Get ready for Diwali with a bright Egg-Box Marigold Toran! Children aged 5-9 can transform egg boxes into a colourful doorway garland to welcome guests. A lovely 50-minute craft for the festive run-up. 🪔 #DiwaliCrafts #JunkModelling
Egg-Box Marigold Toran
Children turn egg boxes and paper into a toran, a decorative garland of marigold flowers and mango leaves hung over the doorway at Diwali to welcome guests and bring good fortune. They practise…
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October 28, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Get ready for Diwali with a bright Egg-Box Marigold Toran! Children aged 5-9 can transform egg boxes into a colourful doorway garland to welcome guests. A lovely 50-minute craft for the festive run-up. 🪔 #DiwaliCrafts #JunkModelling
Get ready for Bonfire Night with a cosy craft! Children aged 4-7 can build a glowing tissue-flame bonfire using cardboard tubes and a battery tea light, learning fire safety along the way. 🎆 #BonfireNight #JunkModelling
Glowing Tissue-Flame Bonfire
Builds a pretend bonfire from cardboard-tube logs and tissue-paper flames that glows with a battery tea light. Along the way children learn that a real fire needs fuel, heat and air, and the Bonfire…
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October 26, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Get ready for Bonfire Night with a cosy craft! Children aged 4-7 can build a glowing tissue-flame bonfire using cardboard tubes and a battery tea light, learning fire safety along the way. 🎆 #BonfireNight #JunkModelling
Brighten up a bedroom with a colourful Wool Pom-Pom Garland! Children aged 5-11 wind wool and snip fluffy balls while learning sequencing and fine motor skills. Takes about 45 minutes. 🧶 #kidscrafts #junkmodelling
Wool Pom-Pom Garland
Winding wool round and round and snipping it into fluffy balls teaches how many small threads bundle into a shape, and threading them builds counting and sequencing.
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September 30, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Brighten up a bedroom with a colourful Wool Pom-Pom Garland! Children aged 5-11 wind wool and snip fluffy balls while learning sequencing and fine motor skills. Takes about 45 minutes. 🧶 #kidscrafts #junkmodelling
Turn old boxes, tin cans, and bottle caps into a brilliant Junk Robot! This easy 45-minute project lets kids aged 4-12 practise design and imagination using everyday items. Low mess and low adult help needed. 🤖 #JunkModelling #KidsCrafts
Junk Robot
Design and imagination - planning a build from the parts you have.
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September 28, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Turn old boxes, tin cans, and bottle caps into a brilliant Junk Robot! This easy 45-minute project lets kids aged 4-12 practise design and imagination using everyday items. Low mess and low adult help needed. 🤖 #JunkModelling #KidsCrafts
Turn old recycling into a homemade drum kit in 30 minutes! Children aged 3-9 explore how different container sizes change sound pitch using tins and wooden spoons. Low mess, high fun! 🥁 #JunkModelling #KidsCrafts
Junk Drum Kit
Different containers make different sounds — big and hollow is deep, small and tight is sharp.
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September 25, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Turn old recycling into a homemade drum kit in 30 minutes! Children aged 3-9 explore how different container sizes change sound pitch using tins and wooden spoons. Low mess, high fun! 🥁 #JunkModelling #KidsCrafts
Turn a cardboard box into a shiny space helmet! Children learn why astronauts need sealed helmets in airless space while building their own wearable kit. Perfect for ages 4-10. 🚀 #KidsCrafts #JunkModelling
Astronaut Helmet
Making a wearable helmet from a box teaches you why real astronauts need a sealed helmet to breathe and stay safe in space, where there is no air.
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September 23, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Turn a cardboard box into a shiny space helmet! Children learn why astronauts need sealed helmets in airless space while building their own wearable kit. Perfect for ages 4-10. 🚀 #KidsCrafts #JunkModelling
We think 'junk modelling' is a complete misnomer because, when it comes to creating, nothing is really junk!
#junkmodelling #expressiveartanddesign #processart #childledlearning #openendedplay #reggioemilia #reggioinspired
#junkmodelling #expressiveartanddesign #processart #childledlearning #openendedplay #reggioemilia #reggioinspired
April 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We think 'junk modelling' is a complete misnomer because, when it comes to creating, nothing is really junk!
#junkmodelling #expressiveartanddesign #processart #childledlearning #openendedplay #reggioemilia #reggioinspired
#junkmodelling #expressiveartanddesign #processart #childledlearning #openendedplay #reggioemilia #reggioinspired
Do you think grandson is going to like his new cardboard car we made him today?
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#babytoys
#hobbycraft
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February 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Do you think grandson is going to like his new cardboard car we made him today?
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#junkmodelling
#babytoys
#hobbycraft
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#babytoys
... Spaces are limited and we will be taking bookings for this event from Wednesday 6th august. childrenslibrary@cardiff.gov.uk
#SummerReadingChallenge #YourCentralLibraryHub #Summer #JunkModelling #Garden
#SummerReadingChallenge #YourCentralLibraryHub #Summer #JunkModelling #Garden
July 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
... Spaces are limited and we will be taking bookings for this event from Wednesday 6th august. childrenslibrary@cardiff.gov.uk
#SummerReadingChallenge #YourCentralLibraryHub #Summer #JunkModelling #Garden
#SummerReadingChallenge #YourCentralLibraryHub #Summer #JunkModelling #Garden
Going to make my first post here one of my favourite models built during the early days of Covid lock-down in 2020. A #Truckasaurus for the post-apocalyptic tabletop game #Gaslands made from old #Hotwheels and recycled junk parts. #Trashbasher #Junkmodelling #COTM #CarOfTheMonth #artist #modelmaker
November 15, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Going to make my first post here one of my favourite models built during the early days of Covid lock-down in 2020. A #Truckasaurus for the post-apocalyptic tabletop game #Gaslands made from old #Hotwheels and recycled junk parts. #Trashbasher #Junkmodelling #COTM #CarOfTheMonth #artist #modelmaker