Holiday fun! Tissue Box Monsters!

Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 9:59am

Hi everyone! This week I'll be posting some #holidayfun ideas. On Thursday we will do another #virtualshowandtell so we can see what we have been doing this week. These are only ideas - fell free to be creative and have a fun week!

These tissue box monsters are a great way to recycle an old tissue paper box! Kids will love designing their own monster. And we love that every tissue box monster can be unique!

Here are the Supplies You’ll Need to Make These Tissue Box Monsters

– Tissue Box – preferably one with a round opening so that it looks more like a mouth but a square opening could work too!

– Coloured (acrylic) paint – we used two different colors, one for the outside of the box and one for the inside

– White (acrylic) paint - yet do try any paints you have!

– Googly eyes – you can make your own using white card and black pen or pencil

– White card or paper

– Large pom poms or balls of paper

– Black sharpie, marker

– 1 ice lolly sticks or twigs from outside (optional for the purple monster)

– Craft knife (optional – adults only)

– Glue 

How to Make Tissue Box Monsters

1. Pull out any plastic inner lining inside the tissue box before you start.

2. Paint the outside of the tissue box with white to prime the box. Adding white will make sure the design of the tissue box doesn’t show through the paint.

3. Once dry, paint the outside of the tissue box a colour of your choice, and paint the inside a different color.

4. Outline around the “mouth” of the monster (the opening of the tissue box) with a black marker. This will make the mouth pop more.

5. For the purple box, cut 1  stick in half. Paint the pieces purple and let them dry. Glue 2 small googly eyes to the sticks. Make a small slit mark at the top of the box with the craft knife (adults should help with this part) to push the sticks in.

6. Glue large googly eyes to the top of the tissue box. You can add one, two, three or more eyes!

7. Cut out large teeth from paper or white cardstock. Glue the teeth to the inside of the tissue box mouth.

8. Give your monsters a little more character by gluing some large pom-poms to the top of the tissue boxes.

Aren’t these monsters jfabulous? We love how easy they are AND the fact that you can recycle a tissue box to make them! You could even use granola box and to make similar ones. Thank you 'Best Ideas For Kids' for this great idea.

Tweet or email nbrown@cliffordallsaints.sheffield.sch.uk any photos and I will post them all on Friday!