Make some Easy Clay Monsters

My boys and I recently made some clay monsters together. This was a great project to introduce them to sculpting and painting, and it got them out of their mom's hair for a few hours.

When doing creative projects with kids, it's important for adults to let the kids do their own work and not worry too much about what the kids' finished products look like. Your goal should be to help them experience the challenge and joy that comes from successfully making something.

I made the little green monster with the bright red lips. The yellow and orange ones were made by my boys, ages 5 and 7.

I'll show you how we made them, and share a few tips that will hopefully help you and your kids have a good experience making some, too.

Step 1 Draw up some ideas

To begin, I had my kids draw some monsters they thought would be fun to make out of clay.

I told them that the best part about making monsters is that there aren't any rules, so you can make them any way you want. Ultimately, they went with familiar human-shapes, which I'm guessing is typical for a child's first monster sculpture. We'll get a little more crazy next time.

Comments

[happyjo]

These are awesome! :D

[james4]

i mean uh first

[james4]

i was bored and looking around and i thought omg that fist one is kinda scary O_O

[ynze]

Real monsters! Wow!

[Ninzerbean]

These are great!

[seamster]

Thanks!