Handprint Mask
Make a simple mask using basic materials.
Materials.
- Paper
- Scissors
- Card or thin cardboard e.g. cereal box
- Glue
- Sellotape
- 2 drinking straws, sticks or thin card for handles*
For Decorating:
- Crayons or paint
- Buttons
- Sequins
- Scraps of fabric or lace
- Stickers
- Oddments
Method 1: Cut out individual handprints and glue together
- Put one hand on a piece of paper or coloured card with your fingers slightly apart and your thumb pointing down
- Draw around your hand
- Draw around the other hand, with your fingers the same distance apart and your thumb pointing down.
- Cut around the outline of each hand
- With thumbs at the top, overlap the hand shapes
- Glue the two hands together onto a piece of card
- When the glue is dry cut out the shape of the mask with scissors.
- Cut out a circle on each palm to make the eyes.
- Use sticky tape to attach a handle (or two handles) to the back of the mask.
- Now decorate using paint or crayons and glue on any decorations.
Method 2: Cut out overlapping handprints as one piece
If your card is large enough, you can draw both hands overlapping.
Cut round the outline only.
Eye holes can be about 3cms apart – this is a rough guide.
Handles can be placed on the sides of the mask, or in the centre.
*A handle can be made by cutting a cardboard tube up its length (eg kitchen roll tube). Roll tightly and use sticky tape to hold it together.
Decorated handprints on a long string make good bunting.
Other Costume activities:
These activities will be enjoyed by children and adults of all ages.
The activities are rated according to difficulty and level of parental involvement: these descriptions are intended as a rough guide only.
We have rated them to help parents of children aged 8-13, on the assumption that above this age supervision is rarely required, and that below it, supervision is generally required.
: Set it up and off they go.
: Some help needed.
: Challenge yourself.