"The Creature in You!" Craft

A few days ago in the Activity Room, we decided to try a new craft project that we tentatively called "the Creature in You!" This craft was designed to encourage the kids' creativity, and it worked great!

To do this craft, all we needed were markers, scissors and blank sheets of paper.

• First, fold the blank, non-lined paper in half.
• Next, write your name in big, cursive letters on the half-sheet.
• Then, take a pair of scissors and cut around your name. Be sure to get into all of the little spaces!
• Unfold your new "name/shape." Voila! The shape inside is the "Creature in You," color it or design it as you wish!

The kids had creatures of all different shapes and sizes, and they were encouraged to fill in all of the blank space on the paper while making it into some kind of monster, alien or other wild creation. The kids all had a great time doing this craft project; in fact, some of them did two or three different creatures, and two kids did both their first and last names.

It's a fun craft, is easy to do and created really cool works of art that all of the kids who participated should be proud of.

Above: Each child's name, written in cursive...

Below: ...the "creatures" within each name!