Crown
YOU WILL NEED:
•;metal wire
•;wire cutters
•;thin tinsel ribbon, ours is from tinseltrading.com
•;hot glue gun
•;small tinsel tassel, ours is from tinseltrading.com
• hairpins
1. Start by making two circles of wire. Make them as big as you
want. This is the base of your crown. 2. Fasten them together
with more wire. 3. Shape the top of the crown from four pieces
of wire. 4. Glue tinsel to all the wires with a hot glue gun. 5. Glue
a tassel on the underside of the top of the crown. 6. Fasten to
your child’s head with hair pins.
Puppy
YOU WILL NEED:
•;thick craft paper
•;paper glue
•;craft paint
•;white cord
•;hot glue gun
• Sharpie
• elastic
1. Start by making a template using a teddy bear or a stuffed
dog as inspiration. It’s like a cake—this mask consists of one
small piece in the middle, two larger pieces on each side, and
a half moon as the bottom. 2. Glue each piece together using
paper glue. 3. Cut out ears and glue them to the mask. 4. Paint
the mask using craft paint. Hot glue the cord along the line
where the mask changes color. 5. Draw the nose and mouth
using a Sharpie. 6. Cut out eyes and glue the elastic to the back
of the mask.
Beards
YOU WILL NEED:
•;heavy card stock
•;a black Sharpie marker
•;cotton balls
• glue
•;paint stirrers
•;hot glue gun
1. Cut out beard and moustache shapes out of heavy card
stock. If you want, outline the beard and moustache shapes
with a black Sharpie. 2. Glue the moustache shapes to the
beard shapes. If you want to add cotton balls to the beard, glue
cotton balls all over the card stock and attack the moustache
after. 3. Glue a paint stirrer onto the back of the card stock to
make a handle. You can also secure the beard with a piece of
elastic that will go around the back of your head.
Native Headpiece
YOU WILL NEED:
•;craft paper
• crayons
•;long bamboo sticks
•;hot glue gun
•;thick ribbon
•;fake toy bugs
• acorns
1. Start by drawing zig-zag patterns with different colored
crayons on the paper. 2. Cut out long feather-shaped leaves and
fold them in half lengthwise. 3. Hot glue bamboo sticks on the
back to make the paper stand up. You can also double-up the
paper on each leaf . 4. Glue the bottom of each leaf to a thick
ribbon. Remember to leave some ribbon on each side to tie
with. Let dry completely. 5. Hot glue bugs and acorns all over
the headpiece.
Groucho Marx Glasses
YOU WILL NEED:
•;a pair of 3-D glasses
•;Fimo dough or bakeable modeling clay
•;hot glue gun
•;bits of felting wool
1. Make several noses out of modeling clay. Press each one to
the bridge of your glasses to make sure they can easily
be glued to the glasses. The noses should be hollow so your
actual nose will fit inside when you put on the glasses. 2. Bake
the clay noses according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
3. When the noses are baked and cooled, hot glue them into
place on your glasses. 4. Use bits of felting wool to make big
bushy eyebrows and a big bushy moustache.
Owl Mask
YOU WILL NEED:
• pair of 3-D glasses
•;piece of cardboard
•;old tweed suit jacket or some tweed material scraps
• felt
• colored paper
• scissors
• hot glue gun
1. Cut out a nice mask-shaped piece of cardboard bigger
than the size of the 3-D glasses. 2. Cut out eye holes in the
cardboard. 3. Use the cardboard as a pattern to cut two pieces
of tweed from the old jacket and one from the felt. 4. Scallop
the bottoms of the tweed and the felt, layer them over the
cardboard, and glue them into place 5. Cut eyeholes out of the
fabric, using your cardboard as a guide. 6. Cut out a beak from
yellow paper and glue it to cardboard. 7. Cut rings from paper
to make the eyes look very owlish. 8. Glue the cardboard to the
3-D glasses.
