Clubs
Kids Club
Kids club provides before and after school care for busy parents. It is run separately from the school but can be found on the school site.
Opening hours: term time
7.30am - 9.00am
3.00pm - 6.00pm
Opening hours: holidays
7.30am - 6.00pm
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Craft Club
Mrs Baker and Mrs Portus have run a very successful craft club in school for many years. They have put together some of the projects they do with the children.
- Air drying clay
- Grass people
- Hand puppets
- Salt dough
- Mardis Gras
- Children of the World
- Picture Mixture
Air drying clay
Air drying modeling clay is easy to use and decorate.
I made templates of the children’s initials and they rolled the clay out using guide sticks approximately 5mm deep. Using one either side of the slab ensures the clay is even, provided they remember to keep the rolling pin on the sticks.
Paint with acrylics for best results.
Grass people
You will need...
- Dessert pots or large yogurt pots
- Glue and spreaders
- Scraps of material/paper
- Grass seed
- Old tights or pop socks
- Elastic bands
- Sawdust and compost
- Wobbly eyes
- Cut a section of old tight (aboput 25cm)
- Tie off one end if necessary.
- Place some grass seed in the bottom and then fill with a mixture of about one third sawdust, rwo thirds compost.
- Shape to resemble a head.
- Tie off the bottom when right size to sit in the pot.
- Shape a nose and fasten with an elastic band. (some children put seed above the nose to make a moustache.)
- Glue on eyes.
- Decorate pot.
- When dry, water the seed.
Hand puppets
You will need...
- Scissors
- Sewing needles and pins
- Thread
- Stick on eyes or buttons
- Coloured felt
- Print out pattern for puppets,
- We cut the felt out ready for the children to assemble and pin themselves.
- The first time we made these, the children stitched buttons on for eyes before they pinned the back and front together.
- The second time we used the stick on wobbly eyes you can buy from craft shops.
- Ears can be sewn either between the back and front or stitched to the front of the puppet.
This project is OK for Y4/5 children.
Adapted from an idea on Kaboose
Salt dough
You will need
- 2 Level cups plain flour (270g)
- 1 Level cup cooking salt (270g)
- 3/4 Cup water (180ml)
- 2 tsp. Cooking oil (10ml)
Mix together and knead for about 10 minutes Bake on a low heat for at least 4 to 5 hours
Dough can be coloured with food dye instead of painting it afterwards.
Push paper clips into soft dough for hangers before you bake.
Paint with acrylics for best results. Use a sealer or brush on glaze if you want models to last.
We used the dough to make Christmas tree decorations and twisted garlands.
Make sure both surfaces are wet if adding flowers and decorations etc.
Mardis Gras
Children of the world
A special thank you to the children for this wonderful collage display, you should be proud of your efforts:
Emily Cole, Charlotte Brydon, Bowen Drewery, Aimee Grant, Kathryn Hastings, Emily Smith, Jack Hullett, Nina Moore, Olivia Stocks and Lydia Day
Picture mixture
Here is a selection of some of the other items we have made:
