You probably have empty tissue boxes lying around the house already. When you're done, use the extra pom-poms to "feed" the monster. Turn it into a minute-to-win-it game by seeing how many pom-poms players can toss into the monster's mouth in 60 seconds.
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!
– Colored acrylic paint – we used two different colors, one for the outside of the box and one for the inside
– White acrylic paint
– Googly eyes – extra large ones can be found at Michaels, different sizes work best and small ones are needed for the purple box.
– White cardstock
– Large pom poms
– Black sharpie or marker
– 1 popsicle sticks (optional for the purple monster)
– Craft knife (optional – adults only)
– Glue – hot glue is always going to work best when working with large googly eyes and pom poms, but you can also use an extra-strong glue like this one. Just make sure to let it thoroughly dry and press and hold for the glue to take.
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Directions 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 color 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 popsicle 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 just so cute? 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.
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