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Mask Mania!

Just in time for trick-or-treating—here's a fun-to-make "creature-feature" mask!

 

What You Need:

• colored poster board
• construction or other colored paper
• scissors
• cardboard tube from a roll of paper towels
• craft glue
• poster paint (optional)
• drinking straws (optional)
   

What You Do:

1. Outline a basic head shape (with ears and horns, if you want) on poster board, making sure it's big enough to cover your own face. Cut it out. 
2. Hold the mask up to your face and mark where your eyes are. (You may need help with this.) Put the mask down and cut out the eyes. 
3. For features such as a nose, cut out the overall shape from a piece of colored paper. Then fold the paper and cut slits or scalloped edges. Open your paper and glue it to the mask. (You may need to experiment to get the shapes you like.) 
4. Cut whiskers, eyebrows, mane, or other details from scraps of paper—and glue them on. (For horns, glue a straw on the back of each one. This helps them stand up.) 
5. Glue construction paper around the cardboard towel tube or paint it instead. Then glue the tube to the back of the mask, leaving a few inches at the bottom for a handle.

Note: If you want, you can just hang your mask up in a window or on a wall. If so, you can skip steps 2 and 5. Or you can use it as a puppet and skip step 2.  

For more mask fun, just click here.

Craft by Robin Walker
Photos by Mark Godfrey