mix together th
e black paint
and washing-up
liquid. Paint
n onto over your crayo
Colour a patter n picture
.
a piece of paper and leave to dry
.
rs.
Use lots of colou

Top tip
3 The more
colours
you use, th
e mo
Scratch a magical yo re
u
drawing picture wil r
l look!
into the
black paint.

Lollipop
stick

49
 Ma k e and
t e
cr e a
Turn ordinary household items into amazing art.

50
Colou r m a t c h i n g g a m e
c t is e y o u r c o lo u rs w it h this fun
P ra
o u ’l l n ee d y o u r c o lo u r w h eel
game. Y
from page 11.
1 2
or
Go on a hunt f
ts!
coloured objec

n
Cut out each sectio
el.
of your colour whe

Match your objects So

to the colour of
each section.
colourful!
51
 A tower of tubes
Paint cardboard tubes and slot them
together to make a towering fort.
How high
can you build
your towers?

52
 1

g h t c olou
i

br

rs
s in

.
u be
Cut cardboard tubes

rt
to different heights.

Pain t y ou
2

u t t w o slits
C
t t h e t op and
a
, and
bottom
y o u r t ubes
slot
r.
togethe

Add windows
and patterns with
white paint.
53
 ainbow mobile
R C r ea t e a colourful cardboard mobile.
Tools needed:
Red Orange Yellow Lollipop stick String

Felt-tip pen
Green Blue Indigo Violet
Wooden
Paints Scissors beads

Corrugated
Paintbrush cardboard
2
Draw eight arches
1 on a piece
of cardboard.

CUT
Ask an adult
to help you
cut along the
lines.
You should b
e left with
seven arches.
54
 Lollip
op st
3 4 ick

PAINT
EAD
HR
T ring
t

s
Ask a
you po n adult to
e s t h e s even ke a le help
e arch throu ngth
Paint th e r a i nbow in gh th
e
of str
ing
f t h t o p of e
colours o w n below.
from
bigge ach ar
h o st to
the orde
r s smalle ch
st.

5
THREA
D

Thread so
me
beads on t
he
bottom of
the string
to weigh it
Top tip down.
Ask an ad not
ult to Tie a k
help you h
an here. Watch
your mob g i
ile
your bedr in
oom.
Tie a
knot
spin! t
here.
55
 Magical nicorn
Find head, horn
and ear templa
at the back f
o
t
,
es
u Make your own magical, fantastical
the book.
unicorn hobbyhorse!

Turn to page 30
to see how to
fringe your card.
Tools needed:
Stapler
Glue
stick
Horn cut
Fringed coloured card from sparkly card

h apes
ea d s
h
Sciss Horse
ors
Cut two head
shapes out of
Penc white card.
il

Ears

Paintbrush Long cardboard tub

e
and paint

56
1 2 of both head
our G lue around the edges
INT y UBE n ot t h e b ot t om of the neck.
A T shapes bu t
P
rdboard rd , ea rs , a nd horn
ca Stick the fr in g ed ca
between the two.

t y o u r t u be in a
Pain
r ig h t c o lo ur. This
nice b s h andle.
u n ic o r n ’
will be your

a w me a me
Dr e
a n d giv rd
face nged ca
fri ashes.
eyel

es
t h e t w o head shap
Staple f the neck
.
3 at each
Pu s h t h
c
e
o r
t
n
u
e r o
be up thro
ugh

e g a p in t he middle.
th

u n d o n
a ro
llop ical unicorn!
a
G rm ag
u Top tip
yo Why not glue on
glitter and sequins
for extra magical
sparkle? 57
 Shadow theatre
Make a theatre and put on a shadow show
with your puppets from page 36.
Tools needed:
Felt-tip pen
Masking
Ruler tape
Scissors
Cardboard
Lamp box Tracing or
Glue baking paper

Hold us up at
the back of the
theatre.

58
1 2
CUT

Cut away one of the

long sides of the box.

Draw a rectangle on your

box. It should be about
the width of a ruler away Ask an adult to help you
from the edges. cut out the rectangle.
3
4

Tape tracing paper to Light your

theatre
the inside of the box from behin
d
covering the hole. with a lam
p. Cut out and decorate
pillars and a pediment.
Glue them to the
front of the theatre.
59
 Cardboard collage
Make a city scene with scraps of
paper, fabric, and cardboard.
Tools needed:
Masking Glue
tape
Googly eyes

Paintbrush for glue

Cardboard, coloured Scissors
paper, and fabric scraps
Paints

Paintbrush Tinfoil Felt-tip

pens
Shiny fish

e
c a n fin d a fish templat
Yo u
Add a river to your city, t h e b a c k o f the book.
at
complete with tinfoil fish!
60
City scene
Cut out your cardboard shapes and
glue on your paper and fabric pieces.
Use coloured
Paint window masking tape to
panes and other create windows.
details.

Use different
materials Patterned paper
for doors. can look fun too.
Use felt-tip
pens to
decorate us.

Glue on
googly eyes.

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