Serious Monkey Business
Make a Simple Monkey Mask from a Cereal Box
Suitable for all ages
Step 1
You will need:
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A piece of card (a cereal box is ideal, very young people could use a paper plate).
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Red, blue, yellow paint.
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Paint tray or pot.
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Black marker pen. Glue (stapler optional, not needed but adds strength) Wooden stick (flat craft ones are good ) Sticky tape.
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Pencil and ruler. Scissors
Step 2
Draw and cut a circle, I drew around a small plate and cut out a circle of around 22cm for the head
Step 3
We all enjoy colour mixing. Mix red, yellow and blue together to make brown. Lots of red in the mix makes a rich, deep brown. Or make blue monkeys.
Step 4
Time to paint the head I used two coats of paint. When your paint is dry, fold in half and cut a heart shape out of the middle. I did this on a paper plate so you can see it more clearly. The bigger and wider the heart, the more of your face will show.
Step 5
Fold the heart shape in half and cut across it to make the ear shapes. Cut a smaller circle out of white card to make the inner ears. Glue your inner ear on the outer ear and glue the ears to the head. I put my ears on low, but they can look good a bit higher as well, so have a quick check where you like them best before you glue them on