2 is not well explained- ask me questions if needed Part 2 - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/902606330/ - SUPPLIES - - lots of cardboard, maybe like a full box flattened out/disassembled - elastic, measured to fit your head with EXTRA LENGTH - scissors - glue/hot glue (hot glue is better, tho mine is with normal glue) - rubber bands (to help it keep its shape while it dries so you don’t have to hold it) - TIME. if you don’t want your parents to know, you’ll have to take it in steps and hide the mask wherever you can. I’ve made mine with whatever scraps of time I can get, holing up in my room and hiding it whenever I hear someone. If your parents don’t care, just go ahead and make it :) - a pencil! you’ll need it to outline pieces - INSTRUCTIONS - 1 - (SEE PICTURE ONE) Take your big cardboard piece and press your face into it. With your pencil, make a line where the top of your forehead/hairline is, just beside both your temples (inside your face, by your eyes) and under your nose. Also make ovals where your eyes are. Add length under the nose to cover your face better (I forgot this for mine lol) and add cheek-like things. Connect all the lines to make a mask-like shape and cut it and the eye shapes out. Congrats! You now have the basic shape of your mask! 2 - (SEE PICTURE TWO) Place your mask base onto a piece of cardboard and make a line where you want the muzzle to start jutting out. Set the base aside and fully draw your muzzle, cutting it out as well. Then make the cardboard piece that will be your snout. Take note of what animal you’re making as you do this, as that will determine the length. Make it a little longer then necessary, so you have some extra length if you need to trim it and such. Fold the piece so it and your muzzle piece fit together well. Cut two diagonal lines in the snout piece, pointing towards where you are going to put your muzzle. Then glue the muzzle and snout piece together, using the rubber bands to hold them together (if you don’t have any, use your hands if you have time, or find something to jam the two pieces together). Wait to dry. 3 - (SEE PICTURE THREE) While you wait for the snoot to dry, you can start working more on the base. For starters, you need to flatten the base out against a large piece of cardboard. Trace the shape of it on the cardboard, then make a large cheek-like shape to cover your cheeks. Make another and cut these out. At this point, you need to take your base and bend it against something hard and rounded (ex: the bottom of a rolling desk chair, your thigh) so it fits and hides your face and looks better. You also want to round your cheek shapes. Now glue the cheeks to the base, using rubber bands to keep them in place (or your hands, or whatever you have on paw). Most likely you will have to cut the cheek pieces to make sure you can see well out of the eye holes, but wait until after it dries to do this so it doesn’t slide everywhere. FOUR IS MOSTLY OPTIONAL! If you don’t need this step, you can skip it- it is about adding a snoot connector and ears. If you’re making an animal with no ears or you don’t need a snout connector (I do highly recommend one though), skip it! 4 - (SEE PICTURE FOUR) Once all of your pieces are dry, you can start getting ready to put everything together. One thing you’ll probably need is a snout connector. A snout connector is just a small little piece to help the snout be angled how you want it to be. If you want to hide your face, this helps you angle it a bit more downwards. First things first, take a piece of your scraps (yes I know you have SO MANY scraps) and cut it into a long, thing strip about half as wide as your index finger or thumb. Make sure it is as long as (or longer than) your snout. Remember you can trim it up later! Take it and bend it to be rounded, and to make sure it actually fits your snout, take the snout (if it's dry by now, take the rubber bands off) and place it on top of the snout connector. Now the connector should be bent enough for it to fit the snout. Get your glue out and glue the connector to your base (MAKE SURE IT'S EXACTLY WHERE YOU WANT IT TO BE!), using rubber bands or whatever you can find to secure it while it dries. While it's doing that, take a fairly big piece of cardboard and draw two shapes for your ears with your pencil (If it's cat, very triangular and pointy; if fox, then long and pointy; etc). Cut these out and you have finished this step.
