Lion dance is a familiar activity every Mid-Autumn Festival season. The children were very excited by the pounding drums and the unicorn's exciting dance moves. To prepare for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival as well as create conditions for children to have healthy fun, parents can refer to how to make unicorn heads from cardboard below.
Method to make a unicorn head using cardboard
Prepare material
- 1 carton
- Pieces of cardboard
- Fabric
- Potato snack box: 1 tube
- Toilet paper core: 6 cores
- Plastic glue (can be combined with glue gun)
- Tape
- Brushes and paints
- Paper knife, ruler, scissors
How to make a unicorn head from cardboard
Step 1. Build a unicorn head model and color it
You can use a used cardboard box that is still intact. Then draw a half circle on the front of the box to form the mouth of the unicorn. The line needs to be 2-3 cm away from the edge of the box to create an easier folding line. Next step, you help your child cut the drawn arc with a paper knife then fold it, so we have a tongue for the unicorn.
Use scissors or a paper knife to cut vertical lines to make the unicorn's ears according to the image below.
Step 2. Shape the unicorn's eyes
Use 2 other pieces of cardboard, draw the same teardrop shape on it and then cut it out to make eyes
Cut the cardboard into rectangular bars, peel off the cardboard along the paper waves to create a curve for the unicorn's eyelashes.
Cut 2 more small circles, fill them black
Use candle glue to stick the prepared eyelashes and pupils to the eye
Let your child use a paintbrush to decorate the unicorn's eyes to make them more sparkling.
Step 3: Create horns for the unicorn head
A real unicorn will have a very cool horn. You need to place the potato snack tube in the middle of a rectangular cardboard, use 6 toilet paper cores to surround the snack tube, then fix it all with hot glue.
Use scissors to cut the cardboard strips into rectangles with a length of about 20 - 25 cm, separate the corrugated paper layers of half of them to create a curve, and then attach all the paper strips to the unicorn horn. Parents can let their children use a variety of colors to paint the unicorn's horns.
Step 4. Make a unicorn nose
You need to peel off the cardboard bars along the waves of the box, then roll them up in a circle and then fix them with glue. Then fill the entire nose with black.
Step 5: Create whiskers and teeth for the unicorn
You cut cardboard into small rectangular pieces of different sizes to make teeth.
Paint many colors on the leftover cardboard strips to make the unicorn's whiskers.
Use another strip of white cardboard and cut it into a wavy shape.
Step 6: Use tape and glue to put the details together
To perfect how to make a unicorn head with cardboard , you will follow these steps:
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Glue the teeth to the mouth.
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Attach colorful whiskers to the back of the unicorn's tongue.
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Attach white wavy lines around the mouth to make the unicorn look more prominent.
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Fix the unicorn's horn firmly with candle glue.
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Use hot glue to glue the eyes and nose to the cardboard.
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Attaching the prepared fabric to the edge of the carton to make the body completes the process of making a unicorn head using a carton.
How to make mini unicorn heads from cake boxes
Ingredient
Small cake box/candy box/coffee box
10 sheets of colored paper of different colors
10 sheets of A4 paper
Markers, pencils
glue
2-sided adhesive tape
Multi-colored nylon bags
Scissors, wooden sticks (can be replaced with ice cream sticks)
Let's start making unicorn heads
Step 1. Create a unicorn head
Similar to how to make a unicorn head from cardboard above, we will create a circular arc close to the edge of the cake box and use scissors to cut off this part.
Create a coat for the unicorn by spreading glue on colored paper and using a spear to wrap it around the box.
Step 2. Create a mouth for the unicorn
- Cut off the colored paper that covers the unicorn's mouth
- Use yellow and white cardboard to cut out the shape of the circle discarded in step 1, in which the white circle is smaller in size.
- Draw another curved line inside the white semi-circle and fill it with red to form the tongue.
- Use a black marker to draw the outer curve into squares to create a tooth shape. Cut off any excess details
- Fix the stick close to the bottom edge of the unicorn's mouth, glue the yellow arc on it, then glue the white arc on it.
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Cut an arc and draw teeth, then glue them inside the mouth and you're done.
Step 3. Create eyes, nose and horn for the unicorn
Fold 3 sheets of paper of different colors in half, use a felt-tip pen to draw a small water drop shape on the first sheet of paper, then gradually increase the size with the remaining 2 sheets of paper.
Cut off the excess and then re-glue in order: small first, large last
Draw a circle into the smallest teardrop shape with a black marker to form the pupil
Use newspaper or colored paper, cut into 2 rectangular strips, 0.5cm from the edge of the paper. Then cut the paper into tassels to create eyelashes.
Attach the tassels to the unicorn's eyes, use wave scissors to curl the eyelashes
Glue the eyelashes onto the eyes and then fix the eyes on the unicorn's head.
Cut 2 circles of different sizes, color them and glue them in the middle to form a nose
Use a plastic bag rolled up into a cone shape and then fix it on the unicorn's head with glue and tape to make the horn.
Step 4. Complete and decorate the unicorn head
Cut colorful plastic bags into many tassels, use double-sided tape to attach around the head to create a beard for the unicorn, and complete another way to make a unicorn head from cardboard ..
This method can not only reuse cake boxes, train your child's awareness of environmental protection, but also create a meaningful item for your child to display or bring to class to play with friends.
Above are 2 ways to make unicorn heads from cardboard . Parents, let's work together with your children to create meaningful moments with family members. Don't forget to check out the series of products that both help your child have fun and support intellectual development at Mykingdom via the link: https://www.mykingdom.com.vn/
