What do you need to create a mask for a fox?

Fox, along with a wolf, a bear, is the most famous character of children's fairy tales and fairy tales. From this article you will learn how to make a fox mask with your own hands and what is needed for this. It takes quite a bit of effort, time and materials from you.

How to make a mask of plain paper?

To make an inexpensive mask, buy colored paper for children's creativity, glue, markers and two ropes. You will need paper or cardboard in four colors - orange, light orange, red and black. First, cut out from the black paper the silhouette of the muzzle of the fox. Then from the orange sheet, cut one more silhouette smaller than the previous one by about one centimeter. Then, from the light orange paper, cut out the silhouette of the nose and eyes. Also make two small triangles for the ears. From black cardboard make a small triangular nose and mustache. Cut out the thick red eyebrows from the red leaf. Glue all parts together. On the sides of the mask fox tie ropes. The mask is ready!

What will it take to create a mask of fox from felt?

You will need the following materials: hard felt two to three millimeters thick (orange, black and white), thread, needle and elastic. First, draw a fox muzzle pattern on the paper. Cut it out and attach it to the felt in orange. Circle the pattern with chalk and cut the muzzle of the fox already out of felt. In the same way, make of felt a white color, nose and white triangles, which you will sew to the ears. Sew your cheeks, nose and white triangles to the muzzle. The chanterelle is almost ready! If it seems to you that the mask is not sufficiently rigid, then you can sew another layer of felt or cardboard to the wrong side. In this case, your product will not crumble much. Also, you can decorate your mask of a fox, embroidering on it a black mustache and eyebrows. In addition, it can be decorated with artificial or natural fur.

Mask of fox from fur

Incredibly beautiful are masks of foxes made of fur. To create such a product, you must first cut out the base in the form of a muzzle of thick and strong cardboard. The muzzle can be made volumetric if to cut out additional parts and to glue them. It is better to join pieces of cardboard not just with scotch, but with pieces of paper soaked in PVA glue. After the base is ready, immediately attach to it the ropes for attachment to the head. Then take fur of red, white and black color. Stick it as shown in the photo. Note that the direction of the fur fibers should go from the nose to the ears.

What else can you do with a fox mask?

You can make it not only from cardboard, fur or felt. If you want a fox mask on your head to be strong and durable, then it can be molded from polymer clay. But know that this material will need to be baked in the oven to make it hard. You can try to make a mask from self-healing clay, but then it will most likely be too fragile.

Also, the fox mask works well in the papier-mâché technique. To do this, you will need to buy some art or child's plasticine and dazzle it with a muzzle model. Then take the newspaper and tear it into small pieces. Wet these scraps in a glue of PVA and cover the muzzle of a fox from plasticine. Make thus three to ten layers. Remember, a large number of layers will make your fox mask more durable and durable.

After all the layers have dried, remove from the clay mask. Now the product can be painted! Acrylic colors are best for this purpose. After the paint has completely dried, cover the mask with a varnish. Do on the sides of the product with a hole in the hole and thread the ropes into them. The mask is ready!