Caroline
It’s been a long time since I was a child but I can still vividly remember the excitement over finding the prize in the cereal box. In fact, since the prizes were so treasured by my siblings and me, I often woke up extra early so that I could be the first person to reach my hand into the cereal box and dig around for the special prize. Sometimes that prize was impossible to find so I found a big bowl to dump the cereal out into and then carefully poured it back into the box. {Shhh, don’t tell my Mom!}
While we were enjoying our yummy cereal we thought of a fun way to re-purpose our cereal boxes by making them into DIY Minion Stick Puppets. It is a simple kid craft that can provide hours of fun pretend play for the little Minion lovers in your life.
Supplies you will need:
- cereal box
- scissors
- blue and yellow paint
- paint brush
- craft stick
- googly eyes
- gray cardstock paper
- black marker
- black pipe cleaner (optional)
- tacky glue
Directions:
1. Cut oval shapes out of cereal box and paint them
Start by cutting oval shapes out of your cereal box for your Minions. Paint the top of your oval yellow and the bottom of your oval blue. Set them aside to dry completely.
2. Create glasses and glue eyes
Cut out circles from your gray cardstock paper and glue one or two of them onto each of your Minions for the glasses. Glue your googly eyes onto your gray circles.
3. Add other details
Finish your Minion puppets by adding details with your black marker, i.e. glasses frames, smile, hair. You might also like to add small pieces of black pipe cleaner to the back of your Minion for hair.
4. Glue bodies onto craft sticks
Glue minions onto craft sticks.
My daughter has been having a blast playing with her Minion puppets alongside her Minion cereal box prizes! Her favorite character is the caveman Minion. I’ve taken a liking to the little pirate. Which character is your favorite?
