SpongeBob is a cheerful yellow sponge living in a pineapple.
SpongeBob Squarepants, one of Nickelodeon's most popular cartoon characters, lives at the bottom of the ocean in a place called "Bikini Bottom" and works as a fry cook in a local fast food restaurant. Paper crafts with a SpongeBob theme can be an enjoyable pastime for children. Templates or instructions online can help you make SpongeBob-themed models and create egg holders or birthday cards.
Character Models
The series' characters -- especially SpongeBob due to his cuboid shape -- can be the models for relatively easy paper crafts. You need pictures of the characters to use as a guide, construction paper corresponding to each character's skin and clothing colors (yellow, white and brown for SpongeBob, blue and brown for Squidward, pink and green for Patrick), a pair of scissors to cut out individual parts of the front, back and the side of each character and glue to stick the parts together. Alternatively, you can print templates from websites such as Homespun Magixx and glue the individual parts based on the instructions provided (see Resources).
Decoratives
You can also make SpongeBob-themed crafts out of paper, such as egg holders made from thin cardboard, paper lines of the series' characters, paper cup shakers (containing rice or beans) and pencil holders out of disposable cups. The secret behind these crafts is to first measure the dimensions of the cups or eggs or the distance between the spots from which you'll hang the paper line. Then, you can draw or print the SpongeBob images or cut out the paper line shape. Designing the picture on paper and gluing it on the cup or cardboard can help you avoid piercing your materials.
Houses
The three main characters each live in their own house: SpongeBob resides in a pineapple, Squidward lives in a gray head-like structure and Patrick lives under a round brown rock. To create both SpongeBob's and Patrick's houses, form rectangular strips that come to a point towards the top for the walls and glue them on a circular base. Squidward's house requires a cylinder that becomes thinner near the top, along with a parallelepiped nose over the door. Use pictures from the cartoon to paint and decorate the houses' exteriors. Templates from Homespun Magixx can come in handy if making houses from scratch is a difficult task (see Resources).
Birthday Cards
Use a 10-by-4-inch piece of light blue construction paper -- representing the sea -- and fold it in half. Decorate the card with undersea images. Don't forget to include "Happy Birthday" on your card. To complete the SpongeBob theme, include a distinctive funny dialogue from the series on the interior along with your personal message. The Free Printable Birthday Cards website includes such dialogues (see Resources).
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