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Monster Craft

Unleash your creativity with our Paper Cup Monster Craft, a fantastic DIY project for kids that turns ordinary cups into adorable and spooky creatures!
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Course: Kids Crafts
Author: Alli Ward

Equipment

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Start with a paper cup and scissors.
    grab paper cup and scissors for monster
  • Cut off the lip of your cup. This is the part of the cup you drink from.
    cut the lip off paper cup for monster craft
  • Paint the outside of the paper cup orange.
    paint paper cup outside monster orange
  • While the paint of your cup dries, cut a bunch of short pieces of yarn approximately an inch long. An easy way to do this is to wrap the yarn around two fingers a bunch of times. Pull the circle of yarn off your fingers and make a cut on each end of the circle.
    cut orange yarn into 1 inch pieces
  • Start by placing a line of glue toward the bottom of the cup (where you cut), and then place the piece of yarn along the glue so it hangs off the bottom. Once you've made your way around the cup, add another layer halfway up the cup, and then a final layer at the top of the cup.
    glue yarn pieces to bottom layer of paper cup for monster
  • Using the end of the scissors, poke two slits into the top of the paper cup towards the outside.
    glue all the way to the top then cut two slits in top of cup
  • Glue a googly eye to the end of a craft stick. Do this for two craft sticks.
    glue googly eyes to end of popsicle stick
  • Place each of your monster eye craft sticks into each of the slits at the top of your paper cup. If they are moving around, place some glue around the holes to secure them in place.
    place popsicle stick intro top of monster
  • Grab a black piece of paper as well as a piece of white paper. Cut out an oval shape for the monster's mouth out of the black paper, and cut small triangles out of the white paper as teeth.
    grab a piece of black paper and white paper
  • Glue the white teeth to the black piece of paper in whatever fun way you like.
    cut oval black paper and small white triangle for teeth
  • Lastly, glue the mouth to the front of your monster's face.
    glue mouth to front of monster craft
  • Viola, you have adorable little monsters.
    paper cup monster craft for kids

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