Theatre @ Home

“You’re never fully dressed…” without a little glitter, some feathers, and glue!

Help your children make their own theatre mask.

What You Need: Cardboard, magazines, glue, glitter, pipe cleaners, paint, etc.

1. First, help your children cut out a theatre mask as big as a pillow from the cardboard. You can usually fold the cardboard in half, draw half of the face with a pencil, then cut it out.
2. Next, go through magazines and help your children cut out anything that represents them: what they like and dislike, what they want to be when they grow up, their name. If you want, you can take pictures of your family for their mask.
3. Then, help your children put all the things you found in the magazine into a giant collage on the theatre mask. Make sure you fill up all the spaces. It’s okay if the pictures overlap.
4. After you’re done, you can help your children put on the finishing touches by adding eyes with the glitter or hair with the pipe cleaners.

Whether your child is playing the role of a tap dancing monkey (like Aaron Burr in the North American tour of Dr. Doolittle) or making his or her own imaginative creature, masks are easy transformation tools for building a character.