Monster Face



A Monster Face Marble Game



You will need:

• Cereal Box
• Paint
• Yarn
• Scraps of paper (for nose, freckles, etc.)
• Glue
• Large Googly eyes
• Marbles or small balls
• White paper

How to:

1. Cut the top out of a cereal box. (Save to later make ears.)
2. Cut three inch slits in the box and fold up (or cut out) every other flap. These will be the slots for your marbles.
3. Paint entire box.
4. Paint.
5. Paint.
6. Paint.
7. Paint some more.




Painting the first of six layers!


8. Once dry, add eyes, ears, hair, etc.
9. Cut strips of white paper to cover flaps to make teeth.
10. Write different point values for each flap and take turns flicking marbles at face to try to get them in holes. Person with the most points gets, well, nothing.

For hair and eyebrows:

For hair: Cut pieces of yarn in various lengths. Tie a small piece of yarn in center to hold.

For eyebrows: Wrap yarn around a small piece of cardboard about 1 inch thick. Slip off cardboard, tie in the middle with a small piece of yarn, and cut ends.





 Thoughts:

Who knew exactly how many layers of paint it would take to cover our cereal box? (I think six, before the name of the cereal was no longer visible.) Our monster started out blue, but once we ran out of blue we had to start adding any other color we had. He ended up a really cool, scary shade of dark green.

Elliott's Evaluation:

I looooved painting my monster face. I like to roll marbles at it. But, you don't get any points if it doesn't go in a hole.









Ghost Prints

A spooktacular art project!

You will need:

• Construction paper, cut into desired size
• Non-toxic paint (tubes work best)
• Googly eyes
• Glue

How to:

1. Drizzle paint onto paper. Try to avoid getting too close to the edges to prevent spills.
2. Fold paper in half and lightly rub. (Saying "Booooo!" usually helps.)
3. Open and voila! a ghost appears.
4. Add googly eyes.

Thoughts:

This was a project we did over and over last Halloween and it was always a huge hit. We even did it as a craft at our Halloween party and every child enjoyed it.

Options:

Once the paint dried, I cut around the shape and hung fishing line through a hole and hung them all over the house.

When making ghosts, white paint (or glow-in-the-dark paint!) looked best on black paper. But the nice thing about this craft is that you aren't limited to just ghosts. You can use any color paint and paper to make creepy bugs, monsters or aliens. (The more googly eyes the better!)