Sock Monsters

I wrote a post a while ago about how we are trying to make more of our time together in the evenings, particularly on the days Tommy is at nursery. I've really been making an effort to have something ready for Tommy to do as soon as he gets home. This might be a puzzle, a craft activity, a new colouring book, a collection of books, basically anything that encourages us to sit down together, have some quiet time, chill out and chat about our days.

I don't know about you, but we are always inundated with odd socks. Every time a load of washing goes into the washing machine, it seems to devour at least one sock, rendering it's matching one completely useless. So I came up with a little fun project to make use of them. Sock puppets would have been the obvious choice but we opted to make sock monsters that would stand up on their own. 

To make them, you will need a range of different socks, cotton wool balls, PVA glue, googly eyes and a range of different facial features cut out of foam or card. We also used self-adhesive foam shapes to add spots to our monsters. 

First, we cut off the foot of our socks just below the heels. Then we stuffed the toe part with cotton-wool balls, folded over the open end of the sock and then glued the edges together. 

 

To make the feet, we cut their shape out of a circle of card and glued it onto the bottom of the sock. Once dry, we cut eyes, noses, teeth and arms out of card and glued them onto the socks.

The possibilities of this activity are endless. You could make a range of different weird and wonderful monsters or even a range of different animals. We found these so much fun to make.