Art Attack
Local illustrator, artist and all round creative guru Suzie Brown has shared some of her favourite lockdown creations for for you and your family to enjoy making this summer. Enjoy!
Jasmine Bath Bombs 90g Bicarbonate of Soda - 30g Citric Acid (This can be purchased online) - Essential Oil (Jasmine, Lavender or your choice) - Food Colouring, Rose Petals, Lavender Flowers or Similar - Water Equipment: Bowl, Spatula, Spray Bottle, Silicone Moulds, Tissue Paper (optional but lovely for presentation as a gift!) Measure out in a bowl the Bicarbonate of Soda and Citric Acid, add a couple of drops of food colouring and essential oil, rose petals, dried lavender flowers or other petals if available. Stir the mixture well to break down the oil and food colouring and integrate it with the soda and citric acid, you may like to use the back of the spatula for this…keep going until it looks spread fairly evenly. The Bicarbonate of Soda and Citric Acid want to react with water and fizz, so by adding a fine mist of water a little at a time and stirring the mixture, you can combine the ingredients to form a sticky dough that holds together enough to add to the silicone moulds. The silicone moulds work effectively to release the bath bombs once they have set, 45 minutes later. Wrapping the bath bombs in tissue helps to protect them!
Jam Jar Lanterns Glass Jar - Tissue Paper - PVA/water based craft glue - Glue Brush - Paper Scissors - Wire 50cms approximately - Pliers Beads - Jewels/Bio glitter (optional) - battery operated night lights First clean and remove sticky labels from your glass jar and dry it. Choose your colour theme and cut some tissue paper shapes to apply to the outer surface of the jar with glue. If you don’t have tissue paper you may like to use drawings you or your children have made. You could also use Sharpie or craft marker pens that work on glass. Black paper cut in silhouettes of a theme you like also look effective! Brush an even layer of glue to the outer surface of your jar and start to lay the paper shapes flat on the surface! If they overlap this is fine, you just add to the lovely colour selection available to enjoy once your project is complete! Leave to dry! Once dry – measure the wire around your jar and enough wire to form a handle you will be adding beads to, plus enough to twist a finish at the end of the rim and the end of the handle so the beads and wire don’t fall off! Add on a border of glitter or perhaps inside if you choose.
DI Y Kaleidoscopes Kitchen Roll Tube, Mirrored Card or use aluminium foil backed on card - Scissors Three discs the same size as the circumference of your tube, 2 x Transparent, 1 x Semi Transparent 5cms diameter approximately! (you could use baking or tracing paper) Measure your roll first as diameters may differ. - Transpaernt Beads and Sequins Black sugar paper or opaque card to make a circle for the view finder - Tape/Sellotape - Ruler Have fun decorating your roll with paper and glue or paint or pens! Cut a piece of mirrored card 21.5cm long and 13.5cms wide, score it along the width twice at 4.5cms, tape to together to form the prism. Insert the mirrored card or foil backed card in to the roll. You will have a gap at one end to add the clear plastic disc. Add your beads and sequins on top of the clear plastic disc in the roll – you do not want too many and you do not want too little – try out assembling the semi transparent lid on top and see how it looks turning it in your hand as if complete! Attach the semi transparent disc and second clear plastic disc on top to seal the bead end of your Kaleidoscope, you can do this with tape! Cut a circle of black sugar paper to fit the diameter of the view finding end of your Kaleidoscope and tape or glue in place!
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