10 Fun Monster Crafts for Kids

With the increasing use of technology for education and gaming, it is difficult to keep your child away from gadgets that harm their mind and body. Also, this competitive era demands your child to be creative and smart. This requires that your child gets into creative things at an early age. Creativity from childhood will make them self-aware and provide expression of thought.

Well, unleashing creativity has never been more exciting than with monster crafts for kids! Monster crafts are fun and crazy, and there is no defined way to make them. The monster your child makes can have ten arms or five eyes. These crafts are a perfect way to build your child’s imagination. Also, if you are not the creative type of a parent, worry not because the monsters are already ugly. So, put on your creative caps and start exploring these easy monster craft ideas at your home.

Colourful Monster Crafts for Children

Monster crafts have become quite famous these days since they are easy to make. We have curated 10 monster craft for preschooler ideas that you will surely love. Let’s get started!

1. Monster Rocks

Creativity on the rocks started in the early ages. Most of our historic things were carved on rocks and were known as rock. These days it has again become a trend. This is because you can easily find flat rocks around you. Also, your kid will love to see how a plain simple flat-rock turns into a beautiful, cute monster. You can also use these rock pieces as decoration items for your living room! Let us just check out all things you require for this monster craft.

Materials Required 

The requirements are pretty simple, and most of the things must already be present in your craft closet. So here’s the list:

• Flat rocks
• Acrylic paint
• Paintbrush
• Black marker
• Googly eyes
• Hot glue gun

Instructions

Let us now know how to make a monster craft on flat rocks:

• Make your child paint all the rocks with different colours.
• Let it dry out.
• Once the paint dries, draw mouth and teeth.
• Glue the eyes on it.
• Your monster is ready!

2. Recycled Tin Can Monster

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Tin cans get thrown away each day. Why not make something fun and interesting out of these. The child will understand and get into the habit of putting up best out of waste. This way, their imagination power will get a boost. Also, this project puts into use multiple materials like tissue paper, fabric, yarn, etc. So, let us check out how to go about it.

Materials Required 

• Felt or fabric sheets that are easily available on any e-commerce site.
• Tin cans
• Hot glue
• Googly eyes
• Scissors

Instructions 

This is how you can make your cute tin can monsters:

• Put glue over the tin cans with the gun.
• Now cover the cans with felt and paste the googly eyes as many you want.
• Cut out teeth, mouth, horns, hair, etc., from the felt sheets.
• Paste the feature cutouts over the covered can.
• And you are done!

3. Monster Shapes

This project will not only let your child have creative time but teach him/her the basic shapes, colours, and counting. If you think your child is big enough to know about all this, then he/she can create this on their own and surprise you with their creativity.

Materials Required 

• Craft paper
• Glue
• Scissors

Instructions 

Let us now see how this educative yet fun monster craft can be made in steps. Steps to be followed in order are:

• We are making six shapes for this project.
• All are basic shapes that can be drawn and cut out easily. These are oval, square, circle, heart, pentagon, and square. You can add a rectangle and a hexagon if you want.
• Cut different colour craft sheets in desired shapes.
• Now cut the monster features like eyes, teeth, mouth, arms, etc., in a specific shape.
• In our project, we have used semi-circles for the mouth, small triangles for teeth, and big triangles for the nose. A big circle is cut out for the outer circle of the eye, and a small circle is cut out for the pupil inside the eye. Rectangular strip cutouts are required for making arms and legs.
• Now glue each feature to all the shape monsters as you like.
• Glue the arms of each monster to each other to form a chain.
• This will help you display your child’s artwork nicely and feel proud!

4. Handprint Monster Craft

Each parent will agree that your child turns to be a monster sometimes. But you love your monsters way too much. That is why you will love this DIY monster craft idea as well. Your kids will love them too because it uses their handprints. Also, you can use these handprint cards for gifting on various occasions. I can feel the excitement already, so let us know more about them without much adieu!

Materials Required

The things required for this project are:

• Colourful cardstocks: These are easily available online, and we will be making 4 handprints here.
• Googly eyes: A lot and of different sizes.
• Black marker
• Glue
• Pom poms

Instructions 

Do the following steps in order and enjoy:

• Fold the cardstock sheet in half.
• Trace your child’s palm over the folded cardstock.
• Cut out the handprint from the cardstock.
• Once the handprints are ready, now start sticking different google eyes and pom-poms over the handprint.
• Blue Monster: We added a large google eye in the centre.
• Pink Monster: We added a large and a medium-sized eye in the centre.
• Yellow Monster: We have added three small eyes in a line at the centre.
• Green Monster: A medium-size and two small eyes on both sides in a line.
• Now add mouth, teeth, and pom-poms as you like to decorate your monster.
• Write the card inside and gift it to your loved ones!

5. Monster Paper Plate Ring

Here we will be creating cute monster faces with paper plates. This project helps the child push their imagination and developmental skill a little further. It lets the child cut, paint, and stick. Also, you do not require a lot of material for the same. Most things you will easily find at your home. So let us go ahead and look at the details of making a wide-open mouth monster!

Materials Required 

• Paper plates
• Coloured card stocks: easily available online
• Paint
• Paintbrush
• Glue
• Scissors
• Googly eyes

Instructions 

Now let us note down the steps about how to create these monsters:

• Take a paper plate and cut its centre part.
• Cut out the horns and teeth for your monster.
• Now paint the leftover plate with your favourite colour.
• Stick the horns on the upper boundary of the painted paper plate.
• Stick the teeth on the inside boundary of the paper plate.
• Next, stick as many eyes of different sizes below the horn in a suitable manner.
• Your wide-mouthed scary yet cute monster is ready!

6. Smashed Paint Monster Puppets

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This project will be fun and will keep your child curious and entertained for long hours. The child will learn the process of colour mixing and how beautiful colour effects are created. With the post creation of puppets, the kid can play with the puppets as well. Isn’t that interesting? So let us know more about it!

Materials Required 

• Craft sheets
• White cardstock
• Paint
• Adhesive craft sticks or you can use ice-cream sticks
• Scissors
• Googly eyes
• Glue

Instructions 

The following instructions will lead to the creation of the monster puppet sticks:

• Fold the cardstock half to create a crease in the middle.
• Add paint in the middle of the paper. Add as many colours as you want. While adding the colour, make designs like lines or swirls or dots.
• Once the paint is added, fold the cardstock and rub with fingers from crease to boundaries.
• After the rubbing is done, open the fold and let the monster’s face dry.
• Once the paint dries, cut out the monster’s face.
• Cut thin rectangular strips from craft sheets to create hair, hands, and legs for the puppet. Bend and fold the strips for hair to give curls.
• Now glue the adhesive stick, limbs, hair, and googly eyes to the puppet. Add as many eyes of different sizes to your puppet.
• Finally, draw the mouth using a marker, and your puppet is ready!

7. Cardboard Monster

Are toilet paper cardboard rolls stacked up in the house? Want to use them creatively? Do you have kids in the house? If your answer is a Yes to all three, then we have an amazing idea to use them. Make homemade monster craft out of the rolls. Let’s see how!

Materials Required 

• Craft sheets
• Cardboard roll
• Pom poms
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Scissors
• Pipe cleaner

Instructions

• Take a craft sheet and glue it on the cardboard roll.
• From the remaining sheet, cut two circles for the eyes. Now stick googly eyes on this.
• Cut a small semicircle from a black colour craft sheet for the mouth. Cut teeth from a white sheet and stick on a black semi-circle.
• Stick the eyes and mouth to the roll.
• Attach pom-poms to the pipe cleaner ends.
• Now stick the eyes, mouth to the cardboard face.
• Stick the pipe cleaners to the cardboard top to make antennae. And it’s done!

8. Popsicle Stick Monsters

Kids will enjoy painting and decorating their own silly or spooky monster pals using popsicle sticks. Once done, they can be used as bookmarks, puppets, or even classroom decorations. Let’s bring these cute little monsters to life!

Materials Required

• Popsicle sticks
• Paint
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Coloured paper
• Pipe cleaners (optional)
• Scissors
• Craft glue
• Pom-poms, buttons, stickers (optional for extra fun)

Instructions

• Start by painting the popsicle sticks with bright colours. Let them dry completely.
• Once dry, glue on googly eyes; add one, three, or even more!
• Cut out small shapes from coloured paper for the monster’s mouth, teeth, horns, or arms.
• Stick the shapes onto the popsicle stick to give your monster a funny or fierce face.
• Add pipe cleaner arms, pom-poms for hair, or stickers for extra decoration.
• Let everything dry and your monster is ready to play!

9. Monster Pen Holder

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Turn an old plastic bottle into a fun and funky monster pen holder! With just a few decorations, this monster will be guarding pencils, markers, and even secret treasures in no time!

Materials Required

• Empty plastic bottle (any size)
• Scissors
• Coloured paper
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Tape
• Markers or paint

Instructions

• Cut the plastic bottle to the desired height using scissors. You can use the bottom half as the holder. (under adult supervision)
• If the edges are sharp, cover them with tape or foam to make them safe.
• Wrap coloured paper or foam around the outside of the bottle and glue it securely.
• Decorate your monster by gluing on googly eyes, cut-out teeth, and fun shapes for ears or horns
• Draw or paint any patterns or monster details you like.
• Let it dry, and now your monster pen holder is ready to gobble up all your pens and pencils!

10. Paper Cup Monsters

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This easy and colourful craft is perfect for little hands! Kids can turn plain paper cups into goofy, scary, or totally silly monsters.

Materials Required

• Paper cups
• Paint or markers
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Scissors
• Coloured paper or foam

Instructions

• If using plain cups, start by painting them your favourite monster colour. Let them dry.
• Glue on googly eyes; big, tiny, or a mix!
• Cut out teeth, tongues, horns, and arms from coloured paper or foam and glue them onto the cup.
• Poke holes in the cup and thread them through or glue them on.
• Add pom-poms or stickers for extra fun details.
• Draw on extra features like spots, scars, or silly smiles with markers.
• Once dry, your monster cup is ready to roar!

FAQs

1. How long do these crafts usually take?

Most simple monster crafts can be finished in 15–30 minutes, making them great for short attention spans. For older kids who enjoy adding extra details, they can spend more time customising their monsters however they like.

2. Are monster crafts safe for preschoolers?

Monster crafts for preschoolers are safe as long as age-appropriate materials and supervision are provided. Use child-safe scissors and non-toxic glue, and avoid small parts that could be choking hazards.

Monster crafts are a great way to imbibe creativity and developmental skills in your child. Their motor skills improve while crafting. It also boosts hand-eye coordination. So it will be great if you spend some time with your kids and do create these crafts. Above all, this fun time with your kids will create an amazing bond parent-kid bond too. Happy parenting!

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