Create your own wedding outfits i.e. toilet paper wedding dresses
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The collective noun for a group of elephants is ‘parade’. Make your own elephant masks and parade in them
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Use tartan fabric to make something useful i.e. door-stop or apron
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Make something with bamboo i.e. a bug hotel
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Use pioneering poles to create something you would see at the circus i.e. a swing, seesaw or Ferris wheel
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Make your own Scottie Dog door stop using tartan or recycled woollen fabrics
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Make a flying butterfly using a paperclip and an elastic band. Check out our Pinterest board for a ‘how to’.
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Create a beautiful crown fit for a butterfly queen.
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Use natural objects from around your garden to create a picture of a butterfly. You could use small twigs, leaves, flower heads or even petals.
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Spin or weave with silk just like a caterpillar does to make its cocoon.
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Design a butterfly friendly garden; think about feeding stations and places for butterflies to rest their wings. Find our garden design resource on the website.
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Create your own butterfly or caterpillar memo peg. Use our free resource to help or stick pom poms on your peg to create a caterpillar.
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Design and build your own butterfly feeding station to hang in your garden. Place your feeder in line with your window so that you can spot any butterflies that flutter by.
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Create your own butterfly mosaic using small tiles or beads. Don’t forget to glue them down!
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Build your own 3D butterfly life cycle using our free resource to represent the egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly. Why not display your life cycle on leaves or hang them from branches in your garden?
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Create a butterfly painting; paint spots and stripes to create one wing of a butterfly and then fold your paper in half to print your pattern
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Create a designer den. Draw, paint or collage what your ideal den would look like. Where would it be? What would be in it? How would you decorate it?
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Create a sculpture showing one of the rights of a child, according to the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child (UNCRC). Find a child friendly version of the convention at: savethechildren.org.uk.
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Build boats from different materials and see how well they float
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Make a T-Rex skeleton collage using cotton buds
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Build a robot or have a go at junk modelling with your waste instead of throwing it away
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In small groups make a suit of armour using recycled materials
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Design and/or make an enrichment toy for an animal/pet
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Make a mini stove from a clean baked bean tin
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Use potato printing to make bear paw prints then cut them out and use them for a bear hunt
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Make an Easter bonnet, edible or otherwise
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Make an Easter card and give it to someone special
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Make a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah and learn about a different faith
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Learn to knit and knit a square for a blanket. Put all the squares from your unit together to make a blanket and send it to a local shelter to keep someone warm
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Baden-Powell himself (founder of Scouting) hid war maps in drawings of bugs and butterflies. Make your own secret map
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Be a saving superhero and make a money box to keep your savings safe! Why not use your favourite superhero logo to make it personal?
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Bake with honey. i.e. make cakes or biscuits using honey
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Birds struggle to find food in the winter. Make some bird seed feeders to hang up at home
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Bring your teddy bear to your meeting and make an outfit for him/her using recycled materials
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Build a boat or raft, big or small and see if it floats
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Build your own climbing frame or set of monkey bars using pioneering poles and rope
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Build yourself a cardboard canoe using recycled boxes and reinforced tape.
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Carve pumpkins and get creative. For older groups use turnips!
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Cats like to jump on you when you’re reading, make a book mark to hold your page when this happens
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Carve pumpkins to look like a Teddy Bear or cut a pumpkin shape out of orange card and give it a face using black pen
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Chinese New Year happens normally in January or February why not celebrate by making Chinese lanterns or lucky money envelopes
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Choose another Christmas craft to make and give
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Colour and make your own St. David’s flag to wave
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Craft your own ‘Hunny’ pot from clay… just like Winnie The Pooh’s
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Create a ‘Big Art’ to look like the Skeleton of a T-Rex
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