1. Critters Creative Inventions and Robotics www.build-it-yourself.com

2. Nuts, cork, small rock, paper or card stock. 1” x 1” piece of white card stock. Three 6” pipe cleaners. Colorful beads 6” x 3” colorful cloth. 12” string, yarn or ribbon.

3. www.build-it-yourself.com Let’s start by making a head.

4. www.build-it-yourself.com Draw a set of BIG eyes from a piece of white card board or foam rubber. Add a touch of color. ½”

5. www.build-it-yourself.com Much of the personality of your critter is in the eyes. Make them carefully! Make them big! ½”

6. www.build-it-yourself.com Try clever combinations of using paper cones to make head shapes.

7. www.build-it-yourself.com Try making a head from plain paper or card stock. First draw a face and color the hair. 1½” 4” Cut Hair Cut slits in the top so you can bend the hair.

8. www.build-it-yourself.com Wrap the paper in the form of a cone. A 6” pipe cleaner will serve as a neck. Tape it all together! Tape Pipe Cleaner

9. www.build-it-yourself.com Now let’s make some hair. Wind about 10 loops of yarn around 3 fingers. Tie the string in the center.

10. www.build-it-yourself.com Cut the 2 loops. Viola … you’ve got a head of hair!!!

11. www.build-it-yourself.com Glue the hair on your head head and give it a hair cut. Now let’s make the body.

12. www.build-it-yourself.com Twist three 6” pipe cleaners together in the center. Bend the arms and legs out.

13. www.build-it-yourself.com Cut out a 6” x 3” piece of colorful cloth.

14. www.build-it-yourself.com Bend the 6” x 3” cloth in the middle. You’ll have a 3” square.

15. www.build-it-yourself.com At the bend, cut out a small hole for the neck.

16. www.build-it-yourself.com Cut out a shirt.

17. www.build-it-yourself.com Cut out a shirt.

18. www.build-it-yourself.com Put it on the pipe cleaner skeleton.

19. www.build-it-yourself.com Roll the neck pipe cleaner so you can glue your hard head on. Bend the ends of the arms and legs to make hands and feet.

20. www.build-it-yourself.com Bend the tail back so your critter can stand on 2 legs and its tail.

21. www.build-it-yourself.com Tie a belt around your shirt.

22. www.build-it-yourself.com Bend the ends of your arms and legs You could glue some shoes or hands on.

23. www.build-it-yourself.com Glue the head on your body and put it in your contraption.

24. www.build-it-yourself.com Try your own designs!