Craft Activities for Kids

Telephone Directory Holder – Quite a number of homes are now fitted with the telephone and one great trouble is to find a place to keep the telephone directories. These are rather bulky and do take up quite a lot of room. The simply made and quite handy holder illustrated will solve the question of their storage, besides being a …

Wall Table Tennis – This is a most popular game among boys and girls and it is quite possible for you to make a table tennis set that can be fixed to a table so that you can practice this fast and absorbing sport. The net is the all important feature to make and this constructed from mesh netting that …

Silk Screen – Your printing depends very largely on the screen so you must take the utmost care in making this important detail of the press. Make the screen from organdy (organdie) or taffeta, from a piece measuring 28 in. by 20 in. so that the ends will extend about 2 in. over each side of the wooden frame. Lay …

Silk Screen Printing – This is one of the most modern printing processes for colour work and is well within the scope of the amateur who has little or no knowledge of the art of printing. With the processes of and the equipment described, it will be quite possible for you to print your Christmas cards, menus, greeting cards, posters, …

Silk Screen Paints – To get the best results in your printing, you must, of course, use suitable paints. Use only the specially prepared paints that are sold in paste form for silk screen painting. These are oil based and need to be mixed with thinners before use. Use prepared thinners made of mineral spirits, the proportion being one of …

Squeegee – Fairly heavy paint is used in silk screen printing, so it is necessary to add this to the material by the following process. Construct a squeegee from a strip of ¼ in. thick rubber, with the overall measurements of 4 in. wide and about 1 ½ in. deep. This rubber is set in a rounded handle, made of wood, …

String Box and Cutter – It always seems a little difficult to find a piece of string about the house. Odd knotted lengths are unearthed from the most unexpected places and they never seem to be of the right size. Why not make a string box, with the added refinement of a cutter, and your troubles in frantically searching for …

Table Tennis Bat – These bats can be bought fairly cheaply at the sports shops but it is much more fun to make your own so that you can play this game of all made by yourself. Get a piece of plywood and mark out the shape as shown in the diagram. This is a 6 in. circle with a …

Ratchet Rattle – This is the perhaps the noisiest and the most effective rattle to make. You have probably been to football and other sport’s matches and you have heard the noise these aristocrats of the rattle can make. They can are most expensive to buy but there is no reason why you should not make one of these rattles, …

Ship in a Bottle – Everyone is mystified when they see a fully rigged ship sailing in a bottle, with the masts upright and the rigging in position. How does it get into bottle? Obviously the neck of the bottle is much too small for the ship to enter – well, here is a simple solution. The ship is built …