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Oct 29, 1:00 CT

 

Classroom A: Lea Teter (Riesel, TX)

 

First, you need a piece of black butcher paper approximately 5 ½ feet long. This is what you will glue your monster to. Our monster is mostly 2-D but does have some 3-D parts.

Head: The head of our monster is made of purple butcher paper cut into an oval shape 20 inches wide and 14 inches tall. It has 3 small 5 oz. Dixie cups for eyes, glued upside down at the top of the head with a green eyeball painted with marker on the bottom of each cup. The nose is a green deflated balloon stuffed with little wads of newspaper. The mouth is made of brown yarn glued into an oval shape 8 inches wide and 4 inches tall. Inside his mouth, he has 3 sharp, triangular teeth on the top that are each 2 inches long and 2 of these teeth on the bottom (also made of brown yarn). On top of his head, he has 3 antennae evenly spaced made with maroon yarn (one piece) cut into 4-inch sections. At the end of each antenna, he has a small 6-inch paper plate colored with crayons. The one in the middles is colored turquoise, the one on the monster’s right is colored red, and the one on his left is colored orange. He has no ears.

 

 

Body: The body of our monster is made of red butcher paper. First, we cut an oval shape approximately 3 feet tall and 2 ½ feet across. We folded under the edges and glued them to the black butcher paper (vertically) on the bottom and sides, leaving the top open. We then crumbled pieces of newspaper and stuffed inside the body to make it 3-D. Then, we glued down the top portion and then glued the head to it (head runs horizontally). We took 6 small 6-inch paper plates and glued them vertically, 3 down each side of the body in the following order: on the monster’s right: top “button” colored purple, middle button colored green, bottom button colored brown; on his left: top button colored brown, middle orange, bottom green. Down the middle of his body, we spelled the word “WOW” vertically using fat blue yarn with letters about 4 inches high.

Arms: His arms are 8-inch pieces of light blue yarn. They hang from his sides like “stick” arms and have 3 “stick fingers on the end of each arm.

 

Legs: His right leg is made of a rectangular-shaped piece of green construction paper glued down at the bottom of his body approximately 8 inches long and 4 ½ inches across. His left leg is the same shape but made of blue construction paper. At the end of each leg we glued a 9-inch paper plate colored orange.

 

Classroom B: Tara Pabis (East Ward Elem, Killeen ISD, Killeen, TX)

 

Monster description goes here

Materials

Construction paper: green, white, light blue, orange, black

Yarn: multi-color (the type that fades from one color into another)

Pink balloons-3

Cups-1 red silo, 2 Dixie

Paper plate-1 small w/ design

Glue

Ruler

Scissors

2 very large shoe box or a couple shoe boxes to put together as one

 

Head

Cover a 16 inch long by 14 inch high by 5 inch deep shoe box with pink butcher paper as if you were wrapping a present. (We used a shoe box for boots) The face will be one of the largest sides.

Cut 12 pieces of colored string and glue the ends one next to another in the middle of a green piece of construction paper cut into a rectangle measuring 7inches by 4 inches. The yarn should fall over one of the long sides of the rectangle.

Glue the green rectangle on the top, in the middle of the shoe box, with the short side of the rectangle facing the front and back of the head.

 

Cut 1 piece of white construction paper into a square with sides measuring 11 inches.

Cut 1 piece of light blue construction paper into a square measuring 5 inches by inches.

Ball up the white paper square of and the light blue square of paper, place the light blue paper inside the middle of the white paper to form the eyeball.

Glue the eye onto the front of the box, at the top, in the middle.

 

Glue 2 Dixie (bathroom size) cups to the side of the box in the middle for the ears. Use a black marker to color over any design on the outside of the cup.

 

Glue the side of one Silo drinking cup (red) to the front of the monster’s head, 1 inch under the eyeball. Cut 1 hole in the back of the cup near the rim just big enough to push the rolled end of a pink balloon into. Cut another hole in the front and push 2 pink balloons through the same hole.

Cut 15 rectangles out of black construction paper measuring ½ inch by 3 inches. For each piece, fold one end about 1 inch over so that it looks like an L. Glue the bottom of the “L” around the inside lip of the cup.

 

Fold one 7 ½ inch diameter paper plate with a design on it (preferably animals) in half. Cut black construction paper into the shape of a rhombus about the size of the blue plastic/wood tangram shapes. Make 32 of these. Fold them in half to form 2 triangles and glue one side of the triangle to the inside rim of the folded paper plate. Place half on the top and half on the bottom, in 2 rows. The rows should not look like an array of 16.

 

BODY

Either use a box that measures 24 inches wide by 15 inches high and 8 inches deep, or glue a few shoe boxes together. Color box green (we used green paint, but you could cover with green paper).

 

Cut leaf shapes out of a dark green construction paper and use chalk to make leaf markings. Glue these on the front of the box (the side with the largest face) spaced out.

 

Cut about 20 pieces of tan colored yarn about 4 inches long. Pull the yarn apart so it has a shredded look. Glue these between the leaves spread out.

 

Place the box so that the long side is on top, place the head on the top.

 

ARMS and LEGS

For the legs, have each student trace one foot (their choice) on an orange piece of paper and cut it out, glue them one next to the other around the bottom of the body. (We had 16 students in our class)

 

For the arms, have half of the students trace their left hand, and half of the students trace their right hand on orange paper. Poke a small hole in the palm of each hand. Cut 2 pieces of yarn each measuring 48 inches. Weave one piece of yarn through each of the left hands, and weave the other piece of yarn through the right. Glue one end to each side of the monster. Glue the last hand on each string somewhere on the body to make a funny pose. Be ready to tell us why you placed the hands there!