The Wood Station: Monster Trio Tutorial

Monster Trio Tutorial

How cute is this Monster Trio set? I had a blast making these! The possibilities are endless when it comes to these. You could do them in ANY color or paper and make them look awesome! These monsters come on a base and dowel with the face kit.

1. Pick your paper – The wood station has so many choices when it comes to paper, it was hard for me to pick out just 3 that I wanted to use. I wanted to go with something bright and fun.

2. Pick your paint – With so many different shades of every color, this makes it very easy to match your paper.

3. Paint the base and dowel whatever color you would like. (I chose black as it would kind of tie everything together and matched all of my paper.)

4. Trace each of your monster’s heads onto the paper of your choice. Choose which side you would like to be the front of the face and put that face down on the back side of your paper. I always get mixed up, so I like to mark the front side with a small “F” in the middle of my piece.

5. Cut out faces and set aside. These monster’s are a little bit of a pain since they have so many curves and tricky spots to be cut out, but it is so worth it!!

6. Paint the back and sides of your monster’s heads going slightly onto the edge of the front.

7. One the paint is dry, using the Wood Stations wood glue, glue the paper on the monster’s head. Set aside.

8. Paint the pieces for the monster’s faces and let dry. Glue them together and put them on the monster heads.

9. Cut strips of paper to glue to the bottom of the dowel. Glue and sand the edges.

10. Sand the edges of the heads.

11. Glue the hair onto the top of the monster’s heads. I found the easiest way to do this was using the E-6000 glue. It dries faster than the wood glue.

12. Glue the dowel to the head, unless you want to be able to turn them.

13. Tie your ribbons on and enjoy your cute little monsters!!