Beary cute animal masks

Making a paper plate animal mask is a cute craft idea for those summer afternoons when it's almost too hot to play outside in the pool.

Step 1: help your kids decide which animal mask they'd like to make, and let them paint one paper plate. We did our painting the day before, just to make sure that the paint was totally dry when it was time to decorate.














Step 2: cut eye holes and draw the mouth and nose.
Step 3: cut out and staple ears to the top.
Step 4: make a small hole (I used a single hole punch) in the bottom of the plate and slide a stick through (I used wood skewers with the pointy end cut off). Tape and/or glue the stick to the underside.

Voila! A purr-fectly cute mask!