Lost In Pizzaland: Wacky Wednesday: Monsters

Wacky Wednesday

Monsters

Crafts:

Cut monster feet out of cardboard.
Paint it and let it dry.
Cut a section from a small box (large enough for your child's foot). Paint it or glue paper on it. Staple or glue it to the large foot.
Carefully have your child walk in the monster feet, stomping and growling like a monster.

Design and sketch your monster. Then cut out pieces of tubes. You can use a variety of sizes. You can use the naturally curved parts of the tubes to make wings, feet, and a tail. You can even have a jagged look.
Glue the tubes together, allowing time for the glue to set. Then add facial features. You can use chenille sticks, paper circles and pompoms.
You can glue one tube on the edge of another one. Let dry. Cut about 1 inch off the end of the tubes for the eyes. Place a circle inside each eye and a pom pom on each circle. Place wings on the tilted tube. Feet on the bottom tube and a tail on the back of the monster. You can use pipe cleaners for inside the tilted tube for make a mouth. And use pipe cleaners for antennas.
Be creative.

Plate Playmates: Flexible dinner-sized paper plate, paint, crayons or markers, pencil, bathroom tissue tube, construction paper and heavy paper, glue, tape

Fold a flexible paper plate in half and then open it. The bottom of the plate will be your puppet's outer section. Paint or color the front area of the plate the way you want the inside of the puppet's mouth to look.
You can make eyes for your playmate. Just hold the tube upright on a sheet of white paper and trace around its bottom twice. Add a tab to each of the circles you drew and cut them out. Decorate it.
When completely dry, add features. You can add paper teeth, tongue, and long eyelashes.
Cut a 3" by 1" strip of heavy paper, form it into a loop, and tape it securely to the outside of the bottom half of the plate. Be sure you thumb can it into the loop. Slip your thumb into the paper loop and your index and middle fingers into the back of the eyes and make your puppet monster come to life.
You can also give your playmate hair made of yarn, curly ribbon or even curly construction paper.

Monster Egg-Carton Creature: Plastic egg carton, stapler or glue, markers, poster board, gogglie eyes

Cut two cups from a plastic foam egg carton.
Cut teeth along the edges of both, and staple or glue the cups together at the back. Or you can cut ones that are connected together.
Color with markers.
Glue on poster board feet and gogglie eyes.

Monster Guys: Metal caps, black permanent marker, craft glue, card-stock, foam paper, paint(metal for metal bottle cap),pencil, scissors

Cut 3 monster shapes from card-stock to make a pattern.
Trace monster patterns onto brightly-colored foam and cut out
Cut teeth from white foam, mouths form black foam, and tongue from red foam, the glue onto your monsters.
Paint bottle caps to desired colors for eyes and let dry. You can have one eye or more than two eyes.
Draw pupils in eyes and any other details you want your monster to have.
You can glue magnetic strips onto the back of them to hang on fridge. You can even give to someone and put from your little monster.

Collage Monster: Glue, Construction paper, buttons, bottle caps, glitter, sequins, pieces of material, ribbons, pencil

This is one way to bring out the monster in your child!
Have your child lie down on a long sheet of butcher paper or brown wrapping paper with their arms and legs extended. Trace around your child's body.
Then have them get up.
Have them color in crazy, funny, or scary details to turn their outline into a monster!
If they want they can add horns, wings, claws, fangs, and a tail. They might even want to add extra eyes, legs or arms, or even an extra head!