This DIY robot mask is a craft that kids of all ages will enjoy. It is made from a simple paper bag, covered in foil and adorned with their own choice of decorations. It was a really fun craft to do together, and we all loved the results. Now I have kids walking around saying, “I am a robot” in a robot voice. Abby was disappointed that she didn’t get to make one because she was at school, so the supplies may need to come out another day.
The first thing we had to do was find the right size bags. These Starbucks bags worked perfectly. Actually, one of them ripped as the kids were playing with it, so we traded it out for a similar size white bag.
I drew shoulder holes and Kenzie was able to cut them out with a little help around the curved part.
I had the kids put the bag on their head, and I drew a oval around where their eyes were located. I then cut out the hole so they could see and breath.
The next part was Corban’s favorite part…the glue. He liked to add a lot of glue to the bag. I did the glue around the edge, and he filled in the center. We did the back side first then covered the front, sides and top. Kenzie did the gluing on her bag as well.
After adding glue to one side, we would lie down foil and put the glue side down to adhere it together. We would then trim off the extra. Kenzie could do this, but I helped Corban with the trimming.
The masks were then all covered, and it was time to decorate.
We were given these glow in the dark foam star stickers and neon glitter glue for free from Craft Project Ideas. I thought they would be perfect to decorate our robot masks.
I used hot glue to attach the buttons. We bended or twisted pipe cleaners to make antennas. They did the glitter glue and stickers.
We cut toilet paper rolls and covered them with glue and foil to make the “ears” for Kenzie’s mask. We used Dixie ups for Corban’s mask, but he wanted to leave them polka-dot rather than covering them in foil.
Here’s Corban in his finished mask.
I was really pleased with how these fun robot masks turned out, and I think the kids really like them too.
So fUN! I am surely pinning this for doing this with the Robot lover here 🙂
Cool! I would love to see the results, so let me know if you do this.
I sure love this! Pinning it!
Check out our robots made in a similar way:
http://www.thechocolatemuffintree.com/2013/05/recycled-junk-robots.html
I love your robots. I’ll have to do that with my kids too. I just pinned yours also. My kids would love it. Thanks!
I love this!! My boys love robots and this looks like the perfect activity to keep them busy one of these days when they are having a bored moment. So cute!
Thank you so much. You’ll have to let me know if you do it!
These came out super cute! My kids aren’t really in to robots yet, but we’ll have to try something like this in a year or two.
Thanks. It was a fun craft, so I do hope you file it away in the back of your brain.
Hi! These are so cute. I thought they would make great “boredom Busters” so I featured them in my round up of Mom’s Library posts from last week. Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library– and come back this week to enter the iPad mini giveaway!!
http://www.ready-set-read.com/2013/06/ipad-mini-giveaway-on-moms-library.html
I nanny for an almost 5 yr old who has been asking me if we could “make” a robot for at least 3 weeks now! I’ve been looking on-line and on Pinterest and this is one of the best ideas I’ve come across! School is out where we live, so I will have a couple of full-days together between VBS and various camps the mom has the kids attending; I am excited to give this a try!
Thanks so much for letting me know. We had a lot of fun making these. This might be a craft I need to revisit. Have a blast with it!