Rough Sketches

Below are my rough coloured sketches.

This is the idea that I had for the front cover and back cover of my activity book, it would feature a band which would go around the book that would include the title in it and the blurb on the back cover. I wanted the covers to be looked at by children and think how they would like to be doing these activities, hence why the majority of the back and front cover will be filled with images. Below are some examples of potential colour schemes which could be used if I was to choose this front and back cover for my activity book.

This is an idea I had for the "Cooking with Fire" double page spread, I have used a grid layout in order to make the spread look structured and attractive. Below are some colour scheme ideas that would have to be thought about when it comes to a more in depth design.

This is the "Bug Hotel" page which I have renamed to be the "Mini Beast Mansion", there is a grid structure present in this design also. The boxes in the design would be made from a wood/bark/tree trunk texture which would be flattened slightly so that the wording and images would look good and would be visible on top of the pattern.

Below are some better sketches which show more detail than the ones above.

Wood/bark textured planks of wood with information on them.
Detailed cartoons/real life diagrams of insects in the box with
the cross in it.

Wood grain/bark/tree trunk- realistic texture/cartoon texture.
Notice board style- pinned to the tree.

Ripped up paper with jottings down and stuck into the book using
tape.  Inspiration from Wreck My Journal.

Nature Walk/ Bushcraft Research -Little Owl Farm Park

Below are some images that I took whilst visiting the Little Owl Farm Park, at the park they had a nature walk which had the aim to get more children into the idea of wildlife and the environment. Despite the graphics of the below images not being up to standard for this standard of work, the idea and the content is still very useful.

Cut Out Activity Research

For the cut out activity, I am interested in doing a puppet of some sort related to the woodland theme but I realised that this is more suitable for children of a younger age (5-7 year olds) instead of that audience that I am aiming for which is the older audience (7-11 year olds). The older ages would want something more substantial like origami or something which takes a bit more skill as they have acquired it in this age group.

Below are some examples of the puppet idea to show how they are more suitable for a younger audience.

The last image is an example where the two age groups cross over, this is more for the older age group as there is more to it and it is definitely more complicated.

I decided to look at origami as an activity and found the following activity sheets on various different things you can make.

Cooking on a Fire Research

Below are the images that I found for inspiration and/or information for my double page spread on how to cook over a fire. As there is a lot of health and safety hazards with this particular task, there needs to be constant warnings and reminders for adults to be present at all times. I would like to include a few recipes on one of the pages of the double page spread as inspiration for the children as they are more likely to want to do the task if there is a specific example of what the outcome is going to be.

The aspect of cooking on a fire should be presented in a fun way but there should also be indications of how dangerous fire can be if you aren't supervised by an adult as it would be disastrous if a child was to see a fire/start a fire because they thought it was correct and not dangerous because of what it said in the book.

Bug Hotel Research

Below are various different examples of work related to the bug hotel. There are simplified instructions on how to create a bug hotel or a mini beast mansion which is what I plan on calling my bug hotel. The cartoon based images are photorealistic which means that the children would be able to look at them and know what they are in real life. These below images are all a starting point for the information that is going to go into my bug hotel/mini beast mansion page.