Today we’ve got a round-up of over 30 monster craft ideas both from our own archives and bloggers around the world. Especially at Halloween time (although monsters hide under the bed and in kids’ bedroom closets year round, don’t they? haha) In any case, they’re always a fun theme to base crafts and activities on. You might also like these Fall crafts and activitiesĭo you find monsters funny, hideous, or scary? Maybe they’re a combination of all three. There are paper crafts, DIY toys, art ideas, printables and more. When we finished with the first four tentacles, the rest were formed by dividing the remaining clay into relatively small, similarly sized pieces.Īll features were baked according to the directions found on the packaging of the oven bake clay.Here’s a monstrous collection of monster crafts and activities for kids! When making the tentacles we tried to make them one-of-a-kind because, like humans, each book monster should have its own unique personality.

Gray clay was used as tiny suction cup dots underneath each tentacle.

Removing quarter sized pieces of clay for two sets of tentacles to line the jaws, we rolled out small pasta-like shapes and sharpened the ends. This created problems later as these two clays took longer to cook when blended. Pinching the ends gave the tongue a better shape and helped it appear more dangerous.įinally, we shaped the book's tentacles by mixing purple and white clay. The tongue was our next hurdle, made by folding a long rope of clay in half. About seven teeth, all different shapes and sizes, were made for each jaw. We created teeth by removing tic-tac size clay chunks from our warmed up clay, pinching the ends to make a pointed shape. a water bottle), and then indented to craft the gums. Each jaw was shaped as if the clay was first folded around the end of a rounded object (ex. We tried to replicate this effect by shaping small, oval jaw lines that curved slightly inward. In the Harry Potter movie, The Monster Book of Monsters appeared with jaws that stuck out from the top and bottom book covers. The first of these features is the monster book's mouth. Our monster box consists of three important features that we decided to model with oven bake clay. Most oven bake clays requires a few minutes of kneading to warm up, so take this time (while you read through this step) to start moving your clay around. Get out your clay before moving on to the most important features of our book. Do not spray too much glue or else your hair will mat. Straighten the hairs behind each eye so that they stand apart on top of your monster box. You may need to spray more glue to ensure your eyes stick properly. Apply enough glue for each eye that you can press it into the book's fur and have it stick straight up. When you have separated the fibers within each yarn grouping, glue one googly eye onto the end of each strand of yarn. Be mindful to keep your yarn strands clumped together after you separate the individual fibers. You can use your fingers to break apart the yarn, like we did in step 3 when giving your box its first layer of hair. Taking our leftover yarn, we cut four long pieces that extended about halfway across the top of our book monster. For this project we found some bright yellow eyes that we thought would give our book an eerie demeanor. Googly eyes are one of our favorite muggle crafting items. Now that your book monster has pages and hair, it's time to add the best part.

These included: a Silhouette Cameo printer, an oven (to bake the clay), a pink hot glue gun, and gloves to keep your hands clean. Some other products were used but were not pictured. Finally we included some scissors that were used to deconstruct the yarn to make monster hair. Spray adhesive was one of our most used materials and helped attach the monster hair, book colors (made from cardstock paper) and googly eyes (a must for any Digilent project). Tentacles and monster book jaws were made by hand using oven bake clay that was mixed and combined before shaping and baking. White yarn was then used to make 3D pages, however, you are welcome to use whatever craft supplies you have around the house/makerspace. Since we did not have faux fur like other instructable projects, we used some yarn that looked like hair when disassembled. While this instructable will only feature the creation of our Monster Book of Monster exterior, stay tuned for a follow up instructable using the included Box Monster Kit electronics. We started this project using the Digilent Robotic Box Monster Kit, which included our white box and other goodies for later use. Before beginning your Harry Potter inspired journey, there are some materials you must gather.

Cut paper monsters book