Craft Activities

A Junkfish craft tent full of fabulous free activities is a great way to make your event truly family friendly. Always incredibly popular with kids and their parents, we will help you choose the right activities for your event and budget. Extra options include our wonderful recycled junk ball run, hula hoops and circus toys, giant garden games, lego station, playdough café and a relaxed family chill out area.

We have dozens of 'make and take' activities to choose from. Here are a few popular choices - take a look at the gallery for more ideas.

• Cardboard guitars Choose from 3 designs - the Strat, the Gibson Flying V or the Classic. All carefully prepared ready to decorate and assemble.
• Ribbon skirts A favourite with children and teenagers. Our ribbon tutus are easy to make and look fabulous around a festival site.
• Shields Design and make your own cardboard shield (and a sword too if you like!)
• Grass heads Make your own grass head person to take home and watch the hair grow.
• Festival headdresses Simple to make but very effective and colourful - these are popular with all ages.
• Wings Decorate and then wear your own pair of beautiful butterfly or bat wings.
• Balloon squidgies Make your own characters from sand filled balloons. Kids love these, often returning to make more and more to add to their collection.
• Masks Create your own colourful mask with paint, glitter, feathers and lots of imagination.
• Junk modelling Kids love using our recycled materials and lots of imagination to design all manner of crazy creations.
• Dream catchers Made using woven willow rings and colourful ribbons.
• Large scale communal projects Murals, collages and decoupage, often themed to fit the event.
• Painted displays Kids love to paint! Everything from fish to flowers - all prepared ready to become works of art with a colourful backdrop to display them while they dry.

Other craft activities include junk bugs, crowns and tiaras, bracelets and bag danglers, hand puppets, badges, magic pictures, flappy birds, CD snails, flags, spoon puppets, fridge magnets, giant hands, fans, bunting, kites and top hats.

Other activities

• The Junk Ball Run Our famous ball run, made from decorated barrels, pipes and other colourful recycled junk is always incredibly popular. It has great visual impact and creates a wonderful focal point.
• Family Chill-out A relaxed space with rugs, cushions and beanbags, along with lots of books, magazines, puzzles and toys. A perfect place for young families to rest a while at a busy event.
• Playdough café Always incredibly popular and great for imaginative play. We make all our own playdough (recipe available on request).
• Giant hula hoops and circus equipment It’s easy to hula with a big hoop! These look fabulous - everyone will want a go. We can also provide circus skills equipment including stilts, diabolos, spinning plates, flower sticks, juggling balls and clubs.
• Garden games Giant jenga, chess, draughts, hoopla and noughts & crosses.
• Lego Station A plentiful supply of bricks with our lego experts on hand to help with a mix of free play and guided challenges.