Cardboard Mask

• Cut a cardboard strip 1–2″ wide, a little longer than can wrap around your head.
• Bend it.

• Wrap the strip around your head, across your upper forehead without touching your ears.
• Hold it together with one hand while taking it off your head to glue it.
• Once the glue dries, put the ring of cardboard back on your head
• Cut another strip about 8″ long.
• Wrap the second strip from one ear, past the lower back of your head/top of your neck over to your other ear.
• Hold the pieces together and glue them together — away from your head!

• Cut two 2″ strips, 8″ long.
• Glue them to the sides of the crown like stubby antennae above your ears so that they stand out past your forehead at about 30° upward.
• Fold the last inch of these into tabs.
• Cut a crosspiece 2–3″ wide and a few inches longer than will take to cross these two antennae like an “H.”
• Glue it to give the “H” structure.

• Cut a large oval from cardboard, larger than your own face.
• Score the center.
• Bend it about 15°, and glue it to the “H” bridge. It will stand off your forehead a bit, facing slightly upward.

Draw large circles for eyes, and then cut them out of the mask.

• Cut a large rectangle for a snout to glue to the middle of the mask below the eyes, sticking straight out.
• Add extras like triangles for teeth, ears, horns, etc., folding them before gluing them to give your mask dimension (instead of sticking them on flat.)
• Paint over it, or don’t.

• Put it on.
• Hunch over so the mask is straight.
• Stalk around the room.
• Make wild sounds! Scare your friends, family, monsters under the bed, etc.