Easy peg monster craft for kids
Materials:
- Wooden pegs (clothespins)
- Yarn – for best affect use different textures and colours but any will do
- Pipe cleaners
- Googly eyes — or use our free printable paper eyes for a more eco-friendly version
- Acrylic paints
- Plastic beads
- Gel pens
- Tacky craft glue – regular glue usually isn’t strong enough to hold a yarn pom pom
How to:
- Paint your pegs in bright colors and allow to dry
- Wrap some yarn around your fingers. I’ve wrapped it around three of my fingers, but a child might need to wrap it around four. Once you have a nice sized bundle (no specific size, anything goes really) slide it off your fingers and tie a separate piece of yarn around the centre tightly in a double knot.
- Use your scissors to trim the looped ends on either end of the yarn bundle giving you a thin pom pom.
- Apply glue to the inside top of your peg, and stuff the bundle of yarn in so that the pom pom ends are sticking out like hair. Once the glue dries you will still be able to open and close the peg even with the yarn glued in there.
- Cut a pipe cleaner in half and poke it through the spring in the centre of the peg. Thread a plastic bead onto each end of the pipe cleaner to make hands and twist the pipe cleaner ends back around themselves so the beads stay in place.
- Glue either one or two googly eyes on the front, and draw a mouth with gel pen.
Reference: https://www.thecrafttrain.com/monster-craft-for-kids/?fbclid=IwAR3jXHkr3zVcYAkdLq6YqkvMFNUhjcmdD08BrJ9AvH-MWcwYA4MWn7nY0fU