Make a mini monster mailbox to gobble up Valentines!

What is going on! Some
...thing is out of control!

       Something looks very suspicious, is growling and well, frankly, doesn't smell so good. I guess this is our first monster entry, hopefully the last, if you know what I mean...

 Supply List:

• fuzzy yarn
• white school glue
• cardboard scraps
• small cardboard box
• white acrylic paint
• small Styrofoam balls (for eyeballs)
• chenille stems or wire
• pink or red paper (for tongue)
• recycled egg carton (tiny parts for feet)
• two cotton balls (to wrap wire, optional)
  

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. First cut an oval, or any other shape you like, from the center of the box front for your doll's monster mailbox mouth. Make sure to include sharp teeth and a place for a 3d tongue!
2. Glue on the feet of your monster; ours are small cut parts from a recycled paper egg carton.
   
3. Cut a long tongue from scrap cardboard and cover this with pink or red paper and glue.
4. We shaped our monster's tongue in wavy by holding it in place while it dried.
5. Wrap and glue the monster's fur using a fuzzy yarn. Let dry.
6. Glue the tongue into place.
7. Paint the teeth white.
8. Poke hole in the top of the mailbox for wire or chenille stems. 
9. Poke and glue Styrofoam balls into one end of the wire with glue. Let dry.
10. Bend the wire into crazy shapes or loops then glue it into the holes that you have already made on the top of the monster mailbox head.

Left, this thing has tiny feet... Right, the tongue is big and the teeth are sharp!

Left, beady, googly eyes. Center, just as furry from behind. Right, stinky, hot-pink tongue!

Left, this crazy monster mailbox is eating everything in sight! Right, OUUUCH!

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You can cast a vote for this Valentine mailbox entry in the Comments Box Below, although I don't know why you'd want to for this fuzzy beast! It would be interesting to see if people/kids on the internet judge our doll's Valentine mailbox competition in the same way as the children judging them in our home. Oh, the dolls have left the classroom...