My boys love our craft time and they were super
excited about the prospect of making yarn monsters. I have a ton of leftover
yarn from various crafts that I have done in the past and my past attempts at
knitting {I am so not good at knitting}. So I decided that we would be putting
my leftovers to good use this week with a simple kid craft that the boys would
love.
They totally loved making these! By using child
safety scissors my 4 year old was able to work on his cutting skills safely
{this is a fine motor skill that needs to be worked on and developed in the
preschool age}. They boys liked wrapping the yarn and they loved picking out
the eyeballs and gluing them on. It was a really easy kid craft with virtually
no clean up.
What
you Need:
yarn
googly
eyes
glue
piece
of cardboard {I cut off a piece of cardboard from a box roughly 5”x4”}
How
to Make It:
Wrap
the yarn around the cardboard piece (long-ways) about 75-100 times
Tie
a knot around the center of yarn.
Cut
through the center of the yarn on either end of the cardboard {this is your
monster’s body}.
Glue
your googly eyes onto the monster body {I used a quick dry glue}.
As an
added option you can glue on pom poms for feet and twist a pipe cleaner around
the body for an antenna.
Once
these little monsters were made and the glue had dried we had a lot of fun
playing with them. We threw them into baskets to help us polish our target
skills {this was not my forte}, we threw them at each other {and ended up with
a case of the monster giggles}, and we even chased each other around the house
with the monsters {this usually ended up with serious monster tickles}.
Needless
to say they were a big hit! I may start collecting these in a basket somewhere
for just such rainy day activities in our future and add to the collection with
more yarn colors. The bright and cheerful colors are an instant mood booster on
dreary days.
Have you ever made yarn monsters?
