How to make a fox nose?

So here we are – once again, with a guest post over on Party Delights! This week, we made a Fantastic Mr Fox Mask – perfect for all Roald Dahl fans, planning crafts and activities for World Book Day.

We love dressing up a the Fantastic Mr Fox, as the kids can wear “normal clothes” (or “handsome clothes”, as the Fantastic Mr Fox does like to dress  smartly) and then just add the mask as a finish touch. Perfect for those dress up shy kids on World Book Day!! These masks were made from cereal boxes (everyone, has one, right?!) and would also be great for Mardi Gras or any other Fancy Dress occassion! Hope you like it too! If you are looking for some more Autumn Crafts for Kids, look no further! We also have a great set of No Sew Costumes for you to take a peak at!

You can make it from something as simple as an empty cereal box, and we’ve even created a printable stencil to help make your life easier. Let’s get started!

Print your stencils and trace them onto the plain side of your cereal box. Cut them out neatly.

Carefully make a hole on each side the round piece of your mask template and tape your elastic or string in place.

Look at the nose of your mask and fold the card along the dotted lines, as shown below.

To finish off the nose, cut the two black slits you can see on your template, and fold the card into place. It should now look like this:

Now it’s time to glue your mask into place. You need to glue down the folded sections of the nose that you made in Step 3, and attach the round piece of cardboard to the back of the piece that has the nose, ears and whiskers, as you can see below.

A hot glue gun is ideal for this job (adults only, obviously), but if you don’t have one, simply use a couple of clothes pegs to hold your mask together while it dries.

With your mask made, it’s now time to get painting! Start by painting some white across the bottom of your fox’s face. Then, mix red and yellow to get a vibrant, foxy orange! We suggest you deliberately didn’t blend the yellow and orange fully, to allow for the odd red and yellow brush strokes. We think this gives your fox mask a little texture!

Once all that’s dry, finish the mask by painting the end of Mr Fox’s nose black.

When World Book Day arrives, you can simply wear this mask with some smart clothes. If it’s more last-minute DIY ideas you’re after, we’ve got plenty of those too!

More World Book Day Costume ideas:

Or check out our comprehensive Autumn Crafts for Kids list here:

• Flatten your cardboard tube and trace or sketch the fox shape outline onto it.
• Cut your fox out.
• Pop the shape out to look like a round roll again, fold the head down and hey presto, It's now a little fox.
• Paint in a red-brown foxy colour with white patches over the eyes, tail and paws.