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Paper Plate Monsters

October 5, 2015 by OneMommy

Laundry, dishes, grocery shopping…  Moms are always busy!

Wondering how to squeeze in a kids craft this week and still get all those chores done?

This Paper Plate Monster Craft is easy enough for the kids to work on by themselves while you get dinner ready or fold that basket of laundry.

Paper Plate Monsters: simple kids monster craft

 

Materials Needed for Paper Plate Monsters:

  • Paper Plates
  • Construction Paper
  • Crayons/Markers
  • Glue Sticks
  • Other fun additions:  yarn, google eyes, pom-poms, pipe cleaners, craft foam  (Tweak this list to fit your needs.)

 

If you want to create monsters with big, round mouths, like ours, simply cut the centers out of the paper plates before giving them to the kids.

For very young children you may want to have construction paper ears, horns, noses, etc. cut out ahead of time that they can then glue on wherever they’d like.

Preschool-aged children and older can get creative and cut out their own pieces. This can be great scissor practice for preschoolers!

 

kids monster craft

 

Some kids will jump right into this craft, knowing exactly what they’d like to add to their paper plate monster.

If your child is struggling, you can brainstorm ideas together.

  • “Do you think your monster needs horns?”
  • “You can cut triangles out to glue on for teeth.”
  • “How many eyes will he have?”

 

Sometimes kids just need a bit of help at the beginning before their creativity really kicks into gear on a craft.

 

paper plate craft -- fun kids monster craft

 

These fun monsters make great Halloween crafts and decorations.

You could also easily glue craft sticks to the plates to turn them into masks for the kids to use in pretend play.

 

We used our paper plate monsters to inspire a writing activity.

fun paper plate monster craft

 

We worked on writing strong paragraphs, starting with a topic sentence, adding at least 3 details and a closing sentence.

“This is my monster.  It has 4 eyes.  It has sharp teeth.  It has a big mouth.  I like my monster.”

For older kids you could have them write a short story about their paper plate monster.

 

So, when the kids ask to do a craft this week, grab the paper plates and let the kids get creative with these paper plate monsters while you work on cooking dinner or getting those dishes done.

 

Other paper plate crafts you may like:

  • Paper Plate Pufferfish
  • Paper Plate Flower
  • Paper Plate Collage Turkey
  • Paper Plate Snow Globe
  • Paper Plate Crafts for Summer



 

 

 

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Tagged With: Halloween craft, paper plate craft

Comments

  1. Katie (Growing Up KaterTot) says

    October 10, 2015 at 12:22 pm

    I absolutely love paper plate crafts! They’re super inexpensive and fun for kids. These monsters came out looking fab! Great idea! #busydoinglife

    • OneMommy says

      October 13, 2015 at 12:17 am

      Paper plate crafts are one of our faves, too! 🙂

  2. helen gandy says

    October 11, 2015 at 5:06 am

    These are great and such a good idea……simple to do too! Popping over from #busydoinglife

    • OneMommy says

      October 13, 2015 at 12:15 am

      We had so much fun with this craft. Thanks so much for popping over!

  3. Claire says

    October 13, 2015 at 3:05 pm

    What a fun craft idea, they would look fab hung up together like a big family of scary faces! I love ideas like this that are simple enough for the smalls but still look great once they are finnished! Thankyou so much for sharing with me at #busydoinglife it’s great to hav eyou joining in!

    • OneMommy says

      October 19, 2015 at 8:32 pm

      We hung ours all on one door like a little monster family. 🙂

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