Instructions Tip:
Monster Mask TEACHERS RESOURCE 3 + By Katie Evans, www.busythings.blogspot.com
YOU WILL NEED • A paintbrush • A pair of scissors • Glue UHU or PVA • Some small colourful pieces of paper - old wrapping paper will do. • Large paper bags (to fit your head inside!) • Textas
Instructions
1. Snip the handles off your paper bag and pop it over your head 2. G et a friend to gently mark out, with a texta, where your eyes are on the outside of the bag. Tell them not to poke too far into the bag! 3. Take the bag off and cut holes where the marks are in your bag. This is so you can see out of your mask. 4. Cut out some scales, teeth, ears and horns from your colourful paper and stick to the paper bag to decorate your monster mask.
Tip:
If you don’t want to put the bag over your head you can stuff the bag with newspaper, poke a stick into the bag and pull the bag in at the bottom, around the stick, securing tightly with masking tape before you decorate. Now you have a monster face you can just place in front of your face.
To enhance your concert experience and for more MONSTER fun, please take your creation to the MSO’s Classic Kids program Magic and Monsters, 31 May to 1 June – bookings www.mso.com.au or phone MSO Box Office on 03 9929 9600. For more creative arts ideas see www.artplay.com.au
Monster Softie TEACHERS RESOURCE 5 + By Katie Evans, www.busythings.blogspot.com
YOU WILL NEED • A pair of scissors • A needle • Some embroidery thread • 3 - 4 pieces of colourful felt or patterned fabric (roughly A4 paper size) • Scraps of fabric • Dacron stuffing • Fabric glue • A black texta
Instructions 1. With the black texta, draw a monster shape onto 2 pieces of your fabric or felt. Make the pieces about as big as your hand. Note: Felt is a little easier to work with as it doesn’t fray like fabric does. 2. C ut out the shapes and place them together. 3. T hread your needle with the embroidery thread and, using a blanket or running stitch, sew around the outside of your monster shape. Make sure you leave the bottom open so you can stuff your monster with Dacron. 4. S tuff the monster shape with Dacron and sew up the bottom. 5. C ut out some round eyes, scales and teeth from your left-over felt and fabric scraps and glue them onto the monster with the fabric glue. 6. T hread your needle with a 30cm strand of embroidery thread and sew through the top of each ear of your monster. Make sure you don’t thread it all the way through! Repeat this step 4 times for each ear. 7. Tie up the threads at the tips of the ears and you are done! Grrrrr! Monster Magic!
Tip: You can sew a cross into each eye before you stick to the monster face, or even glue a bobbly eye onto the circle. Goggly, bobbly eyes are available from craft and fabric stores. Try leaving the bottom of your monster shape open and leave out the Dacron. Then you can use your monster as a puppet!
YOU WILL NEED • A paintbrush • A pair of scissors • Glue UHU or PVA • Some small colourful pieces of paper - old wrapping paper will do. • Large paper bags (to fit your head inside!) • Textas
Instructions
1. Snip the handles off your paper bag and pop it over your head 2. G et a friend to gently mark out, with a texta, where your eyes are on the outside of the bag. Tell them not to poke too far into the bag! 3. Take the bag off and cut holes where the marks are in your bag. This is so you can see out of your mask. 4. Cut out some scales, teeth, ears and horns from your colourful paper and stick to the paper bag to decorate your monster mask.
Tip:
If you don’t want to put the bag over your head you can stuff the bag with newspaper, poke a stick into the bag and pull the bag in at the bottom, around the stick, securing tightly with masking tape before you decorate. Now you have a monster face you can just place in front of your face.
To enhance your concert experience and for more MONSTER fun, please take your creation to the MSO’s Classic Kids program Magic and Monsters, 31 May to 1 June – bookings www.mso.com.au or phone MSO Box Office on 03 9929 9600. For more creative arts ideas see www.artplay.com.au
Monster Softie TEACHERS RESOURCE 5 + By Katie Evans, www.busythings.blogspot.com
YOU WILL NEED • A pair of scissors • A needle • Some embroidery thread • 3 - 4 pieces of colourful felt or patterned fabric (roughly A4 paper size) • Scraps of fabric • Dacron stuffing • Fabric glue • A black texta
Instructions 1. With the black texta, draw a monster shape onto 2 pieces of your fabric or felt. Make the pieces about as big as your hand. Note: Felt is a little easier to work with as it doesn’t fray like fabric does. 2. C ut out the shapes and place them together. 3. T hread your needle with the embroidery thread and, using a blanket or running stitch, sew around the outside of your monster shape. Make sure you leave the bottom open so you can stuff your monster with Dacron. 4. S tuff the monster shape with Dacron and sew up the bottom. 5. C ut out some round eyes, scales and teeth from your left-over felt and fabric scraps and glue them onto the monster with the fabric glue. 6. T hread your needle with a 30cm strand of embroidery thread and sew through the top of each ear of your monster. Make sure you don’t thread it all the way through! Repeat this step 4 times for each ear. 7. Tie up the threads at the tips of the ears and you are done! Grrrrr! Monster Magic!
Tip: You can sew a cross into each eye before you stick to the monster face, or even glue a bobbly eye onto the circle. Goggly, bobbly eyes are available from craft and fabric stores. Try leaving the bottom of your monster shape open and leave out the Dacron. Then you can use your monster as a puppet!
