DIY ✂️ Mini Dinosaur 🦖 Torch 🔦 Projectors! This week is ‘Dinosaur Week’ on our home-learning journey and, honestly, it’s a topic that requires little encouragement for the Three Beans. All three of them just LOVE all things dinosaur related already! So, as something a little bit different, we thought we’d give this cool dinosaur craft a try and make ourselves some mini dinosaur torch projectors. The idea was to use these as an alternative to story spoons/puppets and spark their imaginations to act out and tell their own dinosaur stories! All you need to make these is: ✂️ Some empty toilet roll holders ✂️ Cling film ✂️ Sticky tape or an elastic band ✂️ Small dinosaur 🦕 shapes or stickers (I literally googled ‘dinosaur silhouettes’ and picked some images to print and cut out from there and, actually, you don’t even have to use dinosaurs, any shape would work!) ✂️ Optional paint/felt tip pens if you also want to decorate your torches ✂️ Smart phone or a small torch We decided to make this more of a craft activity, rather than just an imaginative play/role playing exercise, by decorating our torches first. We used a 1:2 poster paint/PVA (white school) glue mixture to paint our toilet rolls. Adding the glue to the paint made the colours more vibrant and gave the paint a slight sheen. It also meant that it wasn’t absorbed straight into the cardboard and so the different colours merged together to create a marbled effect when they dried. Though this step is totally optional and doesn’t affect how the projectors work, the kids enjoyed doing it and we thought they looked pretty cool! Once your toilet roll holders are dry, all you need to do is stretch a piece of cling film over the top then pop your dinosaur shape or sticker on the top. Sandwich your shape between another piece of cling film and then secure everything with a piece of sticky tape or an elastic band (we used tape). The smoother you can get the cling film, the better. Then, you’re all set and ready to go! In a darkened room, shine the torch on your smart phone (or an actual torch) down the toilet roll and project your image! 😃 #threebeansplaytime #3beansplaytime #dinosaurprojector #funkidscraft https://www.instagram.com/p/CCLax48nPCa/?igshid=3oeja2h2abfe