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Make a fun birdwatch concertina book and bookmarks. You can print out the step by step guide and there is also two template sheets you can download and print. You can download and print the activity sheets by clicking on the image then right click on the image and save to downloads.
Make these fantastic bookmarks!
These activity/template sheets are free to use for personal use only. Not for resale.
Designing a fun cat character in a cosy jumper. Love playing with pattens and textures to create this cosy cat. We often get an idea for a picture book sparking of one character and love playing around with a character, getting to know them and drawing them in lots of poses. When we created this character it sparked a series of questions ‘Why is he wearing a jumper?’ maybe it was knitted for him by a kind granny for him when he was just a little kitten. “ What kind of Jumper?’ A knitted one, slightly too big. ‘What could happen next?’ Maybe the jumper starts to unravel and cause lots of chaos!
We begin to create a framework around this character and his beloved knitted jumper. We are not yet sure where its going to take us and are continuing to develop the character and his story.
Often when we design characters for children’s books, we come up with little extra designs for paper toys, activity sheets and paper puppets. We base the puppets and toys on characters that we have designed and think of ways we can make them engaging and interactive.
One of our favourite things to make are paper puppets. We draw our characters out a few times on paper and pick a character that we think would work well as a puppet with movable arms and legs. We draw the full character out on to some paper and then we trace the arms, legs and body separately onto some card. To add colour to our character we usually use coloured pencils and collage. We then cut the body, arms and legs of our character out. We make holes in the top off the legs and arms and attach split pins to the body.
Below is an activity page for children to make their own finger puppets. We use collage on the characters to make them more intriguing and playful. We also create activity pages for children to create their own animal masks, party packs and 3D paper objects.
