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Make an Alien Mask

alien mask You can make an alien mask like this one.

You will need:

  • Some squared paper
  • some card - A4 is ideal
  • Some Glue
  • Colouring pens or paints.
  • A stapler or sticky tape.

    If you do not have any squared paper you can download this file in rtf format. Open it in your word processor and print it out
    Right Click Here and select save target as.

  • Once you have your materials draw an x and y axis on the squared paper.
    The x axis should go from 0 to 19
    The y axis should go from 0 to 28

    Now plot these co-ordinates.

    Face:

    (8,4) (11,4) (17,16) (17,20) (16,23) (15,25) (14,26) (12,27) (7,27) (5,26) (4,25) (3,23) (2,20) (2,16)

    Left Eye:

    (4,19) (6,19) (8,17) (9,14) (9,13) (8,13) (6,14) (4,17)

    Right Eye:

    (15,19) (13,19) (11,17) (10,14) (10,13) (11,13) (13,14)

    Left Nose:

    (8,10) (9,10) (9,9)

    Right Nose:

    (10,10) (11,10) (10,9)

    Mouth:

    (8,7) (11,7)

    Once you have plotted the co-ordinates, join them together like a dot to dot.

    Now follow these instructions

    • Cut out the face and stick it onto a piece of card.
    • Cut out the eyes
    • Paint or colour in the face.

      Now cut two piece of card about 4cm wide from the long side of a piece of A4 card and stick them together, end to end. Like This

      Staple one end to the alien mask. Place the mask against your face and place the strip of card around your head. Cut to size and attach to the other side of the mask. It should be a bit like below.

      alien mask back

      Thats it, you now have an alien mask.