For this craft, your creative collaborator will be the sun! Making your sundial doodle will take a few hours, but you don’t need to be there all that time – you just need to check in once an hour, then do some doodling at the end.

Supplies:

  • Paper
  • Pens
  • Blue tak

Instructions:

Part One: Sundial

Step 1 – Set up your piece of paper in a sunny spot. (Rise and shine, campers – the best time to do this is the morning!) If you’re setting up your sundial doodle outside, make sure to weigh it down with some books so it doesn’t blow away!

paper held down on a wooden deck by 2 books; a small wooden skewer is held in the center with a bit of blue tak

Step 2 – Stick a small mound of blue tak in the centre of the paper. Stick a pen or something similar (like a skewer or straw) upright in the blue tak.

Step 3 – Your pen should now cast a line-shaped shadow on your paper. Draw along this line.

the sun is moving so the skewer's shadow moves, too!

Step 4 – Leave your sundial doodle and go do other fun camp things! Come back a few times throughout the day – the shadow will move. Each time you return to your sundial doodle, draw a line along the new shadow.

Step 5 – Some optional tips: you could set a reminder to come back to your sundial doodle, perhaps once an hour. Why not make it into a mindful routine? Every time you draw a new shadow line, have a stretch and drink some water!

Part Two: Doodles

Step 6 – When sunset comes, it’s time to decorate your sundial lines. Feel free to use your original piece of paper, or trace over the lines onto a fresh piece of paper or journal.

a pattern of lines from the sundial now outlined in black pen

Step 7 – Optional step: colour in between each line, so you have lots of colourful segments!

Step 8 – Doodle different patterns between each line. For example, some of my segments have stars, some have zigzags, some have galaxies…

the finished doodle is round and has different designs in each segment so that it looks like a colorful pizza

Step 9 – If you want to add a bit more space adventure to your doodles, you can add in a spaceship traversing between all your segments!

Hosted by: Rhiannon 
Rhiannon, aka Counselor Bebop, loves snacks, stickers, and surfing the stars with her crew in Troop Curiosity. She operates the communicators on Starship Iggle (aka the IGGPPC Instagram account). You can find her on insta at rhiann0nw!