Grizzly Bear Mask
or Wall Sculpture Pattern
For Paper Mache
$12
Take a walk on the wild side…
Wear your hand-crafted grizzly bear mask at your next dress-up party, or use the pattern to make a permanent work of art for your wall.
Either way, no sculpting experience is required – the pattern creates all the realistic shapes for you.
Bring your grizzly bear to life with your own creative touches and a bit of paper and paint, and then proudly say that you made it yourself!
How to make your Grizzly Bear mask:
Print the pattern, glue it to cereal box cardboard and cut out the pieces.
Tape the pattern pieces together, following the instructions included with the pattern.
Cover the pattern with paper strips and paste, or paper mache clay – or use both, like I did.
Bring your jaguar to life with acrylic paint.
Watch the videos below to see how to tape the pattern pieces together, how you can add sculpted fur if you want to, and how to paint your grizzly bear.
Finished size: About 9.75 inches (24.8 cm) high, 9.7 inches (24.6 cm) wide and 12 inches (30.7 cm) deep. The pattern is designed to fit an adult head, but if it’s too large or small, the instructions show you how to make it fit perfectly.
My downloadable PDF Patterns come with full instructions.
There’s no waiting for your pattern to arrive, and no shipping costs, so you can start on your project right away.
Note: If you’ll be saving your pattern to and iPhone or iPad, those devices like to hide your downloaded files. You can scroll down this page to see how to find them.
And remember – if you have any problems downloading your files or putting your pattern together, just let me know. I’m always happy to help. 🙂
$12
Watch these videos to see how to make your grizzly bear mask or wall sculpture:
Taping the Pieces Together:
Creating “Fur” with paper mache clay:
Painting the grizzly bear:
What you’ll need to make your Grizzly Bear:
- Access to a printer
- Copy paper or full-sheet labels
- Glue stick if using copy paper for pattern
- Cardboard from 4 standard-sized cereal boxes and a scrap of corrugated cardboard if your bear will be a wall sculpture.
- Knife and sharp scissors for cutting cardboard
- Tape, both clear plastic tape and masking tape
- 1” Styrofoam ball, cut in half, for the wall sculpture. Not needed for the mask.
- A very small piece of aluminum foil
- Glue gun
- Paper strips and paste or paper mache clay. Find recipes in the “recipes” tab at the top of the site
- Acrylic gesso or primer
- Acrylic paint
$12
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Click here to see my Black Bear wall sculpture pattern.
Jonni, I am just in awe of all your creations! I am making a couple headdress style masks for a youth production of the jungle book and just finished the jaguar (not painted yet, but it will be for the panther, Bagheera). I’m wondering if you have seen anyone convert the grizzly bear mask into a headdress style mask? I am about to try it using the cap base from the jaguar. I’m hoping it will end up sitting on top nicely, but would love any pointers if anyone else has already tried this! Thanks for sharing your talent with us 🙂
Hi Laurel. That sounds like a great idea, but you may be the first one to try it. If you tape the bear’s cap pieces to the back of his head, it might be possible to tape the bottom edges of the bear’s cap to the top of the jaguar’s cap. If it doesn’t look like that will work, you might want to try using the cap portion of the free blank mask form, instead. You might need to fiddle around a little get it to work. If you try it, we’d love to see how it turns out. 🙂
Well I am happy to report that it was a huge success! I converted both the Grizzly Bear and the Orangutan into headdress style masks using the cap portion of the jaguar pattern. Each of them took a small bit of puzzling, but when I used the back piece of the jaguar, to match the curve of the top of the jaguar cap, and carefully taped the bottom edges of the bear and orangutan to the cap, then I really only needed to cut a small wedge shaped piece on either side to fill the gap. Other than that it all lined up beautifully. The kids looked great and the masks really added a lot to their costumes. Thanks again!!
That’s great! I’m so glad you found a way to make it work. 🙂
Wonderful grizzly! The fur texture and painting turned out really well. The Grizzly Bear is the state animal of California, although sadly there are none left now. In fourth grade students are taught the history of the state and I think this would be such a fun project for them to do.
That would be a fun project for the kids. It’s so sad that the bears are gone, though.
Wonderful! Love it! You did a great job painting too. Reminds me of BooBoo on Yogi Bear , LoL Can’t wait to try to make one
I can’t wait to see how your bear turns out. 🙂
He turned out really nice! I didn’t think you could improve on the paint job, but your final step really did improve the look of it. While I have never seen a real grizzly, yours is so realistic! Wonderful job on the pattern as well. I’m sure it will be a popular one!
Thanks, Eileen. I do like this one – it has a ‘vintage’ look, if that makes any sense. 🙂