A MAGICAL ADVENTURE

MONDAY 11 – SUNDAY 31 DECEMBER

THE SALBERG, SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE

ADVENT CALENDAR

Christmas is coming and little Robin is very excited. To help him count down the days,

Mummy and Daddy have given him an advent calendar. Behind every window is an

activity. Join Robin as he links the pictures together with the activities in this pack.

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Rocking Robin Craft

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4

Melted Snowman Biscuits

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6

Christmas word search

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8

Dot to Dot

9 10

Handprint robins

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Christmas cookies

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Little Robin Colouring

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Bright shining star

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Wreath Painting

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Christmas Song

21 22

Christmas game

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A snowy scene

colouring

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ROCKING ROBINS

What you will need:

1. Coloured cardboard or an old cereal box

2. Glue and scissors

3. Red tissue paper torn in to small pieces and scrunched up

4. Coloured card cut into a triangle for the beak

5. Strips of coloured card for the tail

STEP 1:

Take your piece of card and draw around a circular plate or glass depending on how big you want your

Rocking Robin to be

STEP 2:

Cut out your cardboard circle and fold it in half

STEP 3:

On both halves of your cardboard circle, glue and stick down the scrunched up pieces of tissue paper to

make the red breast of your robin

STEP 4:

Fold your triangle card in half and stick in place for your robin’s beak, and add the strips of card for the

tail

STEP 5:

Tap your robin and watch it rock!

MELTED SNOWMAN BISCUITS

What you will need:

1. Rich tea biscuits

2. White marshmallows

3. Green & Red smarties, skittles or m&m’s

4. Red & Green laces or gummy snakes for the scarf

5. Icing sugar mixture

6. Dark chocolate writing icing to decorate

Step 1:

In a bowl, make up your icing

Step 2:

Spread or drizzle your icing on to your biscuits to create the melted snowman body

Step 3:

Whilst the icing is still moist, add your marshmallow for the head and your choice of sweets for

the scarf and the buttons

Step 4:

Leave the icing to set

Step 5:

Using your icing pen, add the snowman’s eyes, nose, mouth, arms and hands

CHRISTMAS WORDSEARCH

What to do: Find the Christmas words hidden in Santa’s jumbled

letter grid

CHRISTMAS TREE SLEIGH CANDY

PRESENTS RED STAR

SANTA CLAUS DECEMBER STOCKINGS

What to do: Join together the letters from A-Z and help Robin

discover the Christmas picture.

DOT TO DOT

DOT TO DOT

What to do: Join together the dots from 1-41 and help Robin

discover the Christmas picture

HANDPRINT ROBINS

What you will need:

1. Red Paint 2. Brown Paint 3. Coloured Card 4. Yellow Card or colouring pen 5. White paper 6. Glue 7. Black pen 8. Scissors 9. Paint Brush

Step 1:

Paint the palm of your hand red and your fingers and thumb brown

Step 2:

Print your hand on to white paper once or multiple times depending on how many hand print robins you

want to make, and let the paint dry

Step 3:

Cut out your hand prints

Step 4:

Stick your hand prints onto card

Step 5:

Add a yellow beak, an eye and feet with your yellow card/pen and black pen

CHRISTMAS COOKIES

What you will need:

Ingredients for about 40 biscuits:

1. 180g cold butter

2. 200g of icing sugar

3. 350g plain flour

4. 1 large egg

5. 1 egg yolk

6. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

7. Pinch of salt

In addition:

1. 50g of milk or dark chocolate melted or icing pen

2. Red smarties, skittles or m&m’s for the nose

3. Cling film

Step 1:

Pre heat the oven to 180c

Step 2:

Put all of your ingredients in to a bowl and blend or mix together until you have a ball of dough

Step 3:

Wrap your dough in cling film and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes

Step 4:

After cooling, tear pieces of dough, roll at a thickness of about 3mm lightly with flour and cut out your

cookies

Step 5:

Place dough cookies on to a baking sheet that has been lined with baking paper

Step 6:

Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes until golden brown

Step 7:

Decorate your biscuits

LITTLE ROBIN COLOURING

BRIGHT SHINING STAR

What you will need:

1. 6 lolly pop sticks

2. Glue

3. Glitter

4. Thread

Step 1:

Take 3 of your lolly pop sticks and stick them in to a triangle. Then do the same with the other 3 lolly

pop sticks and leave them to dry

Step 2:

Turn one triangle over and stick the two together to form a star

Step 3:

Cover the star in glue and sprinkle glitter all over it, leave to dry and then repeat on the other side

Step 4:

Tie a piece of thread through one of your points to hang as a Christmas decoration

WREATH PAINTING

What you will need:

1. A clean washing up brush or similar

2. Small paint brush

3. Green paint

4. Red paint

5. Plain or coloured card

6. Decoration of your choice

Step 1:

Dip your brush in your green paint and on a piece of card dab the brush repeatedly to create a circular

wreath

Step 2:

With your smaller paint brush and red paint, add your berries at random on your wreath

Step 3:

Decorate your wreath

Cut out your reindeer pieces

and get building!

A SNOWY SCENE