The silver alien used scraps of silver tissue paper, which is very opaque compared to regular tissue paper so I only needed one layer of it. Lay down a thin layer of glue with a paint brush, then lay down the tissue paper, then cover it with another layer of glue.
#Tissue paper monsters how to#
How to Make this Easy Alien Craft for Kidsįirst cover the boxes with the glue and tissue paper. Pipe cleaners for the antennae and legs.Jello, raisin, or other small empty carboard boxes.Just use paint instead.Īlso be sure to check out our recycled object robot craft! What You Need to Make this Easy Alien Craft for Kids You can totally make these cardboard box aliens without tissue paper scraps and without the mess of decoupage. Until I come up with a cool tissue paper saving system, I figured I should do something with the scraps right away, because, you know, it’s not really the right week to throw things away like that! So I had already set aside my kids’ raisin boxes and Jello boxes, and somehow making aliens was the logical next step! I always hate doing that, because I know you can do cool stuff with small pieces of tissue paper, but it’s incredibly impractical to save them after a craft project. The little girl in the book Lucy isn’t sleepy so she draws a monster but soon his refusal to go to bed even after she is sleepy backfires.Earth Day is right around the corner! I have been doing a lot of crafts with tissue paper lately, which means I have had a crapload of tissue paper scraps to throw away. “Go To Bed Monster” by Natasha Wing is a book anyone who’s ever struggled with bedtime will instantly relate to. There is quite a bit of talk about monsters eating people, though nothing too gory. This book feels like a choose your own adventure book, it’s fun, repetitive and silly. The story is about a monster and all the life changing choices he faces every day like whether to eat a principal or run through a wall of a school. “When A Monster is Born” by Sean Taylor is funny, my son didn’t find it as funny as I did but he still laughed and didn’t seem scared any of it. The monster even gets his own bed in the little fox’s bedroom so he doesn’t have to live under the bed anymore. This is a sad monster but with a little time and patience the monster and the little fox make new friends and all is well. The monster was left behind by a previous owner of the house that the little fox moves into. “My Friend The Monster” by Elanor Taylor is a sweet and not at all scary look at a friendship between a little fox and the monster who lives under his bed. Add the claws/toenails, or in our case, knee pads.Add glue for the facial features to the grass.I made horns, a big happy mouth, some claws and one eye with an iris. While they are adding grass cut out your features.After he added a ball of grass I would squish it hard to the glue to make sure it stuck. This minimizes the mess and random stray pieces falling all over your floor. A cool trick is to make balls with the grass and glue those on. Time to add a lot of glue – if you are using tissue paper add a few layers, adding glue as you need it.Add the limbs, I made 4 but my son only wanted his monster to have 2.
#Tissue paper monsters full size#
Next hand your child the glue and have them glue the body onto the plain full size piece of construction paper.Start by cutting the green paper into a monster body and 4 limbs.You will also need some colored scrap paper, green construction paper and another full piece of construction paper in a contrasting color, scissors and glue. If you are smart, grab some green tissue paper.
If you are brave( and crazy like me ) use Easter grass you have laying around.
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