Make Your Own Creatures of Light

LAND

What You'll Need

Land: What You Need
  • Black construction paper
  • Scissors
  • color tissue paper (green, blue, yellow)
  • printouts of land creatures (forest, cave)
  • paper clips
  • tape
  • ballpoint pen

What To Do

1

Use paper clips to clip the printout and the black construction paper together on all four sides.

Step 1
2

Use a scissor to cut along the lines of the mushrooms and glowworm lures. (You'll be cutting through both the printout and construction paper.)

Step 2
3

Use a ballpoint pen to poke through the firefly dots.

Step 3
4

Take off the paper clips. Recycle the printout.

5

Measure and cut enough tissue paper to cover the shapes (use yellow for fireflies, green for mushrooms, blue for glowworm lures). 

Step 5
6

Tape the tissue papers to one side of the black construction paper. 

Step 6
7

Put your bioluminescent land creatures on a window!

Land Image 1
Land Image 2

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