Black-Belt Broken Boards

Make your own action figures with Model Magic®! Show your best karate moves. Invent exciting self-defense scenes.

1. People of Asia used martial arts on the battlefield for thousands of years. Karate means empty hand and it relies on high-energy punches, strikes, and kicks using only the fighter’s body. Karate has a color-coded system of graded levels of competency (belts) starting with white, then yellow, orange, green, and purple for beginners. Brown and black belts are signs of karate masters. Watch people practice karate. Notice how their bodies look when they get ready, kick, and do other moves.

2. To form your black-belt board breaker, sculpt white Crayola Model Magic into an appropriate body stance. Knead in the color from Crayola Washable Markers to make skin, hair, and belt colors.

3. Make a practice partner in a responding posture with more Model Magic.

4. Place a toothpick or craft stick in the kicking partner’s hand for the board to break. Air-dry both figures.

5. On thick cardboard, color a workout room floor with markers. You could illustrate the belt colors to inspire novices to earn their black belts. If you wish, use Crayola School Glue to attach the karate figures to the cardboard. Air-dry before displaying.

Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project.

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough With Small Parts— WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—

• Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
• Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
• Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
• If the arts & crafts project involves making small objects, follow the small parts/choking hazards standards: WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children under 3 years."
• The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
• Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
• Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient. Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic, and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Wood—By its nature, wood is rough and may contain splinters or sharp points

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Crafts

crayola supplies

• Markers
• Model Magic®
• No-Run School Glue

household supplies

• toothpicks - wooden
• cardboard

"My son held a Karate Party with this craft. Kids dream about the moves they’ll make when they become black belts."
Dana L., mom of 5-, 7-, and 8-year olds.

"Karate teaches valuable lessons when all the practice and discipline comes down to a 2-minute competition. This project enables kids to really study human anatomy!"
Yoshi K., after-school volunteer.

Breaking hard objects (often wood) is one way that karate students toughen their bodies and learn not to feel pain. A U.S. master holds the world record for karate breaking, smashing through 15, 1.3-inch (3.2 cm) concrete slabs. Do the math and figure out how thick that is! DO NOT try to do this! Breaking even one board takes years of karate training.