Multicolored Monster

Indulge your kids' delight at being a little scared. Kids who have fears might sculpt their worst nightmare-and feel less afraid of it in the process.

1. What makes something scary? Is it how it looks? Its colors? Shape? Sounds? Monsters in frightening stories and myths have features such as lots of heads, pointy horns, clawed feet, barbed tails, sharp fangs, and giant wings. Some monsters are a mix of different creatures combined into one. Let your imagination run wild and create your own scariest monster of all!

2. Using Crayola® Model Magic®, sculpt your creature. Use white or colored Model Magic. Mix colors that give you goose bumps by blending Model Magic with Crayola Washable Marker colors. Shape your monster body and parts out of the modeling material. The modeling material sticks to itself, so you can easily add pieces such as horns and ragged teeth. Dry.

3. Add monster details with markers. Maybe your monster could sit by your bed to scare off bad dreams.

Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project.

Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough With Small Parts— WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—

• Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
• Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
• Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
• If the arts & crafts project involves making small objects, follow the small parts/choking hazards standards: WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children under 3 years."
• The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
• Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
• Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient. Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic, and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.

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crayola supplies

• Markers
• Model Magic®

"This project helped allay my son's fears about creatures that go bump in the night. Now he sleeps easier."
Joshua T., dad of 4-year-old.

"Kids wrote poems to go along with their monsters, much like Angelou's poem set to Basquiat's paintings."
Juliette R., after-school volunteer.

The word monster comes from a Latin word meaning to warn. These imaginary creatures were believed to be an early warning system about impending disaster.