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The Amazing Recycled Crafts Contest
Paper Bag & newspaper Lion
- Contest Photo by: Christine_So
- Oakland, CA
- Category: Just for Fun
Description
The only store-bought material in this project was glue. This lion's face was made from entirely recycled paper: newspaper, grocery bags, and magazine pages for the colorful details.
It was successfully recreated by my two kids, ages 4 and 6, with varying amounts of glue, as you can imagine. you'll never look at a brown bag the same way again!
For younger kids you might want to precut some of the shapes. With older kids, they can trace your lion's eyes, ears or nose as a stencil onto whatever magazine page they find.
It was successfully recreated by my two kids, ages 4 and 6, with varying amounts of glue, as you can imagine. you'll never look at a brown bag the same way again!
For younger kids you might want to precut some of the shapes. With older kids, they can trace your lion's eyes, ears or nose as a stencil onto whatever magazine page they find.
Materials
Materials: a large brown grocery bag, old newspapers, magazines for color.
How to Make
Brown bag face:
From one side of brown bag, cut off one entire side. Cut a 4 x 8 inch rectangle from this. Snip off bottom corners to narrow into a chin.
Cut 2 half circles for ears from unused part brown bag. Glue on.
Magazines:
Find magazine photos with pink, brown, orange or green in them. Pull out.
Nose and inner ears:
Cut a small pink rectangle 1 inch x 1/2 wide from a magazine photo containing some pink. Cut 2 small half circles from magazine in pink or brown to be the inside of the ears. Measure them against your already cut ears to see they're smaller. Put in place, glue on.
The eyes:
Cut eyes from green or orange magazine photos. Arrange where you want, then glue in place.
Pupils, whiskers, nose:
Cut six 5-inch long narrow strips of magazine as whiskers and sides of nose. Cut three 1 1/2- inch dark strips to make split lip under lion's nose and as vertical pupils.
Newspaper mane:
Cut newspaper, into 5 x 10 inches. Make fringe on one side stopping 2 inches away from inner edge. Glue to back of head.
You're done! And you didn't spend a dime on fancy art materials.
Tips for Taking a Great Photo:
- Avoid clutter. Keep the background simple -- your gingerbread house or holiday cookie is the star!
- Daytime, natural light is best. If your area is bright enough, try taking the photo without the flash.
- Upload a horizontal photo. If you crop the image on your computer, make sure you keep a landscape 4:3 aspect ratio.
- For best results, make your image 1200x900 (or "save for web").
- With a digital camera, you can take as many photos as possible and choose the best one. Have fun!
