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Get crafty during Mardi Gras this year with a printable Mardi Gras mask craft!
Since we’re roadschoolers, I love when our learning happens around geography. And, specifically the cultures and traditions in those places we’re exploring.
So, for Mardi Gras this year I wanted to incorporate some hands-on crafting around a New Orleans tradition.
Printable Mardi Gras Mask
These masks are a perfect craft to do with kids. It gives children a hands-on project to complete that can be used as a stand-alone activity. Or, it can be added to a unit study or included as a part of more in-depth learning about New Orleans culture.
I made a one page printable you can download at the bottom of the post. It includes a mask template, but also fun feathers, jewels, hearts, flowers, and stars. Your child can color, paint, and decorate the pieces and assemble their own unique Mardi Gras mask!
When my daughter and I did this craft we couldn’t stop ourselves at just one and ended up with 3 different masks!
*Tip: to cut the eye holes for the mask, fold the mask slightly so the eye portion you will cut away is folded onto itself. Then, make a small slit with your scissors. This will give you a place to insert your scissors and cut around the eye hole.
Supplies for making your Mardi Gras Mask
This mask craft couldn’t be simpler! The one-page printable template has everything you need to just color, cut, glue, and play with your masks. But, you can also add some other fun crafting items to your masks. Like glitter.
So. Much. Glitter. My daughter and I may have gone a bit overboard with the glitter. But, that’s only according to my husband and son;)
I think it would’ve been fun to add craft feathers to our masks, but I couldn’t find any in my black hole of a craft cabinet… ahem. So, I just included them in the template. And, the colored paper versions came out great!
Here are the supplies we used plus a few other ideas:
- Fine Tip Markers
- Colored Pencils
- Elmer’s Glue
- Sequins
- Glitter Shakers
- Glitter Glue
- Popsicle Sticks
- Stickers
- Plastic Gemstones
- Craft Feathers
We decided to glue a popsicle stick to the side of our masks to hold them up to our faces. But, you could just as easily use a hole punch and string to tie the mask around your child’s face.
Halfway through making our masks, my daughter convinced me to make a few smaller masks for her toys and dolls. What a pain to cut those eye holes out! But, she really enjoyed it so…;)
Find this FREE template in my shop and get crafting!
*Click HERE for Mardi Gras Mask*
Have fun making your Mardi Gras Masks!
Heidi
