Tell Hobbycraft about your DCs artsy school projects - x3 £100 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[MichelleMumsnet]

Hobbycraft have asked us to find out what artsy school projects Mumsnetters have been helping their DCs with.

Here's what Hobbycraft say, "Kids are back at school, and that can only mean one thing #SchoolProjects.

"Every parent knows that it can be difficult to know where to start with school projects. Well, have no fear! Hobbycraft are here to help. We have created 25 step-by-step School Project guides showing you everything you need to make school curriculum based projects that are fun to make with your kids and sure to earn top marks!

"We've design the projects around the first three Key Stages, included everything you need to make them, easy to follow instructions, template downloads plus loads of helpful tips and interesting bits of information along the way. Whether it's making a Viking helmet, an Egyptian costume, a Roman Castle or Solar system model - School Projects have never been so fuss free and fun!

Visit the Kids' Craft section on the Hobbycraft blog to find the School Project guides."

So, what have your DCs been making for their school projects? Or if they're not currently working on anything at the moment, what's your favourite school project they've made? Maybe it's a science project of an epic model of the night sky with all the different constellations? Or perhaps a very technical drawing with hieroglyphics written on it for history class? Whatever it is, we'd love to hear it.

Please also feel free to add pictures of any of your DCs school projects, we'd love to see them!

Everyone who adds their comments to this thread will be entered into a prize draw where 3 Mumsnetters will win a £100 Hobbycraft voucher!

Thanks,
MNHQ

[TheSpottedZebra]

My favourite project so far has been 'make an African animal'. I liked it as it was so broad - ie the children could use what they had rather then have expensive, hard to find stuff specified. It also meant that (hopefully) the children would make it themselves or with just a bit of help, rather than it be a parent competition.

DS made a papier mache hippo and he thoroughly enjoyed it. He chose the animal, and I 'guided him' to doing papier mache, but he did most of it. Hippo lives in the dining room now, and DS is still v v proud of him, and made him a baby over the summer. Out of papier mache.

[Thegentlemonkey]

DS made a dream catcher with all natural materials found outdoors - think sticks, leaves, feathers etc. He's proud of it as he had to search for all the material, & it hangs from his wardrobe now.

[frangipan]

we had to make a wizard of Oz themed mask. It was really fun. We did the cowardly lion and my DD foraged the garden for lots of twirly twigs which she then painted yellow, gold and orange, some were glittered, for his mane which splayed out from a round mask with the face painted on, 360 degrees, all the way around. It was brilliant, her own design!

[ShatnersBassoon]

When he was in infants, DS made a brilliant owl ornament from modelling clay for a project about nocturnal animals. It's very simple, but it is so clearly an owl and he used such clever ways to represent the distinguishing features he knew about. It's on my kitchen windowsill still, one of the few possessions I'm sentimental about .

[kierie]

We made the planets from papier mache balloons. It was great for finding out about their shapes, sizes and colours.

[PurpleSkyatthewateringhole]

We have two weeks to make a castle. I'm quite artistic but I don't think even I could do an accurate architectural 3d castle inside 2 weeks. I'm going to have to let the 6yr old loose with loo roll tubes and cardboard boxes aren't I?

[Liney15]

DD made a space rocket a few months ago (with Dh assistance) out of a giant box which arrived fortunately. She loved making it and designing flaps etc to go on the side and when it came home was constantly played with as she was so pleased with it. First photo is of the designer at work and second one, the finished rocket.

[Liney15]

Second photo as couldn't post two at the same time!

[Anononooo]

A fantastic scroll that was a timeline of inventions with drawings. It was done on the back of wallpaper and was 4 metres long.

[wannabestressfree]

A favourite of ours and one that made the paper was my son's collage of the Queen made out of thousands of tiny bits of paper. He just got stuck in -literally....
Hobbycraft wise our 'best buy' was the individual letters you can purchase. We had a child find his young brother dead in tragic circumstances and we made him a memory box with his name on it. He carried it round for months bless him.

[del2929]

HERE ARE SOME OF MY FAVES-
1- mosaic clock
2- king tuts death mask
3-viking sword and shield

my DC gets alot of arty/crafty homework... so we salavage alsorts of materials from daily life(wrappers,boxes,lids,button) just case we can use it on a project lol

[Theimpossiblegirl]

DD is currently working on an up-cycled mirror for DT. It is still in the design stage at the moment and she's gathering old jewelry, beads etc. I think she was inspired by something she saw in Accessorize. :)

[leanne2015x]

We are in the middle of making a christmas card box for my little girls school to post all the christmas cards in the box will be nearly 6ft made from cardboard and decorated with all sorts to make it stunning and christmasy!

[WidowWadman]

A model of Roald Dahl's great gobstopper plot of 1924. Painted cotton balls as gob stoppers and Maus made out of felt. All her own idea and execution (topic was to research an author and find a way of presenting findings)

[asuwere]

My fav was Ds task to make a castle from junk. The best but was that he decided his grandad should help him and not me! I do like doing crafty things but I have a tendency to take over to get it done 'right'. Ds loved making it though and still has it and plays with it.

[CopperPan]

DD and DS made a little kitchen out of large cardboard boxes which we'd had furniture delivered in. They had a cooker, washing machine and fridge! They became quite complex in the end, with shelves for the fridge and cooker and they used to play with them with real pans and empty food packets.

[Twirlypoos]

My favourite was the halloween lamp from a milk carton with lots of colouring and fun foam

[FlukeSkyeRunner]

I think the best so far has been a hat for world book day - we did octonauts and DD loved it.

[TheWildRumpyPumpus]

DS1 had to make the Great Fire of London out of cardboard boxes. Sadly he gets his creative abilities from me and it didn't quite have the fiery vibe that he was hoping for at the start.

[mugglingalong]

Dd made a tudor village. As it was in the run up to Christmas we decided to put fairy lights in the buildings to light it up and make it Christmas time. It comes out each year now to add to the decorations.

[MerryMarigold]

Not strictly a project (thank God his school doesn't really go in for those), but ds1 decided he wanted to make a 3D model of the different layers of the rainforest. It was good fun! I think part of the fun is the originality of the idea (love that fire of London one a PP had) and trying to find the stuff to make it with. Of the Hobbycraft kits mentioned, I have not heard of anyone needing to do those (do they all go to private school?) and can't really see the point of a kit. It would be a bit embarrassing if 2 kids brought the same project back! Teacher: ohhhhhh, you used a kit.

[MerryMarigold]

A summer holiday project (not from school) was to make a lampshade from Lego. It's pretty awesome!

[Cherrybellyboo]

We haven't done many yet, but last Easter we had to make an Easter bonnet. Dd loved painting eggs and sticking them on and buying little chicks to decorate it :)

[sharond101]

DS is at nursery we've been learning "All about me" and made a family tree and a tree out of his handprints.