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Monster Themed Name Necklace Craft for Preschoolers

Monster Themed Name Craft for Preschoolers

Create a monster themed name necklace with your child for Halloween this year using a few items from around the house. A playful way to learn to spell your name and the letters of the alphabet for your child.

Here’s how to make.  

Monster Alphabet Activity for Preschoolers

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For the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids theme we’re featuring monsters.  To go along with our monster theme we’re making monster necklaces packed full of creativity and fine motor skills development.

Do you have a favorite monster storybook?  Here’s a few of my favorite Monster books for Preschoolers. One popular one is Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley.


Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley

Caldecott Award-winning author-artist Ed Emberley has created this bold book for children to chase away their nighttime fears. As you read and turn the pages of this die-cut book, you watch the Big Green Monster grow. Then as you continue your child turns the remaining pages and watch him disappear!

Are you ready to see how to make the monster themed craft?

Monster Themed Name Activity for Preschoolers for Halloween

Monster Themed Name Necklace Craft

Materials for Monster Themed Name Necklace

  • recycled cardboard tubes
  • pipe cleaners 
  • googly eyes
  • glue
  • scissors
  • foam letter stickers
  • string (optional)
  • pom poms (optional)
Supplies for Monster Themed Necklace Craft

All the craft supplies we used came in one packet called the Ultimate Fuzzy Kit  that we received from Horizon Group USA.  We plan to create additional monster themed crafts with too all Halloween season!

Monster Beads Craft with Pipe Cleaners

Directions for Monster Themed Name Necklace

1. Using scissors, cue the recycled cardboard tubes into 1 inch sections to act as beads for the necklace.

2. Using the pipe cleaners have your child wrap the pipe cleaner around each of the pieces of round tubes to create fuzzy monsters.

Making Beads for Monster Themed Necklace for Preschoolers

3. Ask your child to decorate each cardboard tube into a monster using pipe cleaners and googly eyes. The sillier the better. You can choose to stand up your eyes on pipe cleaners OR simply attach them to the pipe cleaner bead itself for more durability.

4. Add an alphabet foam sticker on each cut tube for the letters in your child’s name. If you want to, you can do all the letters in the alphabet.  You would need 8 cardboard tubes for 26 letters.

Monster Themed Name Craft for Preschoolers with Pipe cleaners

5. You can now thread each of the monster letters onto string to create a necklace or simply display standing up.

Share a photo with us how your child creates their Monster Craft in our VBC Facebook group!  Join now!

You can visit more Monster Themed Activities at The Educators’ Spin On It or you can take a look below and be inspired by the 20+ Monster Themed Activities from our Virtual Book Club for Kids CoHosts!

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Join our Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook Group 

YOU’RE INVITED. We’re inviting you to join along and share your own monster themed ideas with your child or students using the featured story  Go Away, Big Green Monster! or one of the other  Monster Books.

Join the Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook Group

You can share on our facebook page or join our VBC Facebook Group and share there with 10,000+ members!

Monster Week for VBC Activities for Preschoolers

Monster Crafts & Activities for Preschoolers

Monster Themed Necklace Craft â€“ The Educators Spin On It (HERE)

Mini Eraser Monster Counting Printables â€“ Artsy Momma

Go Away Big Green Monster Slime â€“ Still Playing School

Easy Finger Painted Monsters â€“ Toddler Approved

Playdough Monster ~ Invitation to Play â€“ My Bored Toddler

Monster Rice Krispy Cakes – Rainy Day Mum

Big Green Monster Healthy Snack Ideas â€“ J Daniel 4’s Mom

Colorful Monster Printable Worksheet â€“ The Moments at Home

Puffy Paint Monster Craft â€“ To Be A Kid Again

Monster Leaf Puppet Craft â€“ Messy Little Monster

Feed the Monster Game â€“ Mama Smiles

Monster Art â€“ CrArty Kids

Magnetic Shape Monster â€“ Teach Beside Me

Monster Name Craft for Preschoolers inspired by Go Away Big Green Monster

Monster Themed Activities at The Educators’ Spin On It

  • Monster Chalk Game with ABC’s 
  • Monster Lab Science 
  • Monster Math Games 
Monster Mash ABC activity for kids

Join us next week with our a new theme of PUMPKINS! Did you miss last week about Farm?

For more Monster Activities…. try these!!!

20 Monster Activities for Kids

Click here to see which books we’re reading together with you and your preschooler for the Virtual Book Club for Kids this Fall!  

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Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Janet says

    March 12, 2018 at 6:09 am

    They look so cute Kim. I’m going to try making these in the weekends, I’m sure my kids will love them a lot!

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