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In your craft bag you will find a lucky dip of craftmaterials - coloured paper, string, tags, colouringpencils, chalk, paper plates and postcards. We hope you enjoy making you own artworks andcraft.  This booklet has a few ideas you might like to try. Have fun!

Resources: paper plate, string, colouring pencils, glue and colouredpaper Instructions: Decorate your paper plate in a snakey pattern using coloured paper and colouring pencils 2. Once the glue is dry, cut or tear your paper plateinto a spiral 3.Tie string to your mobile, or use tape if you have some, and hang it up Why not try making another paper plate animal?

Snake Mobile

You can see this python in IpswichMuseum. Pythons are one of the biggest snakes inthe world and live in Africa and Asia.

Did you know snakes don't have eyelids?

IIpswich Museums have lots of portraits. Portraitsare paintings of people. Sometimes people are painted with things that areimportant to them, for example a pet, books or inspecial clothes. Resources: paper, pencils Instructions: draw a portrait of yourself in theframe Cut this portrait our and use it for the MiniMuseum activity on the next page.

Portait of You

Collect objects that are important to you. Don't forget your selfportrait.Write a label for each object. Your label might tell people what theobject is, where it's from and what it's used for.Display your objects on a table or shelf. Ask a grown-up before youmove things!

Ipswich Museums have displays of paintings and objects. Some of theseare very old. We write labels to go next to the paintings and objects to tellpeople a bit more about them. Have a go at making a museum all aboutyou. Resources: paper, pencils Instructions: 1.

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What things would you like to see on display in a museum?

Mini Museum

Photos of displays in Ipswich Museums

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