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Oct. 29, 9:00 CT/10:00 ET

 

Classroom A: Jessica Drennan (Dew ISD, Dew, TX)

 

Bill Munster

 

We are so excited that you will be making a replica of our Bill Munster! We hope that he inspires your classroom as much as he has ours!  

 

Materials:

Black, red, green, yellow, and orange butcher paper

Red, cream/white, blue, brown, and orange construction paper

Glue-white Elmer’s and hot glue

16 oz. foam cups

3 oz. plastic cups

Black marker

Black and green yarn

Medium foam plates

Scissors

 

Head

 

1.First, take four adult size shoeboxes and put them together with glue by stacking two on the left and two on the right making a square prism. Next, wrap your square prism with black butcher paper like a present.

 

 

2.Hair: Fold a piece of blue construction paper hot dog style and cut small triangles out at one of the ends to make spiked hair. Take black yarn and cut into 1 inch pieces and glue to the back of blue construction paper as hair. Line the folded middle up with the front top edge of the prism, so that the spiked hair is sticking up and you can glue the other flap to the box. 

 

 

3.Ears: First, take two brown pieces of construction paper and cut two large triangles for ears. Glue one brown triangle to the top left side of the prism so that the point is sticking up. Repeat this step for the right side. 

 

 

4.Face:   Using red construction paper cut a set of BIG RED LIPS out for the face. (The lips will cover most of the monster’s face.) Glue the lips at the bottom of the prism where BIG RED LIPS would normally go! Next, take orange construction paper and cut out two medium size circles for the eyes. Glue one orange circle to the front top right corner of the cube. Then glue the other orange circle to the front top left corner of the cube. For the 3-D eyes, you will glue three 3 ounce white plastic cups on each orange circle. Before you glue the cups down color the bottom middle circle with a black marker and draw veins on the sides of the cups. For the left eye, glue the open ends of the cups down in a triangular pattern. For the right eye, glue the open ends of cups down in an upside down triangular pattern. Place a curved piece of white paper in the middle of the orange circles to serve as a nose piece for glasses. For the nose, cover one 3 ounces cup with red construction paper. Glue the nose between the eyes open side down. 

 

 

 

 

 

Neck, body, and arms:

 

Neck: Cover one small shoebox with black butcher paper like a present. On the front of the neck, you need to glue small red triangles point side down in a row as a spike necklace. 

 

Body: Glue together six adult size shoeboxes to make a large prism about 25 inches tall and 25 inches wide. Cover body with black butcher paper. 

Nametag: Next take a piece of white construction paper and cut a rectangle that is 12 inches tall and 4 inches wide for a nametag. On the top center write in small letters “My name is” and under that in large letters write “Bill.” 

Necktie: Bill also is wearing an orange tie with black stripes. Bill’s tie is about 9 inches long from top to bottom and comes to a point at the end. 

Stitches: Our poor Bill also had a little run in with his cat, Tiny, this morning. (Note that TINY isn’t so tiny!) So, he had to stitch up his shirt with brown thread. About 3 inches from the bottom of his left side, he has brown stitches made from brown construction paper about 8 inches long going up diagonally.

Shirt pocket: At the bottom left hand side of Bill’s shirt is a small red pocket with a white piece of paper stuck out of it. Cut the red pocket out of red construction paper like a square house with a pointed roof. The pocket is about 3 ½ inches tall and 2 inches wide. Turn the red house upside down and glue at the bottom left corner of Bill’s shirt leaving the top of the pocket open. At the opening of the pocket, place an one inch by 2 inch piece of white construction in it so that it looks like a note is sticking out.

 

 

Arms:   Take two 16 oz. foam drinking cups and glue both open ends together. Cover the cups with green butcher paper. Next, cut out twenty 3 in. X 3 in. (about) square pieces of yellow butcher paper. Wad each yellow square into a ball. Then glue 10 balls on each green arm.   Glue one arm on each side of the body at the top front corner. 

 

Hands: Take the medium Styrofoam plates and cover with yellow butcher paper. Next, cut out 40 3 in. X 3 in. (about) square pieces of green butcher paper. Wad each green square into a ball. Then glue 20 balls on around the outside edges of each plate. Put glue on the end of the arms and attach hand in the middle. You will have to hold it in place until it dries. (We used both white and hot glue that was barely hot!) 

 

 

Legs & Feet

 

1.Legs: Take 2 16 oz. foam drinking cups and glue both open ends together. Next, glue another 16 oz. cup to the small end of the ones just combined. You will have three cups in all glued together for each leg. Repeat the same steps for the other leg. After the two legs are finished, it’s time to give them some color. Starting at the closed end begin gluing 1 inch strips of red and orange construction paper around the cups alternating red and orange. Repeat this until both legs are covered with red and orange stripes. Finally, slide the legs under the big body sitting on a student chair.

 

 

 

2.Feet: For the left foot cover an adult shoebox with orange butcher paper like a present. Next, cut lots of green yarn into 2 to 3 inch pieces and glue on top of box for HAIRY MONSTER FOOT! Follow the same steps for the right foot but cover with red butcher paper. Finally, place the boxes in front of each leg.

 

 

Putting Bill together:

 

1.Place Bill’s big body on a student chair.

2.Put Bill’s neck in the middle of Bill’s body at the top.

3.Third, place Bill’s head on top of his neck.

4.Next, put Bill’s legs under his body. Place one under each front corner.

5.Finally, place Bill’s feet in front of each leg.

 

We hope that you enjoy Bill in your classroom!

 

Classroom B: Deb Kraska (Eagle Lake Elem, Edwardsburg, MI)

 

1. Glue two shoeboxes on top of each other horizontally.
2. Glue 6 pieces of purple construction paper to the shoe boxes so the shoeboxes won’t show. Cut a hole in the top of the two shoe boxes on the short side of the shoe boxes. 
3. Then take green yarn and measure 1 inch pieces and cut. Do this 14 times. Tape the pieces to the belly.
4. Curl a blue piece of construction paper that is 8 inches long and 8 inches wide. Tape so that it looks like a tube. Carefully attach the tube to the middle top of the boxes.
5. Take a red marker and draw red spots on the collar bone.
6. Cut two pieces of 12 in pink yarn, twist gently and tie it around the neck.
7. Cut green paper in a 2 inch circle and use a sharpie marker to draw a 1 inch circle inside the 2 inch green circle and glue to the lower part of the belly to make a belly button.
8. Cut 2 holes in the bottom of the body. Put legs in the holes and glue in place.

1. Take one piece of yellow construction paper.
2. Get a pencil, draw a 7 inch rhombus. Each side should be 7 inches.
3. Cut it out. That is the head.
4. Cut six 6 inch pieces of orange yarn. Tape three pieces of the hair to each side of the yellow rhombus at the top. 
5. Draw a ¾ inch four pointed crown on orange construction paper. Glue it one inch down from the eyes. This is the nose.
6. Tape the head to the blue neck.

1. Take one piece of red construction paper.
2. Get a pencil, draw a ½ inch hexagon. Each side should be ½ inch.
3. Cut the hexagon out.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 two more times.
5. Glue them on the top of the rhombus head.
6. Take a black marker and draw a dot in the middle hexagon shaped eyes. Next draw a circle around the dot you drew.
7. Cut a 1 ½ inch circle out of black construction.
8. Cut a 2 in. piece of black yarn. Glue the circle to the left hexagon eye. Tape the black yarn to the back of the head. Connect it to the black circle.

1. Take one piece of black construction paper.
2. Get a pencil, draw a 2 inch triangle. Each side should be 2 inches long.
3. Cut the triangle up and down so you have a 2 half triangles.
4. Glue them on the side of the rhombus head.

1. Take 1 piece of red construction paper.
2. Draw a 31/2 oval on the paper.
3. Cut the oval out.
4. Draw a line through the oval with a pencil.
5. Glue the oval on the bottom middle of the rhombus head.

1. Take one piece of red construction paper.
2. Make two 12 inch triangles.
3. Cut the triangles out.
4. Make a cone shape by rolling the triangles up. Tape the cone.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 one more time. These are the shoulders.  
6. Cut out 2 brown circles. They should be 2 ½ inches across. Tape them to the bottom of the red cones.
7. Glue the cones to the blue construction paper.
8. Get one piece of blue construction paper and cut two rectangular pieces. Two sides of the rectangle should be 16 ½ inches and two sides should be 3 inches. Cut the arms out. 
9. Cut two rectangles out of red construction paper. Two sides should be 4 inches and two sides should be 3 inches. Glue to the end of the blue arms.
10. Take a blue piece of construction paper and cut 10 rectangles. Two sides of the rectangle 3 ½ inches and two sides should be ½ inch. Cut out and glue 5 rectangles to each red hand. 
11. Cut 40 one inch pieces of green yarn. Tape 20 pieces to each blue arm.

1. Take one piece of green construction paper.
2. Trace a ½ inch circle on the green construction paper. Cut in ½.
3. Repeat 4more times.
4. Glue ½ circles onto the tips of the brown fingers.
5. Glue the completed arms to the body. Tape one arm on each side. Glue the cones to the top of the body, where the arms connect.

1. Roll 1 piece of green construction paper into a cylinder and tape it. It should measure 22 inches.  Repeat. Attach to the bottom of the body.
2. Cut out two 4 inch squares from red construction paper for the knees.
3. Tape these to the middle of the legs.
4. Cut ten 3 inch triangles from green construction paper and ten 3 inch triangles from yellow construction paper. Tape them onto the side of the cylinder shaped legs, making an ABAB pattern. You will need ten triangles on each side.

1. Take two pieces of purple construction paper. Measure a triangle with one side 3 inches and two sides 6 inches long on each piece of purple paper. 
2. Cut out the triangles. These are the feet. Stick them to the bottom of the legs.

1. Take 1 piece of brown construction paper.
2. Measure a square on the brown construction paper. All sides should be 1 inch. Keep doing this until you have 10 toes.
3. Take a black piece of construction paper and measure ten triangles with each side 1 inch.
4. Cut the triangles out.
5. Glue onto the edge of the toe with triangle base on the edge of the square and the top pointing out.
6. Tear 12 half inch circles out of green construction paper. Paste the pieces all over the feet to look like warts.
7. Tape the feet to the bottom of the legs.