DIY Halloween Craft: Making Paper Masks

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Four Hazel Village animals seated together wearing decorated paper masks.

The Hazel Village animals love to make crafty costumes for their special holidays (like the Squash Festival), and for their theatrical endeavors (like “Lady Littlepaw’s Quest”). If the costume is an easy paper craft that recycles materials they had around their houses, so much the better. So these masks are the perfect project! In the human world, this would be a great DIY Halloween craft for kids, or for anyone who loves to make costumes.

Supplies:

Recycled cardboard
Pencil
Scissors
Paint
Paint brushes
Glue sticks
String
Leaves
Recycled paper scraps
Tape
Rubber bands

How To Make Masks:

Draw a mask shape on recycled cardboard, then cut out using scissors.

Hazel Village doll Phoebe Fawn surrounded by the materials for making paper masks: cardboard with a mask traced onto it, a cut out mask, scissors, and a pencil.

Decorate your mask using any materials you like. 

Hazel Village animals seated with just their legs showing surrounded by the masks that they have decorated in addition to the materials used to decorate the masks: scissors, watercolor paints, paper, thread. One mask is decorated with a black and white grid, another with green and pink tissue paper, another with the word, “BOO!” written many times, one with yellow leaves, and the last left blank but with 2 white shapes attached to look like bunny ears.
  • For the leaf mask, we used glue to paste leaves and create a leaf-collage!
  • For the spider mask, we painted the mask black, then glued down string to create the web.
  • For the mosaic mask we used, we tore up recycled paper scraps and used glue to create a mosaic pattern.
  • For the bunny mask we used extra recycled cardboard to cut out the ears. We then used glue to secure the ears, and painted our mask grey.

To make your mask wearable, use a rubber band. Flip your mask over so that the back side is facing up. Then using a piece of tape, secure the rubber band to the back side of the mask, placing the tape between the eye holes. 

 

Hazel Village animal Phoebe Fawn’s feet with a white paper mask cut out, tape, and a rubber band.

Wear your masks to celebrate fall!

Hazel Village animal Emma Rabbit laying wearing a mosaic mask surrounded by the materials used to decorate the masks: scissors, watercolor paints, paper, thread, glue, leaves, a paintbrush, scissors, and tape.

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