Please help - half term assignment - DS 4yo in reception - art & craft help needed!

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OK so DS is to "do an igloo". Provided by the teacher is a piece of wrapping paper (light blue and white).

er....I am stuck .

Please tell me how to make some sort of igloo picture. DS can only say that he must "do an igloo".

Any help very greatly appreciated!

semicircle with a smaller semicircle doorway?

Ok, buy an Easter egg (early I know)
Take the egg out (and eat it, obv.)
Cut the hard plastic prtector in half so you have 2 egg shapes (one from each side). Discard one. Trim all the non-egg sidey bits off the other one.
Cut rectangles out of the paper, about 1 inch by 2inches each.
Using PVA glue stick the paper shapes onto the outside of the plastic egg wrapping.

If you want to be ultra correct, cut an inch or so off the middle of a toilet roll, then chop it in half, cover in paper and fix to the main igloo. This is your entrance.

Voila. Pingu would be proud.

what mrz said.

Depending how much ds enjoys crafts you/he could cut out rectangular 'bricks' from the wrapping paper for him to stick on a semicircle. cut out a little door.

or print out/draw a picture of an igloo to stick on the wrapping paper?

Blow up a balloon, cover it in glue and ripped up newspaper (lots of layers), then use the paper from school for the final layer/s. When it is dry, pop the balloon and cut the paper shell in half length ways, making an igloo shape!! You will have 2 igloos actually. Hope that helps

Thankyou all so much! Really helpful as I am not great at this sort of thing.

mrz, love the idea that hwk should involve chocolate eating

don't use a loo roll though - kitchen roll safer as some schools (mine included) don't allow loo rolls.

Why can't they have loo roll? Ooh - germs?

Although it is an urban myth www.hse.gov.uk/myth/august.pdf

OFFS they can't use loo roll!!! The little wotsits have a pee and a poo at school, don't wash anything they should, eat their lunch etc etc and they are full of germs!! That's why today's kids have no immunity!! My mum didn't have all those cleaners/cleaning stuff etc, just basic hygiene and we all survived, with hardly any bugs/virus'. We all got chickenpox, measles etc and lived... All seven of us. FFS!!

I know it's daft but some schools have policies about these things -including no cotton wool incase it is inhaled! Oh, and not using food (eg lentils, pasta rice) in art work because some countries don't have enough to eat, others should not be sticking food on bits of paper....I am sure there are more!

There were lots of these daft ideas going around a few years ago bobala which is why the Health and Safety Executive started to publish their "Myth of the Month" on their website... it looks like your school hasn't got the message yet!

Sugar cubes would make a delicious igloo...but you would need to 'i-gloo' them together :)
It is too early for terrible puns, I am going back to bed

The food one was an Australian girl working at our school - she was adamant about never ever having dried food for art activities as that was how they had been trained in Aus.

You could use one of those microwave pudding basins as a base for sticking the papaer on - easier to put aside mid-project, it won't roll away! :)

sugar cubes make a fab igloo - really impressive end product - would use the wrapping paper as a base