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Oct 28, 1:00 CT / 2:00 ET

 

Classroom A: Heather Vanderboegh (Coloma Elem, Berrien Springs, MI)

 

Supplies:  2 small boxes for legs ( I used Kleenex boxes), 2 water bottles for arms, 1 medium size box for the head,  1 large box for the body ( I used a copy paper box), paper plates, paper bags, tin foil, pipe cleaners, red, green, and blue yarn, cotton balls, butcher paper 

 

 

 

 

 

Head

1. Take a medium sized box and wrap it in light blue paper. 
2. Glue 6 cotton balls on the face for the eyes.  Glue a black paper circle on the center of each cotton ball. 
3. Use 2 yellow pipe cleaners to for the mouth.  His bottom lip is smiling and his top lip zigzags up and down like teeth. 
4. Use 2 white pipe cleaners to make antennae on top of his head. 
5. Use green yarn to make hair.  He has short hair.

 

 

 

Body

1. Take a large box and cover it with green paper. 
2. Take 5 cotton balls and color two of them red and one green with markers.  Glue them down the front of the box for buttons in this order.  Red, white, green, white red. 
3. Take red yearn and glue it all over his body for fur. 

 

 

 

Arms

1. Cover a bottle with tin foil and draw stitches on them with markers

 

 

 

Hands

1. Trace your left and right hands on 2 large paper plates
2. Cut out hand
3. Color the hands blue
4. Tape a pipe cleaner to the end of each finger
5. At the end of each pipe cleaner tape a cotton ball
6. Color the cotton balls with a red marker for nail polish

 

 

 

Legs

1. Cover one small box with light blue paper
2. Cover the other with half light blue and green paper.
3. On the leg that is just light blue glue strips of blue yarn going across the leg
4. On that same leg glue green strips of yarn going up and down to make a checker board patter.
5. On the other leg glue an orange strip of paper on the sides of it.
6. Draw  6 blue poka-dots on the orange paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feet (he has four)

1.      Foot 1: 

·        Take a paper lunch bag and fill it with with paper.  Fold the top over to close it.

·        Cover it with light blue paper

·        The folded side connects to the leg

·        Use 5 cotton balls and glue them to the end of the foot for toes

2.      Foot 2, 3, & 4:

·        Take a paper lunch sack and cover half of it with tin foil

·        Use 5 cotton balls on each foot to make the toes.  The toes can be colored.

 

 

 

To assemble him I used mostly duct tape and hot glue

GOOD LUCK!

 

Classroom B: Karen Heugatter (Rosebud-Lott Elem, Rosebud, TX)

 

 

Lott Elementary, 3^rd Grade Miss Heugatter’s class

 

 Supplies:  newspaper, 3 thin paper plates, 1 small thick plate, bulletin board paper:  blue, yellow, black, red, pink; black construction paper, 4 12-ounce styrofoam cups, red yarn, blue yarn, 2 shoebox lids, markers, glue, staples.

 

 

Head: 

     Take 3 paper plates to make head.  On one plate draw 3 green eyes, purple triangle for the nose (colored in), and a blue mouth that is smiling and has lines at corners.   Do this on each plate.  Staple the three plates together to make a triangle.  For the hair:  cut bulletin board paper into 12 x 2 strips.  Use 10 blue, 10 yellow, 10 black, 10 red.  Glue them in that order all around the head, so that they flap over.

 

Neck:

            Take a full section of a newspaper, start with it folded in half.  Roll this into a tube and staple together.  Do this three times.  Glue head to the neck, the three newspapers. 

 

Body:

            Take one piece of large, black construction paper.  Wrap it around the neck and glue and staple to the neck to form body. Leave 2 inches of newspaper showing.  Glue a paper plate, smaller size, heavy duty paper,  to the bottom of the body.

 

Arms:

            Take pink bulletin board paper, about 60 inches long and 3 inches wide, and accordion fold them.  Do this twice.  Glue to the middle of the body for the arms.

 

Hands: 

            Take black construction paper and trace four students hands.  Glue hands together and then stuff with bulletin board paper to make fuller.  Staple to bottom of the arm.

 

Legs:  Take 4 Styrofoam cups, about 12 ounce size, and wrap blue yarn around two cups.  Wrap red yarn around two cups.  Glue the first ring and last ring.  This should hold it.  Then glue two cups together at the big ends.  Glue the four cups together by small ends.  Glue the legs to the paper plate at the bottom of the body.

 

Feet:

            Take two shoe box lids and cover with black bulletin board paper.  Glue the legs to the shoe box lids.

 

He's simple, but cute.  Hope you enjoy it and see you on the 28th!!