Tools:

2 Cardboard boxes
Cutter
Tape
4 wooden or plastic sticks
Stickers, coloured cloth, colors, paint to decorate the house.

Tips:

1. Place the cardboards on the floor
2. Take the first cardboard and cut the upper sides and one of the shortest in order to create a little door.
3. Take the second cardboard (same size) and position it on top of the first. It must be upside down! All sides must match.
4. Cut one of the shortest sides (make it match with the othe one in order to continue the little door)
5. Fix all sides with some tape
6. Strengthen your house by taping some wooden sticks in each corner
7. Drow a window on a side with the marker
8. Cut along and open the window
9. Colour and decorate your house as you want
10. Have fun!

Watch the tutorial video in the WATCH section!

Time: 20 minutes plus drying time
Age: Any age
Level: Medium/Easy

Materials:

Coloured fabric
1 Bed Sheet
Long stick
PVA glue
Scissors
Two long laces

Tips:

Take an old bed sheet.
Cut it just a little bit wider and taller than your door (Fig. 1)
Cut a square hole in the upper midlle (Fig. 2)
Fix along the hole the stick in order to keep it stiff (Fig. 3)
Glue your decorations around the window using coloured fabric (Fig. 4)
Add one lace on each upper side and hang it to your door (Fig. 5).
Let the show begin!

Scarica

Scarica

Scarica

Scarica

Time: 20 minutes plus drying time
Age: Any age
Level: Easy

Materials:

Coloured felt
PVA glue
Scissors
Thin elastic
Skewer

Tips:

Download the templates and print them.
Use it as a guide to cut the felt.
To create a stronger bond glue them, squash them flat and peel them off, then re-glue and re-stick.
Leave to dry then make a hole in each side of the mask with the skewer.
Take the elastic and measure the head.
Attach the elastic through each hole and tie with a knot.
Have fun!

Cupcakes

Preparation time: 15min
cooking time: 20/25 min
Vegetarian, (possibility Gluten free)
Dessert

Ingredients for 6 people (1 each):

1 egg
50gr melted butter
55gr sugar
70gr all purpose flour
15ml milk
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of vanilla flovour

Tools:

2 mixing bowls
wooden spoon or fork
muffin cups

Method:

Turn on the oven at 180C/360F.
Mix dry ingredients (sugar, flour, baking powder) in a bowl and the liquids (melted butter, eggs and vanilla) in the other, living out the milk.
Merge the ingredients in one bowl, adding milk while mixing.
Prepare the muffin cups: if they are silicon be sure that they are clean; if they are metallic put either some butter and flour inside, or paper cups.
Pour the mixture in the cups, filling 2/3 of each.
ABake them in the oven for 20/25 minutes, and check if they are ready inserting a chopstick in them: if it exit dry they are ready!
Take them out of the oven and let them cool.

Vanilla frosting

Preparation time: 15min
cooking time: 10 min
Vegetarian, (possibility Gluten free)
Dessert

Ingredients for 6 people (1 each):

250gr icing sugar
80gr unsalted butter, softened
25 ml milk
4 drops of vanilla flavour
food colouring (optional)
sprinkles (optional)

Tools:

mixing bowl
fork
electric whisk
spatula or palette knife

Method:

In the bowl mix the sugar with softened butter, starting with a fork, then with the electric whisk at lower speed.
In a glass mix milk, vanilla flavour and food colouring.
Pour milk in the the butter and icing while mixing.
Increase the power of the whisk and mix until the frosting become light and fluffy.
Once the cupcakes are cool, add the frosting using a spatula or a palette knife, and decorate with sparkling.

Jelly

Preparation time: 10min
rest time: 4h
Vegan (Gluten free)
Dessert

Ingredients:

coloured jelly powder
cold water
boiling water

Tools:

Mixing bowl
cups of glasses

Method:

Start with a colour, and follow the instruction on the sachet.
Pour the first colour in the cups, filling 1/3 of each.
Leave it resting for at least 1 hour in the fridge.
Repeat the operation with the second and third colour.
Let the entire jelly rest for other 2 hours.

Preparation time: 15min
Vegetarian (Gluten free)
Appetizer

Baby Mushrooms

Ingredients (6 mushrooms):

3 little tomatoes
6 little mozzarellas
1 Zucchini

Tips:

Take the zucchini, and cook into boiling water. Wash the tomatoes and cut them in half. Break in half the tooth pics. Skewer the mozzarella with half a tooth pic, leaving the pointed side visible. Hand half a tomato on top of the mozzarella, to create the cap of the mushroom. Cut the zucchini in two, along the lenght and carve some triangles to resemble the grass. Place your mushrooms in their grass, then enjoy!

Preparation time: 10min
Vegetarian (Gluten free)

Grape Caterpillars

Ingredients (for 3 caterpillars):

9 Green grapes (the smallest you can find)
1 Decorative chocolate souce
6 Baby Meringues
3 Toothpicks

Tips:

Place three grapes on each toothpick. Take two baby meringues and stick them on the tops sides of the first grape with a drop of chocolate sauce (as a glue). Then put another drop of chocolate on top of the meringues, in order to create the iris. Your caterpillars are ready!

Preparation time: 10min
Cooking time: 4min
Gluten free
Appetizer

Octopus

Ingredients for 1 people (2 each):

1 hot dog (wurstel)
1 black olives
green peas

Tools:

knife
serving bowl or dish
boiling pot

Method

Put water in a boiling pot, and let it boil. Meanwhile cut in half the hod dog; slice in half one of the parts, leaving 1cm connected in the rounded end.  Repeat it in order to create 4 legs. Cut every leg in half to create 8 legs. Do the same with the other part of the hot dog. Boil the 2 octopuses in the water for about 4 minutes, then take them off and let them cool a little. Create 2 little hole in every octopus, and place a tiny square of black olive to make the eyes. Put the octopuses on top of the peas, as they are swimming in a green sea.

Preparation time: 15min
Cooking time: 4min
Vegetarian (Gluten free)

Strawberry and Banana snakes

Ingredients:

1 pack of strawberries
1 banana
baby meringues
Decorative chocolate sauce

Needle and thread

Tips

Slice the strawberries, except for one, and bananas into medium-size slices. Insert into the needle the large strawberry first. Then line the sliced bananas and strawberries behind the large strawberry in a snake like pattern. Add the small tip of the strawberry at the end for a rattle tail. Place two dots of chocolate sauce on the bottom part of the meringues and stick them on the top sides of the large strawberry head. Place two more dots of chocolate on top of the meringues to make the iris. Your fruit snake is ready!

Preparation time: 10min
Vegetarian (Gluten free)

Zucchini Cars

Ingredients (2 cars):

2 Zucchini
4 Cherry tomatoes
4 Toothpicks

Tips

Boil the two succhini. Meanwhile cut the cherry tomatoes in half. Once the zucchini are ready, leave them cool. Then cut per each zucchini, 4 midium slices. Insert on the upper and bottom sides of the zucchini, two toothpicks. Than place the 4 slices on the toothpicks’ edges together with the cherry tomatoes halfs (the round side should be external). Brum brum, you have two cars!!