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Monster Craft | Valentine Craft: Easy Love Monster Mini Valentine Greeting Card + Links To FREE Resources

Make your own easy, cute and special "love monster" greeting card with the kids. In this activity we will transform and customized some printable small "monster theme" valentine cards that is use to hand out small valentine treats to friends or classmates into a mini valentine greeting card with fun zig zag, wavy or scallop borders all around them.  I wanted to try a different way of creating greeting cards from the usual format that is normally done and thought we'd use these cards. Get creative by gluing or drawing additional hearts and details on the card or monsters. Store card in an envelope made using any plain valentine colored paper or valentine pattern paper. GET CREATIVE WITH A MINI VALENTINE GREETING CARD + LINKS TO FREE PRINTABLES! Lauren made some "mini valentine greeting card" as part of our "monster theme" valentine activity and she gave the cards to me and her grandparents on Valentine's day. Grandma and Grandpa were happy...
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Carton Tube Fox

2-11-2016 -- This was an art project that Lauren did in Brightly Beaming Resources' (Step 2: Letter of the Week) homeschool curriculum for the "x" sound as in "foX". I did a search for some fox crafts for kids and saw this "Fox Toilet Paper Roll" craft from dltk-kids.com. There are many other versions of doing a toilet paper roll fox out there but I chose this one because of how convenient and easy it is for kids to make. We made used of this 1-piece empty paper towel roll tube I found in the cabinet.

DLTK have 2 kinds of fox template: colored (that kids can cut  and glue immediately on tube) and black & white (that kids can color then cut themselves to glue on tube). I chose the black & white template so Lauren can personally color them herself. Lauren made 2 kinds of foxes in brown and orange color.

Lauren used oil pastel colors in coloring the templates. 


The template has a rectangular pattern that is used to cover a toilet paper roll. Since paper towel rolls are longer than toilet paper rolls, I just cut the extended part of the tube to where the rectangular piece of the template ends when it is glued on the tube.


Lauren also added some whiskers to the side of the fox's mouth, though they are not that visible due to the thickness of the oil pastel colors that make it hard to write with a coloring marker or pen on it. With this, you could use small thin pieces of black construction papers or maybe small strands of black or brown yarns to glue on the side of the foxes' mouths if you wish to add some whiskers


This is really a simple fox craft for kids to make, if you're looking for a fox craft to do with your kids, you should try this one from DLTK. 


I put the foxes onto a grass outside and they look like foxes on a field that was able to catch a mouse, hehehe!! The colors were smudged, it is better to use crayons or coloring pencils instead if you are coloring this black & white template. Anyway, Lauren's foxes still look cute though. Kid's can use it for pretend play afterwards.

 DOWNLOAD THE FREE PRINTABLE "FOX TEMPLATE", GREAT FOR CREATING YOUR OWN "CARTON TUBE FOX"

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