CRAFTS

Festival Crafts

By Sarah Frow of The Kids’ Table

Festival season might be cancelled for this summer but that doesn’t mean families can’t have a bit of festival fun at home. Pop on your fave festival tunes in the garden or park, make these fun headdresses from The Kids’ Table and even put the tent up in the garden at bedtime for that all-round festival experience (well maybe just for an hour before slipping back inside to an actual bed!!).

FESTIVAL HEADDRESSES INGREDIENTS 4 pieces of thin A4 coloured card in contrasting colours Feathers – optional for alternative headdress Pencil Scissors Glue Sellotape METHOD 1. Cut two strips of card roughly 4cm wide and the length of the A4 sheet 2. Glue the strips together to create one long strip, measure round your child’s head and make a mark where it should join to fit – only decorate within the line you mark 3. Draw and cut out around four large flower shapes with four petals from coloured card (or however many you need to fill your strip of card), four small flower shapes in a contrasting colour to fit inside the large flower shapes, four leaf shapes and four small circles to fit the centre of the small flower shapes ALTERNATIVE HEADDRESS: Follow steps one and two, decorate your strip with geometric shapes cut from card and add feathers at one cm intervals along the strip by sellotaping them to the back of the strip. Then go to step 6

4. Glue the small flower shapes in the centre at an angle to the large flower shapes so that the small petals sit in the gaps between the big petals. Glue the small circles to the centre of the small flower shapes and the leaf shapes to the back of your flower so they peek out the side of the flower shapes 5. Glue the card flowers along the card strip up to the line you’ve marked when you measured your child’s head 6. Fix the headdress round your child’s head by joining the ends with Sellotape 7. Go somewhere green, put on your headdresses, blur your eyes and imagine you’re at Wilderness Festival!

In normal times, The Kids’ Table is a pop-up children’s corner operating in London pubs and restaurants offering supervised crafty fun while parents enjoy some downtime. It is currently offering craft tutorials on You Tube and Instagram. Follow @thekidstableuk or visit www.thekidstable.co.uk for more info and links to their Crafternoons.