For February’s Creativity Lab, we made giant cardboard donuts, and they looked good enough to eat!
The inspiration for this activity came from The ArtBar blog
If you would like to make a giant cardboard treat at home, you will need:
Cardboard
Colored construction or butcher paper
Glue
Tape
Sequins, glitter, confetti, pipe cleaner pieces, pom poms, styrofoam balls – any and all small objects that look like sprinkles. We even used colored rice from our sensory tub!
Wax paper (optional)
I was not able to collect enough large pieces of cardboard to make single donuts from, so I traced sections on four smaller pieces of cardboard, cut them out with a box cutter, and taped them together. Shout out to our awesome Teen Advisory Group who worked tirelessly to trace 40 of these sections for us – thanks, friends!!
However, if you have a big box or a nice big piece of cardboard at home, it would be easier to trace one big donut shape and cut it out.
After the donuts were assembled, we used a big piece of butcher paper as the frosting. First we traced the outline of the donut on the paper, and then we cut out the center hole and the outside in a wavy pattern to mimic frosting. Then we taped the frosting paper to the top of the donut.
Now comes the fun part – decorating! We simply painted on clear glue and sprinkled on our toppings! We worked in sections so the glue didn’t dry to quickly, and we used wax paper to press the sprinkles on the glue without sticking to our hands.
And that’s it! Such a super-fun art project for a cold, snowy night!
Join us at our next Creativity Lab, Thursday March 12th at 6 pm, where we’ll make bunny bowls inspired by this project on EasyDIYandcrafts.com
Miss Tess
