• Scissors
• Glue sticks
• White glue
• Markers & crayons
• Colored construction paper
• Old magazines & catalogs
• Heavy-duty paper plates
• Yarn or fun fur
• Tissue paper
• Paint stirrers (if desired)

1. Cut out eyes, ears, noses, and lips from magazines to glue down and/or draw your own to create your features on the mask.
2. Add yarn, fun fur, or tissue paper hair to duplicate your hair style.
3. Add freckles, eyebrows, earrings, hair bands, etc. to personalize your mask.
4. If you want to be able to actually use your portrait as a mask, have an adult make eyeholes for you.
5. If you want a handle, attach a wooden paint stirrer to the bottom of each plate.  To help the handle lie flat over the rim of the plate, cut a tab in the plate that’s the same width as the stirrer.  Then glue the handle to the tab and the back of the mask.

Variation:  Pair up with a friend, and make portraits of each other.