My 'makes'

Last Tuesday I had a job interview. I didn't get the job, but I'll tell you about it anyway.

It was to be an art assistant on the children's television show Mister Maker. Guys, it would have been perfect, but nevermind.

In preparation for the interview I had to come up with two 'makes' suitable for the show.

This is what I came up with.

I had fun making these. Especially doing the colouring for the theatre backdrop.

Sometimes it's nice to just colour.

Maybe I should print these out and get my colour-on

Fish craft session

Yesterday was the last of the three craft sessions at the mill.

This time the kids made mini aquariums...

...and paper plate fish.

13 kids turned up which was the most out of all of the sessions, but luckily I just had enough of the containers for the aquariums.

I also have these two ideas featured in the summer issue of Creative Steps magazine.

Robot craft session

Yesterday I ran the first of three craft sessions at my local mill.

First up was robots.

Here's the one I made as an example. It's arms and head moves.

The magic of split-pins.

One of the kids tried to copy it exactly. I take that as a compliment.

And because there's always those kids that finish early I came prepared with some robot colouring pages that I printed from the internet.

There were some leftover so I thought I'd do one. Sometimes it's nice just to colour. And I totally kept inside the lines.

When I was younger and had a day off school because I was ill I would always get out my colouring books and wax crayons. I even had a Sesame Street colouring book. It was awesome.

Pine cone people

Here's how to make pine cone people:

The two main things I used are pine cones, which I picked up from a local woods, and pipe cleaners.

I had wanted to use a wooden ball or something similar for the head, but I didn't have any, so I made a loop with a pipe cleaner and twisted it round the end of the pine cone instead.

For a simpler pine cone person I painted the cone with acrylic paint and attached a pine cleaner head.

I twisted a pipe cleaner around the middle of the pine cone and added beads for the hands...

...and did then same for the legs and used beads for the feet.

And then it's done!