Samantha Scarborough - Kids Market Day

You can decorate your stalls however you like.

There are a few essentials that every stall seller will need:

• A moneybox
• A table
• A tablecloth
• A shop sign
• Paper serviettes (only when food or drinks are being sold)
• Paper plates (only when selling food)
• Labels and price tags

Where you need something other than the above essentials, it has been listed under the heading For the stand in each project. For more ideas, refer to the photographs.

The stalls are all about giving children the opportunity to create something beautiful, so use different coloured fabrics, colourful bunting, balloons, ribbons etc.: anything that will make a stall vibrant and inviting.

An all-time quick and easy favourite, animal masks can be made out of paper plates. If you can sew, make a fox mask using felt!

time: 3 hours

We had such fun making paper plate masks, especially when pasting on the cotton wool for fur!

ANNABELLA

Stall: Animal masks

Stall seller: Annabella, age 5

Product: Masks priced from R5 per mask

• white cardboard
• scissors/craft knife
• orange, white and maroon felt
• needle and thread/sewing machine
• craft glue

• paper plates
• coloured paper
• hat elastic
• pieces of brown paper

• spare masks to wear

1. 1. Draw two separate outlines on cardboard, first of the fox face, then of the whiskers and eyes. Cut out both to use as templates.
2. 2. Secure the template of the fox face on the orange felt with pins. Cut out small felt triangles for the ears from the white felt and glue into place on the fox face, as show above.
3. 3. Sew the cut-out to the maroon felt, then cut away the backing felt, leaving a 1 cm border around the fox face.
4. 4. Place the whiskers template on white felt and cut out. Glue the whiskers into place as shown in photographs above.
5. 5. Cut out a small maroon felt circle for the nose and paste just below the centre of the eyes. Cut a small hole on each side of the mask and thread through some elastic to secure the mask to your face.
6. 6. Carefully cut out the eyes.

1. 1. On the grey side of a paper plate, draw two circles for the eyes just above the centre line and cut them out.
2. 2. Cut out two ears from the inner circles of the grey side of two paper plates.
3. 3. Draw two small circles on pink cardboard, cut them out and paste them onto the grey ear circles (as shown).
4. 4. To make the snout, draw an oval that is slightly wider than a paper plate on white cardboard, then draw two small circles for the nose, two teeth at the bottom and a mouth, as shown below.
5. 5. Cut out the snout, carefully cutting around the nose and teeth. Using a craft knife, carefully cut out the two inner circles of the nose.
6. 6. Paste the snout into place on the paper plate cut out as shown. Secure the ears in place using craft glue.
7. 7. Make a small hole on each side of the paper plate and thread through an elastic to secure the mask to your face.

TIP:

You can make any animal mask from a paper plate.

1. 1. Cut out the mouse face from a piece of brown paper as shown. Then carefully cut out two circles for the eyes.
2. 2. For the ears, cut out two paddle-shaped forms (a circle at the top and a handle at the bottom) from another piece of brown paper. Cover the handles in glue and paste them to the top inside of the mask with the circles protruding.