Crafts

This took longer than expected. We needed two meetings (about 2 hours total) to finish this project. They came out fabulous and the kids loved them. By the way, expect a big furry mess. I still have bits of fur floating around my classroom. (They keep multiplying like gremlins!)

Monster Box DIY video is available on YouTube. The video shows you how to make the monster box using modeling foam (a flexible lightweight foam that air dries) rather than oven bake clay. Be sure to use flexible acrylic paint since regular paint will crack and peel off.

Monster Book of Monsters

Materials: craft fur (2 per book, Michaels), fine-point brown Sharpie pen, hot glue gun, craft knife, oven, tin foil, baking pan, clay sculpting tools, Sculpey oven bake clay in red, brown, and white (1 color each per book, Michaels), black, red, and yellow acrylic paint and brushes, yellow monster eyes (4 per book, Amazon), wooden book box

Directions:

Mold the clay pieces using your the tools and test them out on the wooden box.
Bake the pieces on cookie sheets in an oven according to clay package directions. Meanwhile, draw book page lines on the box using a fine-point brown Sharpie pen.
Glue one piece of the fur to the bottom making sure that it hangs over the edge. Use your scissors to cut the overhang into points. (This will be messy.)
You will need to cut the other fur piece so that there is a triangular hole for the eyes and snout. (Start small. You can always widen it if necessary.) Do NOT glue it down yet.
Once the clay pieces have come out of the oven and have cooled. Paint the snout to add detail and glue on the eyes. Glue the snout to the wooden book box, then adjust the size of the fur piece and glue it down.
Glue down the tongue and teeth.

House Ornaments

Materials: DIY ornaments, Mod Podge, foam brush, House printouts, crinkled gift bag shredded paper, ribbon

Directions:

Cut out House coat of arms and use Mod Podge to glue it to the ornament.
Put an extra coating of Mod Podge over the top of the House coat of arms, and wipe off an excess.
Fill ornament with colored shredded paper(s) of choice.
Add the ribbon.

Cornish Pixies

Materials: wooden clothespins, blue paint, paint brushes, white ribbon, blue pipe cleaners, scissors, glue, tiny blue pom poms, white paint, black Sharpie, blue felt

Directions:

Paint clothespin.
Cut ears from felt.
Cut wings from ribbon.
Paint belly and draw eyes and mouth.
Glue on wings, ears, and nose.
Wrap around pipe cleaner for arms.
Optional: put several in a cage. (The cage I found at Michaels and painted it black.)

Mandrake

Materials: clay pot, leaves, tin foil, glue gun, acrylic paints, paint brushes, twine, white Fimo polymer clay, clay sculpting tools

Directions: go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9OC_KHJ06A to watch a video on how to make this mandrake.

You will need two sessions to complete this craft with the club members (about 2 hours total). One for molding and baking the clay, and the other for painting and gluing on the roots and leaves.

Niffler

Although a niffler isn't strickly from the Harry Potter universe, it is still from that world (ie, Fantastic Beasts), and it's really cute!

I made this using brown felt, large pony beads, and this great super-soft, fur-like material I found at the fabric store.

I used a pattern and the directions I found at DIY Niffler Plushie and added the feet myself by enlarging and enlongating the pattern for the "hands".

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