Craft Activities

• Colouring & Fact Pages

  Download our Colouring Pages PDF to try your hand at designing beautiful costumes, armour and jewellery. You can also find some fantastic facts about costume making at the RSC.

• Make a Dinosaur Puppet

  For ages 4 and up, with adult supervision

  Design and create a dinosaur puppet, inspired by Paapa Essiedu's dinosaur hat from the 2016 production of Hamlet. You can look at images from the show and search for other costumes on our website for more inspiration.

  You will need:

  • A paper plate
  • Glue
  • Coloured card
  • Double sided tape
  • 2 Lolly sticks
  • Anything else you might want to use to decorate your dinosaur 

  Instructions
  

  1. Colour the outside of your paper plate then fold it in half. This will be your dinosaur’s body. Will they be striped, covered in dots, all one colour?
  2. Cut out cardboard shapes for the head, spine and tail. Use the image below for ideas:
  3. Open your plate a little and glue on your dinosaur's head, spiky spine and tail along the plate's edge in the position you like.
  4. Use some little pieces of double-sided tape to close the edges of the plate.
  5. Using other crafty materials you might have at home, decorate your dinosaur. Where will its eyes be? Will it have wings or scales? Maybe add a face.
  6. Using the double-sided tape, stick a lollypop stick on either side of the folded edge of the plate to give your dinosaur legs and finish your puppet.

    

• Design an Eye Mask

  For ages 7 and up, with adult supervision

  Design and create a spectacular eye mask, inspired by various versions of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Take a look at costume designs from past productions of the show for more inspiration.

  You will need:

  • A sheet of coloured foam or coloured cardboard
  • A selection of fabrics and materials
  • A hole punch
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Ribbon or elastic
  • Anything else you might want to use to decorate your mask

  Instructions

  1. Cut out your eye mask from the cardboard or foam sheet. You can do this freehand yourself in the shape of your choice or print out the template to draw round and cut out.
  2. Select your preferred fabric(s) to start decorating your mask. Consider the colour, weight, pattern, texture and appearance of selected fabrics.
  3. Choose from the techniques below to decorate your mask.
  4. Use a hole puncher to create 2 holes and then add ribbon or elastic to complete and wear your mask!

  Please take care when using scissors, paint and/or glue.