Oscar the Grouch

Materials: 

• One Sesame Street teddy fleece jacket
• One pair of green baby pants
• Corrugated cardboard roll
• Silver duct tape
• Yellow felt
• White felt
• Small scraps of black and white felt or paper for the flies
• Black sharpie marker
• Brown marker
• Orange marker
• Red marker
• Cardboard
• Sturdy wire
• Elastic band
  
• Bonus: one downloadable Oscar the Grouch paper mask

Tools:

• Hot glue gun & sticks
• Scissors

Instructions: 

For the trash can:

• Cut and glue 2-3 layers of corrugated cardboard for the body of the trash can to make a sturdy can.
• When rolled into a cylinder, the outside of the can should show the smooth cardboard side, and it should measure about 10-11” wide, and about 11-12” tall.
• Cut and glue a circle of cardboard to the bottom of the trash can. 
• Using sturdy wire, make 2 circles that are the same size as the inside of the can.
• Wrap the circles with duct tape. 
• Hot glue one ring near the bottom of the inside of the can and the second near the top of the can to create a sturdy trash can.
• Cover the trash can with vertical strips of silver duct tape, and a horizontal strip for the top and bottom edges of the can.
• Use a black marker to draw the trash can line details onto the can.
• Apply silver duct tape along the top inside edge of the can so the inside trash can cardboard isn’t easily visible.  
• Make a square cardboard sign that reads “I <3 trash” using black and red markers.
• Make Slimey the worm using yellow felt and an orange marker for the stripes. Glue these pieces to the front of the trash can. 
• Cut a few pieces of white felt and glue them to look like crumpled paper.
• Make a banana peel using yellow felt and a brown marker.
• Glue these pieces of trash along the edges of the trash can. 

For the lid: 

• Make a circle shaped lid from cardboard and cover it with silver duct tape. 
• Make a couple flies using black and white felt and glue them sticking up from the lid on sturdy wire.
• Glue an elastic band to the center underside of the lid to hold the lid over the baby’s head. 

For the Oscar the Grouch printable mask: