Craft for kids to unleash their imagination!

If you have children in your house, then you must be familiar with Dav Pilkey and his Captain Underpants and Dog Man series. The series are adored by children (and some parents) for their child-like illustrations and silly humor.

Who is Dog Man?

Dog Man is a spin-off from the series Captain Underpants. In the series, the main characters, two little boys George and Harold are avid comic book artist and use their art to faces their daily challenges at school. Dog Man is one of their creations materialized in an actual book. In the series Dog Man, a police officer and his dog get into an explosion in which they are both severly injured. In a effort to save them, doctors come up with the clever idea to combine the head of the dog and the body of the police officier to save them. And Dog Man is created! Now he must protect the city from all the villains!

The Art of Dog Man

What my kids love the most about the books is how funny it is. Although some parent might dislike the potty humor and the intentional misspelled vocabulary, it is still approach story telling in a creative manner. For example, some of the situations and characters on the book are real life creations made of clay of paper. This is how the Munchy Bag came to existence. 

Who is Munchy?

In the 9th Volume of Dog Man called Grime and Punishments, a paper Monster comes to life when it is sprayed with the Spray of Life by the former villain's dad, Crud. In the actual book, we can see the monsters made of paper in a card board model of the city which is pretty cool. I like that aspect of the book so much because the author Dav Pilkey invites the readers to picture the story in different spaces and dimensions.

How to make Munchy

At the end of the book there are specific directions on how to make Munchy, the monster bag.

Difficulty: Easy

Tools

This craft requires the help of an adult for the use of scissors and the hot glue gun.

Directions

Cut along the eyes, tongue, arms and legs of the Munchy

Using a glue stick, glue the arms and legs on the pink construction paper and the tongue on the red construction paper. Cut again along the lines.

With the help of a sharpie, trace the edge of the arms, legs and tongue and the construction paper side.

With the glue stick, glue the the eyes on the bottom part of the paper bag.

With the hot glue gun, glue the tongue where the bottom part of the paper bag folds.

With the hot glue gun, glue the arms in the side of the paper bag and the feet at the bottom.

Color, draw and add stickers to personalize your Munchy.

Your Munchy is done! We followed the story and sprayed our Munchy to bring him to life! (We just used a hair spray so it’s not toxic for the children). How fun to play with Munchy!

You can find all the details on my Pinterest below!