Bunny Palm Art

Age Range: 4-11

Equipment needed: A4 sheet paper, black, blue and pink felt tip pen

Bunny Palm Art 

Have you ever wanted to learn how to draw a bunny? Well you can do this, simply by using the palm of your hand. ✋🐇

To draw your bunny:

  Place your left hand on your sheet of paper with your middle finger facing out and your forefinger held out straight.The rest of your fingers need to be tucked into your hand.

 

Draw round your hand

 

Round out the face of your bunny by drawing two small circles below for the feet and two oval shapes in each finger for the bunny's ears

    

 

Draw two circles for the eyes and two very small triangles for the eyebrows on top of your eyes

  

 

For your eyes, colour half of them with black pen and then colour a small crescent of the eye with a blue pen

 

Below your eyes, draw a triangle for the nose with a small box just below it for the mouth. Add small dots on either side of your nose. Add whiskers by drawing three lines on each side of your mouth curving inwards at the end of it

 

 Colour the nose and ears with a pink pen

 

For the body, draw round towards the end of your sheet. Once close to the end, curve round heading towards the bottom of the face stopping halfway. Once stopped halfway, curve back inwards and from that line curve back again.

 

Round off the body towards the bottom of your face and add a small tail at the end of your body to make your own bunny palm art.

Watch the Bunny Palm Art video:

 

Thank you and hope you enjoyed the blog post. Please leave in the comments how you found drawing your own bunny as well as any feedback you may have. Please also leave in the comments any animals you'd like me to draw for you guys and be sure to check out some of my other blog posts.😊🐇

Paper Plate Frisbees

 Age Range: 5-11

Equipment needed: Scissors, two paper plates, glue stick, stapler or cellotape and colours for decoration

Paper Plate Frisbees

 

On this post, I am going to show you step by step on how to make your own paper plate frisbee which can be made easily and with little supervision. These frisbees are made from paper plates which are safe to use inside and out.

This is an enjoyable activity which can develop your child’s creative side and gross motor skills.

Once you’ve made your frisbee, here comes the best part - throwing your new paper plate frisbee around with your friends - but make sure the dog doesn’t eat it. 

To make your paper plate frisbees:

 

 Start with your two paper plates

 

Place one paper plate on top of the other just like this

 

Fold both paper plates together in half

 

Either make a hole in the center of your plates and then cut a circle out of the center of your plates or cut the paper plates along the inner semi circle 

 

Glue your paper plates together by applying glue round the outside edge on the inside of one of your plates 

 

Stick them both together

 

Staple or cellotape two opposite sides to ensure the paper plates hold together

Decorate your plates however you would like to

 

You've made your own paper plate frisbee

 

After you’ve made your frisbee, go test it out!

 

Watch the Paper Plate Frisbees video: 

 

Thank you and hope you enjoyed the blog post. Please leave in the comments how you found making your own paper plate frisbees as well as any feedback you may have with this post and be sure to check out some of my other blog posts on Danny's Blog.😊 

Horse Palm Art

 Age Range: 4-11

Equipment needed: A4 sheet paper, black and orange felt tip pen

Horse Palm Art

Have you ever wanted to learn how to draw a horse? Well you can do this, simply by using the palm of your hand. ✋🐴

To draw your horse:

Place your left hand on the sheet of paper with all your fingers held together and your thumb tucked in to your hand

 

Draw round your hand

 

 

Draw the neck round and add to the bottom of your hand 

 

Add a mouth, small nostril and a circle for the eye

 

For the eye, draw a small circle in the eye and colour the outer circle in black pen

 

Draw two horns on top of your horse as well as the mane

Colour the mane in orange pen

 

You've drawn your own horse

Watch the Horse Palm Art video:

Thank you and hope you enjoyed the blog post. Please leave in the comments how you found drawing your own horse as well as any feedback you may have. Please also leave in the comments any animals you'd like me to draw for you guys and be sure to check out some of my other blog posts.😊🐴

Sticky Note Wall Bop

Age Range: 5-11

 

Equipment needed: 26 Sticky notes, pen or pencil, soft ball and a door or wall to stick your sticky notes on

Sticky Note Wall Bop

 

On this post, I will explain how to play sticky note wall bop which is a fun game and can help with your creativeness, problem solving, throwing accuracy and spelling.

For this game, you will need 26 sticky notes, pen or pencil, a soft ball and a door or wall to stick your sticky notes on. 

 

To get started, you are going to write all the letters of the alphabet on your sticky notes and stick them to your wall or door. Ensure there is enough space in between each letter as well as having different letters placed with each other to make the game harder. 

Once your ready to play.....

        Pick a word to spell out. With this word, you are aiming to spell it by throwing your ball at the individual sticky note one letter at a time.

So take a few steps back from your wall/door and see how you get on!

 

 

How to progress....

• Take further steps back from the wall/door to test your throwing accuracy
  
• Spell bigger and complex words
• If you were to incorrectly throw at one letter or miss the letter, then you would have to spell the word again
  
• Eliminate the consonants and keep the vowels game -  In this game, you create a word from the letters you have. For example with the word 'DANNY', you would spell the word and remove the D, N and Y from the game as these are consonants. With the remaining letters, you make a word until there are no consonants left and all 5 vowels remaining. This progression helps with creativeness and problem solving where by you thinking of a word with the letters you have left.
  

 

Watch the Sticky Note Wall Bop game video:

 

 

Thank you and hope you enjoyed the blog post. Please leave in the comments how you found playing this game as well as different progressions you could play and be sure to check out some of my other blog posts.😊