Moonlight cards
- Timescale:
- Around 30 mins.
- Materials:
- Coloured card, white card, scissors, Blu-tac or glue, pencil or pen, black paint, roller, glitter or powder paint, cotton wool, sandpaper, silver foil.
- Step 1:
- Using a large piece of coloured card cut out various silhouettes of a gnarled old tree, a snowman, a house, a big moon etc.
- Step 2:
- Place onto a largish piece of folded white card. (You may find it easier to stick down the silhouettes using Blu-tac or a small amount of solid glue-stick.) Don't forget to draw a horizon line roughly half-way down the card.
- Step 3:
- Using black paint and a roller, paint over the cut-outs and try not to paint below the horizon line!
- Step 4:
- Before the paint dries peel off the cut outs revealing brilliant white images beneath.
- Step 5:
- Finish off by sprinkling glitter over the wet paint to represent stars. (In the absence of glitter, white dry powder paint is a good substitute.)
- Step 6:
- You can add to this by sticking cotton wool to the "ground" part of the card and to the branches of the trees, sandpaper for the tree bark, scrunched-up silver foil for the moon and glitter poured through the fingers has a nice feel to it.
- Handy hints:
- Make sure your materials are non-toxic.
- Take care with sharp objects.
- The activity can be used as a remembering session.
- Please read the Things you need think about first section section before you prepare for this activity.
- Credit:
- Sense Scotland arts team December 2005.