We are all staying at home, coping with our new routines. Missing seeing our friends and family out and about.

But I am hoping to bring a little bit of crafting sunshine into your homes with the activities in this newsletter. I thought about those of you who had no time to think about picking up craft bits and pieces before we were locked down, so I have created another bonnet activity with just newspaper and tape. Then you can have fun boing- boing -boinging everywhere.

More projects and imaginative activities will be posted below the Bonnet activity.

Room Transformations with #WFVirtualCulture. more information below.
Creative Kids activities online with the William Morris Gallery including making paper flowers and bonnets in my events page. https://www.scribbleandsmudge.com/new-events

**Tools**

.Five double spread newspaper sheets
.Masking tape/any tape
.Leaves/flowers/grass
.Scissors
.Pencils for colouring/drawing.

Instructions:

To prepare for the activity, I suggest the carer makes the hat. Choose a design of hat that the child would like. The child can make the ears and decorate the brim of the hat to be added to the hat that’s made.

Two ways of making the hat:

The easiest way to ensure that the hat fits is to shape the newspaper directly onto the child’s head. Only an easy option if your child is willing or able. See video below.

Tip: make sure theres plenty of newspaper proud of the head to be able to indent and shape into a top hat.

Or

Two step method, by shaping the newspaper onto a bowl, taping the newspaper to hold the round shape. Removing it from the bowl, and then tie bandana style to the child's head with the brim they make.

Tip: Sit the crown of the newspaper above head line. Then tie the brim at the brow as in the video in step one.

Instructions Here:

Take 3 double sheets of newspaper and turn the bowl upside down.
Cris cross them either over the head of person, or over a bowl.
Feel and tape the newspaper round the base of the bowl. The newspaper should take shape of the top of the hat. Tip: tape it well so all the layers hold and stick.
Lift off the newspaper. You can either keep it sun hat style and cut your brim to suit. Or roll the sides up to form a top hat brim. Set it aside. You will need to use the brim to tie round the crown of the head and make the hat fit snugly.
Make the brim. Fold full size of broad sheet in half and half again in its width. place leaves/flowers draw along the brim as decoration. ( full instructions in paper plate bonnet section)
Make the bunny ears. Take last sheet of newspaper fold and fold again. Draw a bunny ear shape and cut it out. You should get 4 ears. Tape two pairs at the edges it makes a more sturdier ear ( I got lucky and had pink newspaper to use for the inside of the ears ).
Take your newspaper hat and see fit on child. Take the brim and tape from edge to edge a snug fit to the brow of the hat. Remember to leave some newspaper a little proud of the head. Then shape the hat as desired. Rolling the edges, taping, or cutting a shape you like.
Shape and Place the ears inside the brim. You can tape them in to secure if you wish. You have your easter bunny hat!
Hop little bunnies hop hop hop

Take 3 double sheets of newspaper and turn the bowl upside down.

Feel and tape the newspaper round the base of the bowl. The newspaper should take shape of the top of the hat. Tip: tape it well so all the layers hold and stick.

Lift off the newspaper. You can either keep it sun hat style and cut your brim to suit. Or roll the sides up to form a top hat brim.

Make the brim. Fold full size of broad sheet in half and half again in its width. place leaves/flowers draw along the brim as decoration.

Make the bunny ears. Take last sheet of newspaper fold and fold again.

Take your newspaper hat and see fit on child. Take the brim and tape from edge to edge a snug fit to the brow.

Shape and Place the ears inside the brim. You can tape them in to secure if you wish. You have your easter bunny hat!

Room Transformations

Transform your rooms to become new places of play. Easy activities creating with objects within your home. Activities for the family of all ages.

We would love to share the joy of imagining ways in which you can transform the every day around you into something magical. Make spaces where stories, games and playfulness could begin and never end.

Scribble and Smudge will present 3 ways to reimagine and transform spaces in your homes and would love YOU to create and share your ideas with us. An activity that babies through to adults can enjoy together.

Tag me in your posts @scribbleand_smudge — and use the hashtag #ScribbleAtHome

Tuesday 14th April: Den making with artist Akiko and daughter Erika. Creating a festival vibe, with anything you have in your home, fit for a teddy bear’s jamboree. Check for posts on how to make decorative pompoms. Suitable for 3+. You can adapt and make simpler soft areas for crawlers and babies to explore with the pompoms.
Tuesday 21st April: Masking tape drawings by Lesley Palmer. Have fun posing and tracing your body dancing and flying in your hall. Suitable for any age sticking with tape.
Tuesday 28th April: Turn a bed into a vessel fit for the seven seas with artist Vanessa. Creating sea creatures from your socks and sheets for your sails. Check for posts on how to create sea creatures and a fishing game. Suitable for under 5’s and over.

Scribble and Smudge are working on further online projects for under 5’s with the William Morris Gallery , looking at the collection and coming up with ideas on how to create at home.

I am missing our wonderful Creative Kids who come to workshops every month. Whether I know you in person, or not, I hope you all keep well. Keep up exercising and making wonderful craft. Maybe I’ll see what you have made on my hashtag #ScribbleAtHome, or #WMGfamilies.

See: https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/learning/learning-at-home
For more creative kids and family activities. Live Instagram 1pm this Saturday @morrisgallery making an Osterbaum with artist Lucy.