1. Creative Inventions and Robotics
Hard Head Critters
Creative Inventions and Robotics
Welcome to the Build-It-Yourself Laboratory.
I’m John, chief inventor at Build-It-Yourself
You may want to add some thick-skulled rock heads or nut heads to your project.
Nut Head

2. Making Critters Many moons into the future,
lived a crew of colorful, creative critters.

3. Making Critters
These advanced humanoids evolved from the piles of garbage left by a world full of uncivilized, nat-brained humans.

4. Making Critters
Build-It-Yourself crew members are on a mission to morph premium quality junk into a new generation of super hero-oids.

5. You’ll need these tools:
Making Critters
You’ll need these tools:
Scissors
Ruler
Black Sharpie Pen
Red, Green, Blue pencils
Scotch Tape
Glue Gun

6. And you’ll need some premium quality junk:
Making Critters
And you’ll need some premium quality junk:
Pipe Cleaners
2”x4” sheets of paper
Cloth
Beads
Nuts
Rocks
Corks
Feathers
Yarn
Foamies

7. Making Critters
You will be able to experiment with many creative possibilities if you make all the parts for your critter before you glue or tape them together.

8. Who wouldn’t warm up to a nut head?
Big Soulful Eyes
Exaggerating (especially eyes and hands) can help your critter have soul!
Who wouldn’t warm up to a nut head?

9. Big Soulful Eyes
Draw a set of BIG eyes from a piece of white paper or foam rubber.
Add a touch of color. ½”
Goofy
Stupid
Surprised

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Big Soulful Eyes ½”
Goofy
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Big Soulful Eyes ½”
Stupid
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12. Big Soulful Eyes
Much of the soul of your critter is in the eyes. Make them carefully!
4. Can you can see them from a distance? ½”
Mean
Happy
Cute

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Big Soulful Eyes ½”
Mean
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Big Soulful Eyes ½”
Happy
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Big Soulful Eyes ½”
Cute
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16. Do a Due Cut a piece 6” long.
Wind 10 loops of yarn around your fingers.
3. Tie the string in the center.

17. Do a Due
Cut the 2 loops
Glue or tape it onto your head and give your critter a hair cut.

18. Do a Due Cut hair out of two strips of paper.
You generally get a more interesting result if you use 2 slightly different colors.

19. Feathers, pipe cleaners or wire can also be used for hair.
Do a Due
Feathers, pipe cleaners or wire can also be used for hair.

20. Necks Wrap a pipe cleaner around a pencil.
Curl the end so you have a large area to tape or glue the neck to the head.
3. This neck enables you to mount your head on any small shaft like a pencil.
4. Also this neck enables your head to move.

21. Arms and legs for a large critter
Critter Body
Arms and legs for a large critter
Don’t be shy about exaggerating the hands and feet.
If you glue big hands and feet onto the ends of a long pipe cleaner, you will have lots of flexibility to wrap the arms and legs around your critter and make them move.