ROCK BAND

How to turn ordinary rocks and stones from the garden into your own rock band! You will need: a large round stone cardboard box card poster or acrylic paint a fine black felt pen scissors

Find an oval stone that’s quite smooth. Take a piece of cardboard box card. Lie the pebble down, and line it up so that the bottom of the pebble is lined up with the bottom of the card.

Draw around the pebble, just to get the shape, and put the pebble to one side.

Decide what rock musician you want to make. This one will be a guitarist. Just draw your chosen musical instrument onto the shape of the pebble, so that the bottom of the instrument sits along the bottom of the card. Try to draw it so that the bottom edge of the instrument is flat, because this will help it to stand up.

Once you’ve drawn it, it’s ready to be painted. Paint it in nice bright colours, using poster or acrylic paint. Once you’ve painted it, cut it out, and you’ll have something that looks like this. It’s a good idea to go over all the detail in a fine black felt pen.

Next, you need to create your rock musician. Take the stone, and hold the instrument roughly in place. Make a mark just above the instrument.

Use a pen or pencil to draw in the character. Draw the facial features above the mark you’ve just made, so that you can see them above the guitar.

When you’re happy with the design, paint it. It’s very important that you use acrylic paint if possible, but you can use poster paint. Just remember to mix it with PVA glue so that it will stick to the stone, rather than flake off!

When you’ve painted the whole thing, and let it dry, you’ll have something that looks like this.

Finally, you need to add some PVA glue (don’t mix it with water this time) on the back of the instrument, and stick it down on your musician. You'll have to hold it into place until the glue has dried. You could do other instruments as well, like a keyboard player, a singer or a drummer, or you could design your own rock footballers! Try it yourself!

CREEPY HAND

Sometimes, when you're alone at night and it's dark and quiet, do you ever get that feeling that something is not quite right? Well now you can make creepy hands to scare people! You will need: newspaper sticky tape poster or acrylic paint tissue paper or kitchen roll PVA glue

Scrunch up some newspaper into a square ball, roughly about the same size as your palm, and attach plenty of tape to hold it together.

Scrunch up another ball that's slightly smaller for the wrist.

Then roll five sausage shapes of newspaper for the fingers and thumbs. Tape them securely into position.

Next, add veins and tubes coming out of the wrists. Use some twisted newspaper and stick it to the wrists. You could roll up some paper for broken bones. To finish off, create gnarled nails by cutting out shapes from cardboard. When you've finished, tape everything together securely.

For the skin, mix PVA glue in equal parts with water, and slap it all over the hand.

Lay on bits of kitchen roll, loo roll or tissue paper. Make sure you tuck the paper into every nook and cranny. You don't need to go over the veins and bones coming out of the wrists.

Leave it to dry, then paint it.

Using poster or acrylic paint, slap on monster-like colours.

When you've painted it all, and added on all the detail, you'll have something that looks like this. A horrible hand you could leave around the house to scare people. Try it yourself!