These cute tissue box monsters are a great way to recycle an old tissue paper box! Kids will love designing their own monster. And we love that every tissue box monster can be unique!
Here are the Supplies You’ll Need to Make These Tissue Box Monsters
- Tissue Box – preferably one with a round opening so that it looks more like a mouth but a square opening could work too!
- Coloured acrylic paint – we used two different colours, one for the outside of the box and one for the inside
- White acrylic paint
- Googly eyes
- White cardstock
- Large pom-poms
- Black sharpie or marker
- 1 popsicle sticks (optional for the purple monster)
- Craft knife (optional – adults only)
- Glue – hot glue is always going to work best when working with large googly eyes and pom-poms, but you can also use an extra-strong glue. Just make sure to let it thoroughly dry and press and hold for the glue to take.
Directions to Make Tissue Box Monsters
Pull out any plastic inner lining inside the tissue box before you start.
Paint the outside of the tissue box with white to prime the box. Adding white will make sure the design of the tissue box doesn’t show through the paint.
Once dry, paint the outside of the tissue box a colour of your choice, and paint the inside a different colour.
Outline around the “mouth” of the monster (the opening of the tissue box) with a black marker. This will make the mouth pop more.
For the purple box, cut 1 popsicle stick in half. Paint the pieces purple and let them dry. Glue 2 small googly eyes to the sticks. Make a small slit mark at the top of the box with the craft knife (adults should help with this part) to push the sticks in.
Glue large googly eyes to the top of the tissue box. You can add one, two, three or more eyes!
Cut out large teeth from paper or white cardstock. Glue the teeth to the inside of the tissue box mouth.
Give your monsters a little more character by glueing some large pom-poms to the top of the tissue boxes.
Aren’t these monsters just so cute? We love how easy they are AND the fact that you can recycle a tissue box to make them! You could even use a granola box and to make similar ones.