Things to gather together:-
Some cardboard (old cereal box)
PVA glue
Some leaves from the park or garden
(If you can’t get out to collect them, cut out leaf shapes from brown paper envelopes)
- Go into the garden, to the park, or anywhere that you can see some trees. Gather up some handfuls of leaves, trying to pick out the ones that are whole and not damaged. Look under different trees and see if you can find different shapes and colours. Take them home and spread them out on an old cloth to dry out in the sun.
- Draw a hedgehog shape on the cardboard, the nose is a triangle and the body a big oval. Add some legs!
- Cut around your drawing so you have the shape of a hedgehog. If you wanted to you could paint or colour his face and feet brown. I didn’t because I liked the brown of the cardboard I used.
- When your leaves are dry, glue them one by one and cover your hedgehog with them. If you start at his bottom and work towards his head the leaves lay over each other like spikey spines! When you are happy with it, put a weight on it to stop the leaves curling up as they dry. I used a box with some tins in it.
- Leave it to dry (takes HOURS) but you do need to wait. Then you can give your hedgehog a nose and an eye! I’ve used small black buttons, you could colour them or use a bit of black felt. Then paint glue really carefully all over the leaves, I was a bit worried here as they went all white, but when the glue dries it makes the leaves super shiny and less breakable.
There are lots of things you can do with your hedgehog, stick him on a card to give to someone for their birthday, or send to a grandparent, or stick on your bedroom wall (that’s where mine is going). You could make a whole family of them!
Find some lovely leaves. What colour is your favorite?
Draw a hedgehog shape on a piece of cardboard
Cut the shape out but be careful!
Glue the leaves on to your hedgehog but leave the face clear
Draw a face on your hedgehog and he or she is ready for whatever adventure you have planned!