An Arts and Crafts Activity.
This activity will be a great hit for dinosaur-lovers.
Materials Required:
- Papier-mache materials
- Aluminum foil pie pan
- Funnel
- Tempera paint
- Balloon
- Toy dinosaurs
Instructions:
This activity will be a great hit for dinosaur-lovers.
Your first step should be know the basic technique for papier-mache making.
To make your Papier Mache tear up a good quantity of long strips of newspaper.
In a mixing bowl, combine water and flour until you have a paste that’s thin enough to coat the newspaper strips. Experiment with small quantities of the mixture first; if it’s too thin the paper will turn into a soggy mush.
Dip the paper into the paste and then show your child how to use two fingers as a squeegee to prepare the strips. Wrap the lightly coated paper around the form, crisscrossing it to make overlapping layers.
When the creation is finished place it in a warm, dry area. Once it is completely dry remove the form and provide your child with Tempera paints to decorate it.
Every dinosaur landscape needs a volcano so use a large funnel as the form.
When the volcano is dry, let your kids streak red paint down the sides to simulate lava. A cotton ball on top makes for good “smoke.”
Next, make a dino cave by wrapping the wet papier-mache mixture around an elongated balloon.
When the form dries, have your child pop the balloon; you’ll be left with a cave that would please any Triceratops.
Make a primordial lake by using an aluminum foil pie pan as the form.
Build up the sides to create a bank and when the model dries, paint it blue and green – ideal for Pleiciosaurus.
Inverted yogurt containers make good forms for small mountains, and paper towel tubes can be used to shape prehistoric trees and logs.
The finished pieces can stand alone, or you can affix them to a piece of wood.
Either way, add a few toy dinosaurs (or even pictures of dinosaurs from magazines) and your child is all set for a journey to the Jurassic.
This Childrens Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning.
The plugin is not appearing in my widgets..so cannot drag and drop into sidebar?,