Need:

• toilet roll(s) – one per car
• scissors
• cardboard
• glue
• texta

How to:

Paint your toilet roll.

Once dry, cut a hole out of the top. Cut 4 circles out of black card (or paper you have painted black) and then 4 smaller circles out of white paper. Stick the white circle in the middle of the black circle and then attach to the toilet roll. Your car now has wheels!

Decorate you like. Use paint or textas, cut pieces of paper and stick on for greater impact.

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To begin, find some thick card (like a cardboard box) and cut two circles the same size. Cut another smaller circle out of the centre (same size again for both circles). Don’t make the middle circle too big as it will take longer to complete the pom pom. Once finished, you should now have a donut shape.

Cut a long length of wool and start winding it around the donut. Either use the same colour wool for the entire project for a single coloured pom pom or change colours as your work for different patterns. Continue until the inner hole is filled. Take a scissors and being to cut around the edge. The scissors should run between the two pieces of cardboard. Once you have cut all the way around, use another length of wool and run it between the two cardboard circles. If you would like the pom pom to be on a string, keep this length of wool long. Tie it off with a sturdy knot – if this comes apart, your pom pom will fall apart, so make sure it is strong. Now remove the two pieces of card. Usually your pom pom then requires a gentle haircut and fluffing.

Either leave as it, or decorate. We added goggle eyes to bring ours alive.

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Materials

• Polystyrene balls of different sizes (we purchased a bag of 12 with 3 different sizes for $4)
• Toothpicks
• Coloured sewing pins (available from supermarkets and craft stores)
• Sticks
• Textas
• Craft supplies such as ribbons, buttons, pipe cleaners, lids, goggly eyes, wool
• Optional – hot glue gun

Method

1. Insert a toothpick into a polystyrene balls.
2. Join with another ball.
3. Use sticks found in the garden to make arms.
4. Sewing pins can be used to make eyes and nose and draw a mouth on.
5. Decorate – we used ribbons to make scarfs, glued buttons down the front, pinned some wool for hair or used a recycled lid as a hat.
6. Other ideas
   • see what your can borrow from other toys – we used a hat and glasses.
   • paint or textas could be used to decorate the snowman if you don’t have any craft supplies.
   • pipecleaners could be used for scarves or arms.
   • cut a square of a cereal box and glue the snowman to it so he stands up.

Hot glue guns are a great investment for parents costing only $10. They provide strength to your child’s creation, allowing it to be played with all day. They also help school projects survive the trip to school.

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