A Mask for the King of the Birds

A painted half face mask with a papier-mâché cone as the beak and lovely feathers around the edge.

1. Paint the mask with acrylic paint, mix the colours and put a bit of water onto the brush.

2. Cut a small cone to form the beak of the mask. Paint the beak and glue it onto the mask with a glue gun.

3. Attach feathers and down with a glue gun and attach the supplied elastic headband.

Wind Chimes

Small flower pots and giant lolly sticks decorated with color paint and glass mosaic.

1. Drill holes in both ends of all the giant lolly sticks.

2. First paint the flower pots with pale yellow, then dab with brilliant red and dusty blue. Paint the giant lolly sticks in the same colours.

3. Glue on glass and mirror mosaic tiles using paverpol. Let the flower pots dry for 24 hours.

4. Apply mosaic tile grout with a palette knife. After approx. 5-10 minutes drying time, wash off any excess grout with water and a sponge.

5. Thread the cotton twine through the holes and assemble the wind chime.

Vases of Self-hardening Clay

These are lovely decorative vases made from self-hardening clay with stamped designs. Test tubes are decorated with flax twine. An icon decorated with beach shells.

1. Make a template from an ordinary drinking glass. Add approx. 1cm to the length for the closing.

2. Roll clay into the appropriate thickness and cut out using the template.

3. Make your chosen pattern in the clay with the stamps.

4. Lubricate the glass with cooking oil and put the clay around the glass.

5. Seal the joint.

6. Carefully remove the clay vase from the glass.

7. Let the vase dry for a minimum of 24 hours.

8. Tie flax twine around the test tubes.

9. Arrange the test tubes randomly in the vase.

10. The icon is made with a stamped design, varnished in a few places and decorated with flax twine and beach shells.