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The Gruffalo
TO MAKE THE EARS AND HORNS HAIRBAND

YOU WILL NEED

✓ Brown card
✓ Light blue card
✓ Pink card
✓ Black marker pen
✓ Scissors
✓ Double-sided tape
✓ Hairband (you can get
cheap plastic ones from
most supermarkets) 1. Print out the ears
✓ Downloadable ears and and horns template.
horns templates Cut out the pieces.

2. Draw round the

outer ears on to brown
card, inner ears on to
pink card and horns
on to light blue card.
Cut them all out.

ints on white
Use felt tip pens or pa
coloured card.
card if you don’t have
adventurous try
If you want to be more
e ears and horns!
using flexi foam for th
 3. Use a black pen to outline all
the pieces. Add a bit of hair in
the pink ears and the horns for
extra drama!

4. Wrap the brown ears around

either side of a hairband. Use
double-sided tape to fix them
in place. Then attach the pink
inner ears to the brown ears
with double-sided tape.

5. Attach the horns to

the hairband using

OUTFIT
double-sided tape.

TIPS
THE GRUFFALO’S CLOTHES
• Wear a dark-coloured
long-sleeved top and trousers
Remember your copy of The Gruffalo or or leggings and wrap a scarf or
The Gruffalo’s Child to read on the day! snood around you.
• Make some paws with som
e
old gloves and glue on paper
fingernails.
 THE GRUFFALO FACE-PAINTING
YOU WILL NEED
✓ Face-paints: brown,
orange, white, pink, green
✓ Sponge
✓ Thin paintbrush
✓ Hairband (to keep hair
off the face)

1. Apply b
row
face with a n face-paint to the
sponge. Le
big circles av
around the e some
eyes.

se a b ru sh to paint orange
2. U
the eyes.
circles around

3. Add a pink nose using a light

pink face-paint. Then add some
green at the tip for The Gruffalo’s
wart! Lastly, with a paintbrush, draw
on some white teeth. Grrrrrrrr!

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The Gruffalo © Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 1999, Macmillan Children’s Books
THE GRUFFALO
Ears and Horns Template
Cut
Fold

pink ears
horns
(you will need to
print two copies)

brown
ears

Crafts & Costumes Editor: Natalie Abadzis, Art Direction & Design: Nikki Dupin, Photography: Laura Ashman, MakeUp: Sarah Gilbert