Man Eating Plants

This is such a fun project 

{my 6 year old niece even helped out}

Skill level: Easy...

...if you can use a glue gun 

{I handled the hot glue of course}

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Inspiration from:  Bitter Betty Blogs

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Supplies: Styrofoam Balls, Vampire Teeth, 

Paint, Artificial Flowers Hot Glue and a knife.

Step 1:  Using a serrated knife, cut the 

Styrofoam ball in half (keeping it slightly attached)

 Step 2: Paint the outside skin of your man eating 

  plant (we stuck with lime green, purple and black).  

Paint the inside of the mouth red.

  

Step 3: Hot glue the vampire teeth inside of the painted 

Styrofoam ball.

 Step 4: Hot glue the backside of the  painted 

Styrofoam ball to the front of an artificial 

flower (the bigger the petals the better)

Extras:  

• Coordinate the paint colors with the color of flower you will be using.  Example, The lime green painted Styrofoam really popped off of the red or brown flowers.  The black painted Styrofoam complimented the white flowers.
• Paint the tips of the flowers with contrasting paint color to add more visual interest.
• Outline the vampire teeth with glow-in-the-dark paint.

Under a black-light

We created an extra large man-eating plant by using 2 pairs of vampire teeth and a large Styrofoam ball - we didn't find a flower large enough to handle this beast.  

To be continued...