Resources: coloured sugar paper, 2 colours of paint, 2 toy cars. 

If you want your tartan to look more authentic you should use realistic colours of paper and paint e.g. red paper, green and yellow paint.

How to:

1. Set out the 2 colours of paint in flat paint palletes and sit a toy car in each one. 

2. Get the children to chose one colour of paint.  Let them roll the toy car in it so that the wheels are covered in paint. 

3. The child can then roll the car across the paper to cover the page in horizontal stripes. 

4. repeat steps 2 and 3 with the second colour to make vertical stripes this time. 

5. Voila! Tyre-Track tartan!

Resources (per kilt): 1 sheet of Tartan Paper , 1 paper sporran, appropriate length of string for the child’s waist (aprox 70cm). 

Resources (general): double sided tape, Sellotape.

How to:

1. Take a rectangular piece of tartan wrapping paper and lay it pattern side down.  Fold in the top two corners and tape them down at the back to make the skirt shape.

2. To make the waistband; With the skirt still patterened side down, fold down about 5cm (depth) of  the top edge  of the skirt and Sellotape along the bottom edge of the fold.  You have now created a  tube-like waistband – You must leave the ends open to feed the string through!!

3. Feed a legnth of string long enough to go around the child’s waist through the waistband. 

4. Turn the kilt over and attach a paper sporran* to the front using glue or double-sided tape (this is less messy when working with young children). 

*I drew a sporran  and photocopied one for each child.  With older children they could draw their own or colour in a blank one to stick on. 

5. Tie the kilt onto the child like an apron tying at the back. 

6. All shout “Och aye the noo Jimmy!”

 

Watch the video at:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/mistermaker/make/spoonbug_vplayer.shtml

This idea came from Mister Maker on CBBC – check out their website for lots more great arts and crafts ideas http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/.

As a trainee primary teacher, I come across lots of great activity ideas for the classroom.  Some of the posts show things I have picked up along the way and some of them are my own ideas that I have used successfully with children during school experience placements. 

I hope that some of these ideas inspire you to get creative!

This blog contains some interesting arts and crafts ideas that can be used with children…either in the primary classroom or at home to keep your own little artists entertained!