Stuff we make

Part 1: We've already made it for you to print out - just click on the link to open the pdf.

A-Z Grid

Fun for all the family

This is great for filling in names of places, animals, bands, friends...loads of things. Here are some ideas that will keep the grown ups occupied too:

Aroma, Blob, Civic, Dead, Eve, Fluff, Glug, Hurrah - have you worked it out yet? They are words that begin and end with the same letter.
Aberdeen, Brighton, Carlisle, Doncaster, Edinburgh, Florence - places we've visited.
Alan Bennett, Barry Cryer, Catherine Deneuve, Duane Eddy - celebrities with consecutive initials

TIP: If you laminate it, you can use it again and again.

1745 Activity Sheet

1745 Activity Sheet

Maze, wordsearch, hidden message and more - all on a Battle of Prestonpans theme.

I love Prestonpans

Emily loves Prestonpans

Is it a bookmark? Is it a window sticker? How you display your civic pride is for you to decide - hey that's a rhyme.

Ovals

What will yours be?

Drawing limited only by your imagination.

Bumper Activity Sheet

great for car journeys

If you liked the 1745 Activity Sheet you will love this one. A little bit of everything, optical illusions, suduko and mind-bogglers!

Light Switch Covers

lightswitchcover

Jazz up your boring old light switch using our template and your design.

Things to do in the holidays when it rains and you can't find your wellies

summer fun

This is a 20 page booklet packed full of ideas and our favourite stuff for these pages.  (If you have a fancy pants printer, use the 2 pages per sheet of A4 setting and print double-sided, to make an A5 booklet)

Part 2: Stuff you might want to try yourself

 Polystyrene Wall Art

Rubbish Art!

We had so much fun making this giant artwork from nothing more than a block of polystyrene and wool. Detailed instructions can be found on the Instructables website where it was featured.
Kids Polystyrene Wall Art - More DIY How To Projects

  1. Get some polystyrene
  2. Create a hole
  3. Add  wool randomly, pulling tight as it passes through hole

Instant Bubble Wand

No bubble wand? No problem!
  1. How to make an emergency bubble wand using only two drinking straws.
  2. Find two bendy straws
  3. Pinch one straw so that it will fit into the other.  Push it as far up as the bend
  4. Cross the two 'legs' over
  5. Pinch one end of a straw into the other as before, to make a figure of 8
  6. Dunk in some mild bubble solution and blow!

  1. Easy bubble wand - More DIY How To Projects
Detailed instructions can be found on the Instructables website where it was featured.

Pretty Party Bunting - for your room or outside

bunting


Party Bunting - More DIY How To Projects
  1. Cut out triangles and stick on letters as required
  2. Laminate
  3. Punch holes in top edge at left and right
  4. Thread string or ribbon and display
Detailed instructions can be found on the Instructables website

Fairy Door (or pixie, elf, sprite or leprachaun door)


Fairy, Pixie, Elf, Leprachaun doors - More DIY How To Projects

Detailed instructions can be found on the Instructables website
  1. Cut out the door shape from cardboard
  2. Get a grown up to cut out the window using a craft knife
  3. Add the details like door handles etc.
Funny Nose Mug


Coffee Mug Snout - turn your unsuspecting friends into pigs - More DIY How To Projects
  1. Cut out a picture of a nose, beak or snout
  2. Stick in on the bottom of a cup
  3. Give the cup to your victim!

Gorgeous Tealight Holder

pretty
  1. Remove the label from a baby food jar.
  2. Clean the jar making sure that all the glue from the label has been removed.
  3. Dry thoroughly.
  4. Paint your design - random ones work best if aren't confident about drawing - on the outside of the jar using glass or ceramic paint.
  5. Loop some florists' or picture hanging wire under the plastic rim and secure to make handle.
  6. Put a LED tealight candle inside (if using a real tealight, remember the handle will get hot)

Quick Snowflake

  1. Cut out a circle
  2. Fold it into six sections (ie in half then in thirds)
  3. Make small triangular cuts in the edges
  4. Open out to reveal a lovely snowflake

Sweetie wrapper figure

  1.  Take a small rectangle of foil and make a small tear in the middle of the bottom edge
  2. Make two tears, evenly apart a small way down from the top edge
  3. Scrunch each of the five sections - these will form the limbs and head
  4. Bend your figure anyway you want

Prismatic pictures - see it to believe it

3D picture

You will need:
Two pictures (these could be your own drawings, postcards or photographs) of the same size
Card - a side of a cereal box is ideal
Scissors
Pen or pencil
Ruler
Glue
  1. Instructions:
  2. Make evenly spaced vertical lines on each of your pictures
  3. Cut your card the same height but twice the width of one of the pictures.
    (TIP: Place your two pictures side by side on top of your card as a template)
  4. Make evenly spaced vertical lines on the card - the same spacing as you used for your pictures
  5. Make concertina style folds on your card
  6. Cut your pictures into strips along the lines, being careful to keep them in order
  7. Glue the strips of pictures alternatively
  8. Your picture is ready!

The Embarrassingly Easy bookmark

Snip

  1.  Cut the corner off a envelope and put it over your page in a book!

  2. Erm...that's it

Send an E-Card

Prestonpans High Street looking East

Click on the image to send it as an e-card

Links to safe, fun sites

Activity Village -  over 3,000 activities including puzzles and printables

CBeebies - all the favourite characters from CBeebies are here.

CBBC -  the BBC's pages for older kids

Crayola - good things to make section and colouring sheets

Free Rice - improve your vocabulary and end hunger

Make a Snowflake - make beautiful snowflakes at this cool website

Saatchi Gallery - where under 17s can make and exhibit artwork

Woodlands Junior School - the best school website around!  Homework help and loads of games.