Among winter sports activities, ice skating is one of the most common. People love to ice skate at their local skating rink, or frozen pond. Ice skating is a wonderful physical activity, and a great way to get out and enjoy the winter months. Watching graceful figure skaters on television or at a live presentation or competition is a favorite activity for many people of all ages. Ice skaters have that certain grace that is truly a beautiful sight to behold. That's why ice skating is so frequently photographed and videotaped.
The beauty of ice skating can also serve as the inspiration for some fun craft projects. This ice skating picture is easy enough for even a small child to create with just a bit of help. Your finished project will be beautiful enough to keep on display all winter. Here's how to make it.
Supplies Needed
- Piece of light blue card stock or construction paper
- Piece of white card stock or construction paper
- Piece of yellow card stock or construction paper
- Aluminum foil
- Cotton balls
- Fine-tipped black marker
- Small twigs
- Pictures of figure skaters
- Glue
- Scissors
- Cut the white card stock in half lengthwise, but instead of cutting in a straight line, make some subtle curves. Glue the cut out piece onto the bottom half of the blue card stock to make a snowy ground.
- Use the scrap of white card stock to cut out some cloud shapes, and glue them onto the blue sky. Cut a circle out of the yellow paper to make a sun, and glue it onto the sky as well.
- Cut an oval shape out of the aluminum foil. Glue it onto the white card stock with the shiny side up to make a reflective pond.
- Find some small pictures of figure skaters, either in a magazine or book or online. If you can't find any that are small enough, you could use a computer graphics program to resize them and print them out, or even draw some on white paper or card stock. Cut out the figure skater pictures and glue them onto the aluminum foil pond.
- Glue three cotton balls onto the “snow” in a vertical line to make a snowman. Draw a face and some buttons on with the marker, and glue two small twigs into place to make arms.
- Hang up your work of art for all to see!
Tips
- For best results, use heavy duty aluminum foil. Regular aluminum foil tears more easily, and might rip as you're gluing it onto the paper.
- To make sure your pond is smooth and bubble-free, use a craft stick to smooth it down after gluing it into place.
- If you want to make it look like it's snowing in your picture, you could splatter paint it once you've done all the cutting and pasting. Simply splatter white paint onto the picture with a toothbrush, and let dry.
