Materials
Step 1 — Make the body: Choose a shape for your monster. Draw a rectangle, circle or strange shape on the cardboard. Ask an adult to help if you need to cut thick cardboard.
Step 2 — Create the face: Make a funny mouth, big eyes, sharp-looking paper teeth or a long tongue. You can give your monster one eye, three eyes or even ten!
Step 3 — Add the details: Use paper scraps, bottle caps and yarn to make hair, horns, arms and legs.
Step 4 — Give it a name: Write your monster's name on the back. Your monster is ready!
Creative challenge: Can you make a monster that looks scary but is actually kind?
OPTION 2:
Materials
A clean, dry, empty plastic bottle
Bottle caps and cardboard scraps
Recycled yarn or wool
Recycled paper or foam
Child-safe scissors
Craft glue
Markers
Optional: cotton or scrap paper for light stuffing
Step 1 — Choose your bottle
Choose a clean, dry plastic bottle. Ask an adult to remove the cap ring or any sharp parts if necessary.
Step 2 — Design your monster
Decide where the eyes, mouth, arms and legs will go. You can use bottle caps for eyes or buttons for decoration.
Step 3 — Add the personality
Glue on yarn hair, cardboard horns, paper teeth and colourful details. Give your monster a unique look.
Step 4 — Make it stand out
Add cardboard feet or arms. If you want a softer body, an adult can help you add a little stuffing inside the bottle.
Step 5 — Name your monster
Invent a name and a special power. Your monster is complete!
Creative challenge: Can you make a monster using at least five recycled materials?
OPTION 3:
Materials
Two pieces of thick felt or sturdy fabric
Recycled fabric scraps from old clothes
Yarn or thick wool
Clean stuffing from an old cushion, or shredded scrap paper
A large blunt plastic lacing needle
Craft glue
Child-safe scissors
Pre-punched holes around the body pieces
Step 1 — Draw your monster
Draw your monster on paper first. Choose its shape, size, eyes, mouth, teeth and extra features.
Step 2 — Prepare the body
Use two matching pieces of felt or fabric. The teacher prepares the pieces and makes the holes before the activity.
Step 3 — Decorate the front
Add the eyes, mouth, teeth, ears and other details. Use fabric scraps to make your monster different from everyone else's.
Step 4 — Join the pieces
Place the two body pieces together. Thread the thick yarn through the pre-punched holes using a large blunt plastic needle.
Start at one side and continue around the edge. Leave a small opening at the bottom.
Step 5 — Stuff your monster
Carefully add small amounts of stuffing through the opening. Do not overfill it.
Step 6 — Close the body
Continue lacing around the edge until the opening is closed. Ask your teacher to secure the yarn.
Step 7 — Add the final details
Add yarn hair, fabric patches, horns or a funny tongue. Give your monster a name and invent its story.
Creative challenge: Can you create a monster with an unusual shape, a secret power and a surprising personality?
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