I Will Eat My Hat 

You Will Need:
• cling film
• kitchen towel
• rice paper
• food flavouring
• food colouring
• sweets
• iceing

•   Start off by getting a bowl that's slightly smaller than the hat you'd like to make. Turn it upside down on a piece of clean plastic.
•   Build up the shape around the bowl by folding up sheets of kitchen towel and sticking them on with tape. Cover the whole bowl this way.
•   When that's done, make it waterproof by adding a couple of layers of clear wrap or cling film over the top. Tuck underneath the bowl to secure in place.
•   The hat is made from rice paper which can be bought from most supermarkets. You'll need about two packs.
•   You'll use the rice paper in a similar way to paper maché - but you don't need any glue, just water!Fill a jug of cold water, and if you like, add some drops of liquid food flavouring to give your hat a taste!
•   Tear up the sheets of rice paper into strips, and paste them over the mould you've made by using a pastry brush dipped in the water.
•   Cover the whole hat in this way. Also, depending on the design of hat you want, remember to carry on over the plastic. As you can see here, this one is a baseball hat and has a peak.
•   When the pasted rice paper has dried you can start to decorate the hat. Use food colouring instead of paint. Use it undiluted and paint it on with a pastry brush. When you're finished, leave it to dry.
•   When it's dry, carefully peel the hat off the plastic and bowl mould.
•   Now you can now decorate your edible hat! All you need are colourful sweets and tubed icing which works very well as a sort of glue to stick them on with.
•   Stick the sweets on by putting a blob of icing on the hat first and then sticking the sweet in place.
•   For added realism, you can use black or dark-coloured tubed icing, or liquorice threads to represent any stitching.
•   That completes your edible hat. Highly fashionable, and yummy too!

Stainless Biscutes 
You Will Need:• 100g flour• 50g caster sugar• a pinch of salt• 50g butter• 1 egg• selection of boiled sweets

•   First, put the flour and caster sugar in a mixing bowl. Add the pinch of salt, and then add the 50g of butter. The butter needs to be chopped up into pieces before it goes in. Then work the whole lot together with your finger tips!•   When it looks like crumble, it's time to add an egg yolk. (To separate the yolk from the clear part of the egg, just drain the egg through your finger tips over a dish. The clear bit should drain through.)
•   Add the yolk, and start to mix again. You want the mixture to hold together. When it does, scoop it into a bowl and put it into the fridge for about half an hour.
•   When it comes out of the fridge, roll the dough onto a board like this. Then cut out the shapes that you want. Pastry cutters work best but you could use a blunt knife instead. Whatever shape you cut, remember to put a smaller shape in the middle, for the sweet!

•   And when you've made the shapes you want, transfer them onto a baking tray that's covered in baking paper.•   Add the sweets next, by just putting them into the holes in the pastry shapes.
•   If you've got a big hole to fill, use two sweets. And don't worry about trying different colours together - experiment!
•   If you want to hang any of your stainglass biscuits up, it's a good idea to make a small hole with a cocktail stick at this point, before they're baked. You'll find it much easier to hang them up this way!
•   Now you have to bake the stainglass biscuits. They go into the oven on 180 degrees or gas mark 4, for about 15 minutes. When they've cooked, put them aside and don't touch them for at least an hour - because they'll be very hot!
•   But, once they have cooled down, hang them up, and enjoy them for as long as you can.

Rainbow Sugar 

You Will Need:• four cups of sugar • one cup of water• a glass jar
• a lolly stick

•   Pour the water in a saucepan, and carefully heat it up.•   Add two cups of the sugar into the saucepan of water. Stir it until it dissolves. Be very careful because the mixture will be really hot - make sure you don't boil it at any time!
•   When the sugar's dissolved, add in the other two cups of sugar and again stir it until it has dissolved.
•   Take the sugar off the heat and keep stirring until the mixture has completely cooled down.
•   Add in your choice of food colouring to dye the sugar. The more you add the brighter the colour will be. •   Pour the mixture into a glass jar - a coffee jar is ideal. Fill the jar to to the top. Before you do this make sure you've washed the jar out thoroughly and that the sugar solution is fully cooled.•   To make the sugar crystals, tie some pieces of string to a lolly stick. Make sure the bits of string are longer than the height of the jar.
•   Dangle the strings into the jar and balance the lolly stick across the top of the jar. Then sit back and wait for your crystals to grow.
•   After about a day you should have some crystals formed - but the longer you leave it, the more crystals you'll get. When you've got a full string of sugar, take it out the jar and leave it to dry. •   When it's dry, snap the sugar of the string and put it in a Pestle and Mortar. Grind the crystals into smaller bits. Or you could put the crystals in a sandwich bag and bash them with a rolling pin.•   Try experimenting with different food colourings to get a complete rainbow of colours.

•   Pour the water in a saucepan, and carefully heat it up.•   Add two cups of the sugar into the saucepan of water. Stir it until it dissolves. Be very careful because the mixture will be really hot - make sure you don't boil it at any time!
•   When the sugar's dissolved, add in the other two cups of sugar and again stir it until it has dissolved.
•   Take the sugar off the heat and keep stirring until the mixture has completely cooled down.
•   Add in your choice of food colouring to dye the sugar. The more you add the brighter the colour will be.

Chocolate Ice Cream 
You Will Need: • large bowl • ice cubes• two tablespoons of double cream• four tablespoons of milk• two tablespoons of chocolate powder

•   First of all, you'll need a large bowl filled with ice cubes.•   You'll also need a glass which you fill with two tablespoons of double cream four tablespoons of milk and two tablespoons of sweetened chocolate powder - the kind you use to make chocolatey drinks!
•   Give it all a good stir. Now bury the glass in the middle of the bowl filled with ice.
•   Pour some salt onto the ice cubes and listen out for the crackling sound! Be careful not to spill any salt in the ice cream!
•   Put a clean, damp tea towel over the bowl and leave it for a couple of hours. •   The salt makes the ice melt, and it's the ice melting which freezes the mixture in the glass.•   After about an hour, give the mixture in the glass a stir. This will stop only the outsides from becoming frozen. You can do this from time to time, but always recover the whole thing with the damp tea towel.
•   After about another hour, you should have some finished chocolate ice cream. Yum!

         

Communication Lines

You Will Need:

• dry-wipe pen,
• lolly sticks,
• paint,
• paper fastener,
• bead,
• film cannister,
• lid,
• card,
• string,
•   The telegraph poles are made by sticking two large lolly sticks together, with two smaller lolly sticks in a cross shape.
•   Paint in a wood colour and then add a woodgrain effect by using a black permanent pen.
•   The conductors are made from paper fasteners and beads. Just thread a bead onto a paper fastener.
•   then sandwich in between the two smaller lolly sticks. Secure in place by opening out the paper fastener. Make four conductors in total for each telegraph pole.
•   The bases of the poles are made by sticking a 35mm film canister to a crisp tube lid. Fill the film canister with modelling clay, and use green card to create a grassy effect.
•   Stick each telegraph pole into the modelling clay, like this.
•   Just thread string in between both telegraph poles and then hang up pictures of your friends.
•   The pictures should be cut to the same size, and covered in clear sticky back plastic so that you can write you friend's details on with a dry wipe or non-permanent overhead projector pen.
•   And that's how to keep your Finger Tips communication line buzzing!

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Today's Tip is :When you have short colour pencils don't throw them away recycle them !

Crisp Packet bracelet

You Will Need:

Scissors
Cardboard
Crisp packets
Marker pen


Instructions
Step 1
Take a clean crisp packet and cut along the seam at the back and then along the base. Open the crisp packet out. Repeat the process until you have a stack of opened out packets.

Step 2
Make a template from old card (20cm x 10cm) , lay it over the opened out crisp packets and draw around it with a marker pen. Cut out the rectangle shapes you have drawn on each packet.

Step 3
Now you need to create components to build your crisp packet fashions. To make one component: Take your rectangle and fold it in half lengthways – this leaves a crease down the middle of the rectangle. Open this out and fold both the edges lengthways to the centre crease and fold in half. You should now have a long thin rectangle. Fold this rectangle in half lengthways and then fold two edges into the centre crease and fold in half again.

Step 4
Once you’ve made several components you need to slot them together. Take one component and locate the two flaps along its edges. Take a second component and slot each end into one of the flaps. The two components should now be joined together, forming an ‘L’ shape. Repeat this process to link several components together.

Step 5
Gradually they should start to form a long strip that you can use a belt or bracelet. When your belt or bracelet is ready, use another component to link it together. To do this, open a component out along its first two sets of folds and slot it through the flaps of the last component at one end of your bracelet/belt. Pull it through halfway, so the two ends of the linking component stick out. Tuck these into the flaps at the other end of the bracelet/belt to complete your creation. Alternatively you could use some Velcro or sticky tape!

   
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