It is a bit too early to carve our pumpkins so we made them masks.

These masks are simple to make from recycled cereal boxes and a bit of paint.

First, download the template. This post is not meant to be questionable.  I have received so much grief from my family about the template (got to love teen boys) that I only gave you half a template. It doesn’t help. It still looks like a ….

Mask Template Download

Make your template and cut out your mask from a cereal box. To make the witch we cut off the ears.

Lightly score the nose.

Fold the nose under and hook into bottom of mask.

For the witch we added a hat by cutting a large triangle shape with long rectangle shape at bottom. Lightly score the rectangle so it will fold.

Fold rectangle together and staple to make brim.

Staple hat to top of mask.

Paint.

And paint.

Staple a piece of elastic to each side of the mask. Make sure it fits snugly around the pumpkin.

We finished and then someone wanted to be a witch. So I cut out the eyes and now I have a witch! Check out those eyelashes!

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