| The Grinch's Too-Small Heart | |
Materials Needed:
Instructions:
Cut 2 pieces of construction paper into identical frames by cutting out the center and leaving a 1 inch border (figure 1).
Cut 2 pieces of wax paper, each one about 1/4 of an inch smaller than your construction paper frames. Make sure your pieces of wax paper are larger than the opening in your frame pieces.
Use the heart pattern provided below, if desired, and cut out a small heart out of red construction paper. Place the heart centered on one of your pieces of wax paper (figure 2).
Put your wax paper and heart on an ironing board with a towel or newspaper underneath it. Lay the other piece of wax paper on top of the heart; try to line up the edges of both wax paper pieces as much as possible. Put a few paper towels over the top of the wax paper. Use an iron on top of the paper towels or newspapers to press the 2 pieces of wax paper together, trappng the heart in place. (Irons vary so experiment with the setting that is best for you - I use a medium setting with no steam).
Finally, you can glue your frame pieces around the wax paper to make it look like the x-ray of Grinch's heart (figure 3).
(If you want, you can also make the Grinch's heart after it grew by using a much larger heart shape.)
