Sandcastle Competition

If you are able to, holding a sand castle building competition is great fun.
It promotes teamwork as well as using natural materials to build structures. Here are some designs that we built.

Spring Blossom Tree

Spring Blossom Tree

Materials Needed

• Tissue paper - various bright colours
• Tree branch
• Scissors
• PVA Glue
• Glue Brush
• Bucket
• Sand

Method

1. Cut the tissue paper into small squares, doesn't have to be exact.
2. Put the tree branch in the bucket full of sand so it looks like a small tree.
3. Scrunch up the tissue paper into small balls.
4. Glue these balls onto the branch in the where every you can find a stable spot. You can then add not so scrunched up tissue paper as opened flowers.

This is a good ongoing project as you can only do so much in a day then you need to let it dry. It is good to have a couple of 'trees' of different colours it creates a great effect.

Bonfire Collage

Bonfire Collage

Materials Needed

• Tissue Paper - Orange, Yellow, Red
• White A4 Paper
• Brown A4 Paper
• Leaves, Sticks and twigs
• Glue Stick

Method

Using the leaves an sticks you have found outside, or creating logs and leaves from the brown paper make the base of your bonfire on the white paper. After this has dried use the tissue paper in layers to create the fire on top. There is plenty of room for adaptation in this activity. Here are  some examples.