Monster Fun: Our Very Own There Was An Old Monster Box

The book, There Was An Old Monster! is always a hit with the Lil Divas so I knew we had to have some monster fun with it. Are you ready for some fun? 

Craft: Monster Box

We LOVE how our Monster box turned out!
The Lil Divas wanted it to look like the monster in the story
& I think we did a fabulous job! What do you think?

It was pretty easy too!
Ready to make your own monster box?
Here's how -

What You Need:
tissue box
construction paper
*we used 2 sheets for the body and some scraps for the eyes and tooth*
wiggly eyes (you can also use paper & markers)
glue
scissors

What To Do:
1. Wrap the tissue box in construction paper.
1 paper covered the length as seen below

2. Take a send piece and cover the sides. 

I measured and cut the paper as needed.

Now your monster face is covered & ready for decorating!

3. For the horns I cut out a horn shape to match the photo.

The Lil Divas used bingo do-a-dot daubers to make dots on them.

4. To make them stand up on the box - I cut a small strip of paper and made a circle. I glued it to the back of the horn  and voila - they now stand up nice & straight!

5. For the eyes the Lil Divas cut circles from various colors of construction paper. We used 2 for each eye and topped with a colored wiggly eye. I LOVE the mismatched & misshapen eyes - so fun!

6. Add 1 yellow tooth and your monster is complete!

The best part of this craft -

there are so many ways to use this little guy!

We practiced number recognition.

I wrote numbers 10-20 on small sentence strips and 

the Littlest Diva had to feed the monster the correct number. 

The Oldest Diva reviewed 20-30 for fun - 

she had to get in on the action! 

Then I had her practice counting to 100 by 10's.

She counted out loud and fed the monster the correct numbers as she went along.

Then of course we practiced a few sight words that have been giving her some trouble.

She had to read them and if she was correct, she could feed them to him.

There are so many possibilities -

practice letters, numbers, math, colors & more.

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Another fun activity we did was some Story Retelling 

to practice their comprehension.

Story Retelling (from Making Learning Fun)

Making Learning fun had these great printables. 

I just changed it up a little by using a paper bag with a ziploc inside. 

The girls loved seeing all the things the monster ate fall into his belly!

We had lots of fun with this book!

Don't forget to check out the rest of our Monster Fun

Bern

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