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Catherine Romano blogs about crafty projects for kids and parents

While searching for my son’s Halloween costume,  I stumbled upon a small black mask in the clearance section. At first glance, the mask looked very plain but I thought it would make for a great art project. I decided to make the purchase and asked my son to choose a few decorative materials.

Materials:

• Mask
• Decorative materials (My son chose these stickers because they looked like the buttons on a robot’s control panel. However, felt, pom-poms, feathers, and fabric flowers could also work well)

Process
1. Experiment with a sticker pattern.
2. Once you decide on a particular pattern, attach to the mask.
3. Edit any final details (i.e. cut edges of stickers along mask border).  Read more...

Wild Thing Costume: Our Wild Thing looked like this.

Inside the suit, he was actually Jack Syperek from the Trews.

But if, as the movie tag line claims, there is a wild thing in each of us, we suggest unleashing the creative powers of the folks at your Rumpus upon a liberal supply of feathers, yarn, construction paper, duct tape, paper bags, paper plates cardboard boxes and fabric remnants. See what they come up with. It might be something like this: