DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Medusa Toilet
Paper Roll Craft
This is a fun and simple color, cut and paste paper craft that
uses a toilet paper roll as a base to give it a three dimensional
effect.
Medusa was once a beautiful woman who bragged that she was even
lovelier than Athena. To punish
her for her vanity, Athena turned her into an ugly gorgon with hair
of snakes. Anyone who looked at Medusa would instantly turn
to stone.
Medusa was beheaded by the Greek hero
Perseus, with the help of many gifts from the nymphs, when he
was trying to save his mother Danae from having to marry the cruel
King Polydectes. Perseus used Medusa's severed head to turn
King Polydectes to stone. (the generic
mermaid,
king and
queen crafts in the can be used to represent
a nymph, Polydectes and Danae if you would like all the characters).
After Medusa was beheaded, the winged horse Pegasus was born
magically from the earth where her blood had touched it.
Also see:
The Story
of Medusa and Athena
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