"Keep it Simple, Sweetie" with Craft; Alphabet Monster

This little guy is super cute and I think he is actually going to be fairly handy in my house. I have made him to help my four year old with her letters but I'm going to make another one for my six year olds high frequency words. Awesome.

 What you need;

Some bright paper for decoration

A container. (I used a baking powder container because it was empty. It is 125g, fairly small, but I thought this was good. Any box or container you have would work.)

A computer to write the letters nicely (Not essential)

Laminator paper to make it last longer (again not essential)

Scissors

Sticky tape

Anything to decorate

Method;

Cut a slit hole in your container. (I just used scissors for this but it depends on your container.)

 Write the letters or words on your computer

 Print them out onto your bright paper

 I did upper and lower case letters on different coloured paper.

Cut them out

 I then laminated them to make them last longer but this is not essential. Cut out the laminated letters. Stay 1/2 cm away from the paper edge, so the laminated sheet stays together.

 Decorate your container

 Cover it in bright paper, I then put wide sticky tape around it, so it would last.

 Add the cute touches. two layers of foam and an eyeball.

 The game;

The game is to match up the upper case and the lower case letters.....

And feed them to the monster. It is very important to tell the monster what he is eating, the name of the letter and the sound that it makes. 

Yummy, happy monster. xx