Artist Activity Badge
Festive Christmas activities
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Letter to Cub Leade
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This special edition Ch
ristmas activity pack
includes three festive
Christmas activities, to
help Cubs work towa
rds their Artist Activity
Badge.
We’ve also included ad
ditional creative activ
ities
perfect for keeping yo
ur Group busy over th
e
festive season.
Don’t forget to visit th
e Hobbycraft Ideas Lib
rary
at www.hobbycraft.co
.uk for a whole range
of
Christmas card making
, wrapping and decora
ting
ideas.
KEY
Did you know?
Crafty tip!
Safety first
Art
Contents
Activities
Things to make an
d do
1. Design and mak
e a Christmas card
.
2. Make a poster ad
vertising a
Cub Scout event.
3. Design and build
a model.
Festive Christmas m
akes
1. Christmas tree de
corations
2. Advent calendar
s
3. Festive baking
Hobbycraft stores
near you
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deer a
Santa’s rein
of
The names
ncer and
Dancer, Pra
d
n
Dasher a
id,
et and Cup
Vixen, Com
n.
r and Blitze
and Donne
Things to make and do
Sending a handmade, Christmas card to you
r family or friends is
the perfect way to let them know you are
thinking
of them this Christmas.
What you need:
•
Design
ke
and ma g
in
t
a gree
card
•
•
•
•
•
•
Card blanks and paper in your choice of
colours
(red, white, green, silver or gold)
Pom poms
Felt / fabric
Wobbly eyes
Craft glue
Scissors
Felt markers
Instructions
1. Decide on your design. This could be
a Christmas tree,
reindeer, stocking or snowman.
2. Choose your colour theme. You migh
t you want to
work with traditional red, white and gree
n or you
could go for something more glitzy such
as pink
and gold.
3. Using your felt, poms, coloured pape
r and wobbly
eyes, design your card. It is a good idea
to lay out
your design before sticking anything dow
n.
4. Stick your design to your card using
craft glue.
5. Leave your design to dry.
t!
Safety firirses
requ
This project
issors.
sc
the use of
u get
Make sure yo
adult.
help from an
Things to
m
ake and d
Throwing a C
o
hristmas part
y? W
p
romote your
event?
hy not design
a poster to h
elp
Ma
a po ke
adve ster
a Cu rtising
b Sc
even out
t
What you ne
ed:
•
•
•
•
•
•
Date:
Time:
Venue:
d family!
friends an
Bring your
Get crafty tip!
?
Looking for inspiration
There are posters all
go
around you, why not
al
for a walk in your loc
area and town centres
and snap a few pictures
ink
of your favourites? Th
em.
about why you like th
Do they catch your
attention, why?
Large piece o
f card (A1, A3,
A4)
Poster paints
Ruler
Markers
Pencil
Eraser
Instructions
:
1. Find out
the details of
your event.
When is it? W
hat time will
it start
and end? Whe
re is it being he
2. What addi
ld?
tional inform
ation needs to
included? Is th
be
ere a dress co
de?
Do guests need
to bring anythi
3. Decide on
ng?
your design. It
is a good idea
sketch the de
to
sign on a sepa
rate piece of
paper before
you get starte
d.
4. Once you
are happy with
the design an
layout of your
d
poster, use a pe
ncil to mark
out the areas
on the poster
where you wan
the various el
t
ements to sit.
5. This is espe
cially importan
t for the area
you will be ad
s where
ding details; yo
u want to mak
sure everything
e
fits in before
you start pain
and decoratin
ting
g.
6. Using your
poster paints
and markers st
fill in your de
art to
sign. Outlinin
g words with
marker helps
a black
make them st
and out more.
7. Wait for
your paint to
dry.
Things to make and do
Use ice-cream sticks to design and build a
model castle!
What you need:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Design
and bu
ild
a mode
l
Ice-cream sticks (plain or coloured)
Craft glue
Toothpicks
Paper, paint, ribbon, beads, pom poms,
sequins
and glitter
Instructions:
Floor:
1
2
1. Lay two large ice-cream sticks down
flat, parallel to
one another, about three inches apart. (Stick
s 1 and 2
on diagram)
2. Place a line of glue along the top of
sticks 1 and 2.
3. Place a number of large sticks horiz
ontally on top of
sticks 1 and 2. Leave to dry.
Castle Walls:
1. Lay two small ice-cream sticks down
flat parallel to one
another about 3 inches apart.
2. Place a line of glue along the two smal
l sticks.
3. Place alternative large and small stick
s horizontally on
top of the two small sticks.
4. Repeat steps 1-4 until you have four
walls.
5. Glue the walls to the floor and allow
to dry.
Get crafty tip!
Get crafty tip!
lls a
To give your tower wa
in
n
ow
jagged look as sh
you
re
su
ke
the picture, ma
ey
th
so
ck
line up each sti
sit flush at the bottom.
Ice-cream sticks can
be used
to make all sorts of
fun and
interesting models.
From
festive Christmas tre
es and
tiaras to boats and
bicycles.
Festive Christmas Makes
Looking for more festive makes? We’ve pull
ed together a
few of our favourite Christmas projects, perf
ect for Group
or individual activity.
Tree
tions
c
De ora
Christmas pudding decoration
What you need:
•
•
•
•
Styrofoam, ceramic or plastic bauble
Acrylic paint–brown and white
Paint brush
Red and green stick–on felt
Instructions:
1.
2.
3.
Draw a wiggly line around the bauble abou
ta
third of the way down.
Paint the top white and the bottom brow
n, then
leave to dry before repeating coats.
Cut out small green felt holly leaves and
red felt
berries then stick to the top of the baub
le.
Candy cone decoration
What you need:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
A4 Card
Patterned/plain felt or fabric
Ribbon
Ric rac
Small gold bells
Double sided tape
Needle and thread
Scissors
Instructions:
1.
Using a plate or other round object (mea
suring
roughly 30cm) in diameter, draw a semi
circle
on a piece of card. Cut out.
2. Stick the semi-circle to a piece of fabric
or felt
and trim off the excess.
3. Measure and mark a central point on
the base
of the semi circle and roll into a cone, then
secure in place with double-sided tape.
4. Cut a 15cm length of ribbon. Stick each
end
to the top edge of the outside of the cone
at
opposite points.
5. Trim the cone with a piece of ric rac,
covering
the ends of the ribbon handle.
6. Finally, sew a small bell to the cone’
s point and
fill it with sweets.
coration
Mache de
:
need
What you
Mache tree green, red and
t–
Acrylic pain
white
buds
• Cotton
•
•
ns:
d
Instructhtio
ee green an
e mache tr
ith
Paint
eating w
before rep
leave to dry
at.
another co
nt dotty
n buds, pai
o
tt
co
g
n
si
U
ee with red
tr
2.
l over the
al
s’
le
b
au
‘b
paint.
and white
1.
Festive Chri
stmas Make
Why not tie so
me of these b
u
or hide them
ckets to your
Christmas tre
e
use?
around the ho
ts
bucke
Mini ent
adv on
ati
decor
What you ne
ed:
• Mini buck
ets or
–white, silver plastic cups
and red
• Cardboard
numbers
• Acrylic pai
nt–green, red
an
• Red gingh
am ribbon–9m d white
m and 6mm
• Glue
Instructions
:
1. Paint the
card numbers
with acrylic
paints, starting
with 1-red, 2green
and 3-white.
2. Glue the re
d numbers to
the silver
buckets, gree
n numbers to
the white
numbers and
white to the re
3. Tie each bu
d.
cket to a leng
th of ribbon,
starting from
number one.
4. Once all th
e buckets are
strung, fill wit
goodies and ha
h
ng along a m
antel piece
or on the wal
l.
Did you know...
If yo
u had to receive all
the gifts
from the Christmas
song
’12 Days of Christm
as’,
you would receive 36
4 in total!
Festive Ch
ristmas
make
Why not spo
il your famil
y and friend
them these
s by making
gorgeous sn
owman cupca
kes?
Festive
bakes
What you ne
ed:
• One batch
o
• Icing sugar f cupcakes*
*
• 6 tbsp edib
le glitter*
• White sug
ar paste block
• Orange fo
od colouring
• Writing ic
ing tube–black
• Rice paper
*
• Food colo
uring pens
Instructions
:
rst!
Safety fi
for help
ult
Ask an ad
ing with
rk
when wo
n. Don’t
a hot ove
r apron
forget you ves!
glo
and oven
et to
Don’t forg rgies.
lle
a
check for
*Not sold at Hobbycraft
1. Make a ba
tch of cupcak
es using your
favourite reci
pe and allow
to cool.
Don’t forget to
check for alle
2. Draw patt
rgies.
erns onto the
ri
ce
pa
per and cut
into short stri
ps to make sn
owman scarve
3. Roll 1cm bl
s.
ocks of sugar
paste into balls
(one for each
cake) and pres
s a cocktail stic
into the ball to
k
make a hole in
which the
carrot nose w
ill sit.
4. Mix a smal
l amount of or
ange colourin
paste into a pi
g
ece of sugar pa
ste until it is a
consistent shad
e. Use this to
make carrot no
and push each
ses
in
to the snowm
5. Mix the ic
an head shap
ing sugar with
es
.
a little cold w
it resembles do
ater until
uble cream. Co
ncentrating on
one cake at a
time, spoon th
e
icing onto the
cake and then
sprinkle on a
tiny amount of
glitter. While
the icing is still
wet add the tw
scarf pieces an
o
d a head, push
ing it gently in
the white icin
to
g.
6. Finally ad
d black dots of
writing icing
eyes and mou
for the
th.
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