Make your own paper monsters! 

Materials: 

• Paper (various colors), 

• Glue, 

• Scissors, 

• Maker/Sharpie

Steps: 

1. Fold top of paper down a little less than half way. 

2. Cut the part you just folded into a semi-circle. 

3. Draw eyes on another piece of paper and cut those out. 

4. Cut a longer piece of paper to make a tongue and another set of pieces of paper for teeth. 

5. Glue pieces on to paper above and under flap to make the mouth, and glue eyes on to of paper. 

6. Cut out random shapes to make the monster more detailed! 

Send someone an Artistic Hug! 

• First, Grab a large piece of paper (or a bunch of small pieces of paper), pencil, paints (if available) or colored pencils/crayons/markers. 

  • If you don't have a large piece of paper, but do have a lot of smaller pieces, you can always tape them together. 

• Lay out the paper so your head, shoulders, and upper body are on top of the paper with your arms out, and have someone trace out your body on the paper. 

• Paint or color yourself in with the colored pencils/crayons/markers. Make sure to include your eyes, ears, nose and mouth! 

• Cut out your portrait, and fold the arms like they are giving a hug! 

• Write a note to someone who might need a hug, and have fun sending them the note and the artwork! 

Practice your cutting skills by making squares, circles, and triangles to make your own train!

Materials: 

• Construction Paper (various colors

• Scissors 

• Glue (bottle or stick) 

• Markers/Colored Pencils (optional) 

Steps: 

1. Start by cutting out various shapes from your construction paper. I would suggest at least 2-3 different sizes in squares, rectangles and triangles, and circles. 

2. Make sure to also cut out circles from black paper for the wheels of the train. These should all be similar in size. 

3. Make your trains by gluing down 2-whatver number you like of larger rectangles for the train cars. 

4. Glue wheels below these on each of the corners of the large rectangles. 

5. Continue to add to your train by gluing smaller squares or rectangles for the windows, thin rectangles for smoke stacks, and small to medium triangles fro the front bumper of the train and the top of hte smoke stacks. 

6. (optional) Use the markers to make the panes for the windows, and the tacks for the train (the tracks can be done before the wheels are glued on as well). You can also use the markers to make designs and patterns on the train! 

Use Topography to create your own 3 dimensional mountain from paper! 

Materials: 

• Construction Paper (various colors)- I have 3 of each of the 5 colors in my images. 

• Sicssors 

• Glue Stick 

• Pencil/Pen 

• Cardboard Pieces (cut into small squares) 

Steps: 

1. Start by simply drawing a shape on one color of construction paper. This will be your smallest shape, which will be the top of your mountain. Once draw, cut this shape out. 

• You can make this shape as simple or as complex as you like. but this will begin to determine the overall shape of your mountain. 

2. Place your shape from step 1 onto your next piece of construction paper and, following the lines you made on the first piece, draw a second, slightly larger piece on the new construction paper. Once done, cut this new piece out. 

3. Continue this process of putting each new piece onto the next construction paper, drawing, and cutting out. Do this until you get to the point where you are using almost all of 1 piece of paper. 

4. Cut the last piece out, and put them all together to make a stack. This will be the general shape of your mountain. 

5. Starting from the top (smallest piece) of your mountain, put a small cardboard square under your first piece using the glue stick, then stick that to your next piece. 

6. Continue this process. As you go, you will need to add more cardboard pieces as your construction paper layers get bigger. 

• Hint: Make sure you are putting these pieces towards the edge of your construction paper so that your pieces don't flop down onto the next piece of construction paper. 

7. Continue to put these pieces on until you get to your last, and largest piece. Once this piece is attached, let it dry and you are finished! 

Use the elements of Shape and Color to create a eye-catching animal! 

Materials: 

• White Paper (any size) 

• Animal Picture (same size as paper)

• Tracing Paper (same size as animal picture)

• Pencil

• Construction Paper in the color of your animal, Cut into shapes (same shape, different sizes)

• Glue Stick

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Steps: 

1. Start by deciding which animal you would like to make as your piece, and find a picture of that animal. I chose a giraffe, and when I've done this project, I've chosen the head to be the main focus of the picture. 

2. Trace out the outline of the animal's head by placing the tracing paper on top of the photo, and using your pencil to outline it. 

3. Flip tracing paper over and go over your lines one the other side. 

4. Flip your tracing paper back over and place it on top of your final white paper. Go over the lines again to transfer the pencil marks form the other side onto the paper. 

Once your have your outline, its time to fill in your paper! 

5. Start this part by cutting shapes out of your construction paper. These should be the same shape, just different sizes, and the construction paper must be the same color as your animal's fur/hair/scales/etc. 

6. Once you have enough pieces. Start putting them inside of the outline by putting glue onto the pieces and sticking them down onto your paper. 

• Having both large and small pieces here is very helpful, as it will help you fill in spaces. 

7. Completely fill in the outline with your shapes, then use an eraser to erase the outline lines that you can still see!