My children will go to "Surva" today. It's a traditional Bulgarian holiday where people wear scary masks ("kuker" masks) to frighten evil spirits. My daughters had to make two of them. I drew the image being supervised by the younger one and used it to cut the masks from cardboard. On the second photo you can see my oldest daughter with the mask we made. I cute it from the a cardboard pizza box. Then glued the horns to the face, because otherwise the mask would be too small. We wanted to put wool on the face as in most of the traditional kuker masks but we didn't have any. And, preparing things at the last time, as usual, we could not get wool. I decided to use old winter leggings which had holes on the knees. I cut them and glued them to the face and we had the needed texture. We cut the white fabric from an old white pillowcase and glued them to the horns and teeth. My daughter decided to put the red yarn around the horns. The red felt tip pen all over it was her original idea. “To be really scary, there should be blood all over it” she said. They will be great at frightening evil spirits. :)




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