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Supplies you will need:
- paper plate
- white tissue paper
- school glue
- white cardstock paper
- empty plastic fruit cup
- white acrylic paint
- black marker
- large black pom-pom
- glue gun (adult use only)
- craft knife
(adult use only) - scissors
2. For the snout we used an empty plastic fruit cup. I also used it to make the ears by tracing it onto a piece of white card stock paper, cutting it out and then cutting the circle in half. This makes the two ears.
4. While the snout was drying, we put school glue onto a section of our paper plate and then placed white crumpled tissue paper squares all over the glue. Do this on every section until the paper plate is covered. We opted to not put tissue paper where the snout was going to go, but I don’t think it matters which way you do it.
5. Next glue the ears to the back of the paper plate.
6. Once the snout is dry, draw a bear mouth on the bottom of the cup with a black permanent marker.
7. Use a glue gun to run glue around the bottom rim of the cup and glue it down onto the polar bear face. Also use the hot glue gun to glue on the black pom nose. (Adult supervision required with use of a hot glue gun.)
8. To finish the mask, simply punch holes onto the sides of the paper plate and tie a knot on each end with a piece of string or yarn. They turned out so cute and my boys gave them a thumbs up!
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Tonii says
January 6, 2012 at 1:02 AMThese masks are absolutely adorable!! I am definitely going to steal this idea, thank you so much for sharing. I LOVE the pom pom nose 🙂
Sonya at The Three Bears Get Crafty says
January 6, 2012 at 1:15 AMWow, these turned out great!
Anonymous says
January 6, 2012 at 1:37 AMThis looks amazing!!! I love it!!
What a lovely collection of books too! 🙂
rebekah says
January 6, 2012 at 1:37 AMWhoops! 🙂 I clicked anonymous! 🙂 ^^^^
Thanks for sharing! 🙂 x
Michelle says
January 6, 2012 at 1:40 AMThis is so cute, Emily loves when we use plastic containers in our art projects. I think we are going to need a polar bear week! Thank you for sharing and linking up to stART 🙂
~Michelle
Michelle says
January 6, 2012 at 1:40 AMThis is so cute, Emily loves when we use plastic containers in our art projects. I think we are going to need a polar bear week! Thank you for sharing and linking up to stART 🙂
~Michelle
Little Wonders' Days says
January 6, 2012 at 1:55 AMThis is over the top cute!! Love it.
Lorie says
January 6, 2012 at 2:03 AMSo cute! I knew there was a reason I was saving those fruit cups…
Rachel Kaylynn says
January 6, 2012 at 3:50 AMCute! Pinning these to my winter unit board, hopefully we'll find time to make them.
Cari and Cortnee @ Two Sasters says
January 6, 2012 at 4:17 AMSoo cute!!
Brimful Curiosities says
January 6, 2012 at 4:39 AMThose masks are terribly adorable. What fun they must be to wear! Especially love the fruit cup noses.
The Bishop Family says
January 6, 2012 at 7:22 AMOk, I squealed with delight when I saw this post!!!!!!!! I absolutely love this craft. We are doing this next week for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[I realize there are like 20 exclamation points already on my comment, but I had to use that many!!]
BTW- I feel we would be great friends if we were next door neighbors. I agree with your post on my blog. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Years.
"The Kids Place" Home Daycare and Preschool says
January 6, 2012 at 12:28 PMLove this!!! We will be making this one. What a cute craft. Thanks for sharing.
Anonymous says
January 6, 2012 at 2:10 PMI love this idea! We have a polar bear book so we will read it first and do the craft after that, thanks!
CIndy says
January 6, 2012 at 3:43 PMLove this! I know my kiddos will too!! Perfect timing because we are reading about polar bears this week! I just reserved a couple more of your book suggestions at the library!! Thank you!! Another cute book is Panda and Polar Bear by Matthew J. Baek. We did a story art project with it that I hope to post next week!
JDaniel4's Mom says
January 6, 2012 at 7:33 PMThis is super cute! JDaniel was just talking about polar bears this morning! We will have to read these book and make the mask.
I pinned this post!
Kelly says
January 6, 2012 at 7:47 PMSuper cute! I have all the supplies and will be doing this with my kids soon. Thanks for linking up to my party!
chelle says
January 6, 2012 at 9:24 PMVery cute polar bear!! I'm always saving those little cups from fruit, pudding, or yogurts…so far we have just used them for paint/glue cups but now diff have to set one aside for this project 😉
Beth (www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com) says
January 7, 2012 at 1:29 AMThese are SUPER cute!!!!!! LOVE them. I am totally going to use these with my bear crazy boy =-)
Beth (TGIF)
Marissa says
January 7, 2012 at 1:17 PMThese are adorable! I think we may try this craft this morning!
Camille Griffiths says
January 7, 2012 at 3:44 PMThat mask is too cute!! I definitely need to do this with my daughter, she loves polar bears.
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Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas says
January 8, 2012 at 3:43 PMAh, did I ever mention that Polar Bears are my FAVE animal? LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them & this craft!
Thanks for sharing on the Sunday Showcase! I shared on FB & Twitter & will be pinning to my Bear Board on Pinterest too! 🙂
Bern
Ally @momstownteach says
January 8, 2012 at 9:11 PMSuch a cute and fuzzy mask! I also love the Snowy's Special Secret polar bear story – here's a link if you don't know that one… such a sweet story of mom and child love!
http://momstown-artsandcrafts.momstown.ca/node/459
The Evans Family says
January 9, 2012 at 4:07 PMSo, so cute! I can't wait to make them.
Katie says
January 11, 2012 at 5:36 AMThese are A D O R A B L E!!!! Pinning these and thanks so much for sharing those books, I haven't read any of them, and I would love to get some books on polar bears! Thanks for linking up with thrifty Thursday!
Barbara says
January 12, 2012 at 2:40 AMThese are SO sweet. I'm definitely making these with my Grade 1 class. Thank you!
❀Barbara❀
Grade ONEderful
Vicky says
January 12, 2012 at 4:00 AMWow, these came out great! I am excited to try them with my little ones. Thanks! Visiting from I Can Teach My Child. Vicky from Mess For Less
Barbara says
January 13, 2012 at 2:54 AMHi again,
I'm really enjoying your blog. Gave you a shout out on mine 🙂
Have a great day!
❀Barbara❀
Grade ONEderful
Diana - FreeStyleMama says
January 13, 2012 at 3:38 AMSuper cute! I found you via For the Kids Friday and am a new follower. I have a new meme called Thematic Thursday and this week's theme is Winter/Snow. I'd love to see this post linked up. Find Thematic Thursday here.
Beth (www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com) says
January 13, 2012 at 11:24 AMI featured this at TGIF Linky Party #12 – as it is your second feature feel free to email me at livinglifeintentionallyblog @gmail.com to get your special featured more than once button =-) Thanks for sharing your creativity with the rest of us & I can't wait to see what you link up this week!!!
Beth =-)
Natasha says
January 14, 2012 at 1:24 PMThis is being featured on this weeks Serenity Saturday link party
Feel free to grab an 'I've been featured' button
Hope to see you there again this week
http://serenityyou.blogspot.com/search/label/Serenity%20Saturday
Natasha
artsy_momma says
January 15, 2012 at 9:43 AMSo cute Rachel! I am going to have to check out that last book for sure…. I just LOVE all your paper plate crafts 🙂
Ally @momstownteach says
January 19, 2012 at 10:20 PMAdorable! Another polar bear book I love is called Snowy's Special Secret -it even has fuzzy touch and feel bears!
Thanks for linking up to momstown arts and crafts!
Anonymous says
January 31, 2012 at 11:45 PMIt is Winter Animals this week. I teach 3 year olds. We are going to make these this week. Thank You so much for the idea 🙂
equipo: Hannah/Noah/Hilke says
February 16, 2012 at 12:56 PMReally chute!! and a nice good understanding tutorial!
Anonymous says
February 18, 2012 at 9:44 AMThanks, we had a success at the Bellinzona Carnevale with them.
Alison Hyndman says
April 17, 2012 at 7:08 PMThese are adorable! I am doing a grizzly bear day so I will adapt these to brown masks< I'm sure they will be as cute.
Thanks for sharing your ideas,
Alison Hyndman 🙂
Cari Baumbach says
December 11, 2012 at 2:45 PMThese are absolutely adorable. My daughter enjoys making masks. These are perfect for this time of year.
Cari @ Reach For The Star Berries
Reach For The Star Berries
Cindy deRosier says
January 8, 2013 at 3:09 PMI'm the Editorial Assistant for Fun Family Crafts and I wanted to let you know that we have featured your polar bear mask! You can see it here:
http://funfamilycrafts.com/polar-bear-mask/
If you have other kid friendly crafts, we'd love it if you would submit them. If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above. Thanks for a wonderful project idea!
amal sania rida says
February 13, 2014 at 6:44 PMI made this mask at home n it was truly amazin i wanba send u a pic ov it how can i?
Mary says
March 5, 2017 at 2:06 PMThese are very cute – but I noticed the picture of the children wearing the mask look different than the original – Did you use 2 paper plates (or one &1/2)? They look longer and less rounded..
Rachel says
August 30, 2017 at 4:01 PMWhen you tie them in the back and the child places it on their head they do look longer and less rounded. I don’t think there is a way around that.