{"id":3609,"date":"2014-04-23T02:29:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T02:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2015-05-26T00:25:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T00:25:27","slug":"sushi-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=3609","title":{"rendered":"Sushi Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiddo loves sushi (especially those yummy crunchy ebi tempura rolls&#8230;kiddo misses those <a href=\"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?p=1706\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>sushi she made a while back<\/strong><\/a>). Kiddo loves monsters too. Bigbrownmonster reckons that perhaps her dream date will be a walking talking ebi tempura roll monster. Well until that day when one turns up at their door, BBM is just glad to help her make her own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you need are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>colour paper (yellow\/orange, red, black)<\/li>\n<li>toilet paper roll<\/li>\n<li>tissue paper<\/li>\n<li>ice cream stick<\/li>\n<li>crayons and markers<\/li>\n<li>scissors<\/li>\n<li>glue<\/li>\n<li>sticky tape<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut up a toilet paper roll to reduce its diameter if necessary. You need a &#8216;slimmer&#8217; look for it to be a sushi roll. \ud83d\ude42 Remember to secure it up with sticky tape.<\/li>\n<li>Cut up a piece of black paper (big enough to wrap around the toilet roll), crush\/crumple it and rub green crayon over 1 side so that it resembles nori.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7238\/13966388431_8fb3da1da2_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ebi Roll Monster\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To make your ebi, simply roll up a piece of yellow\/orange paper, taper it on one end and attach a piece of fan-shaped red paper as its tail. Kiddo can then colour \/ add some details onto the ebi.<\/li>\n<li>Attach an ice cream stick at the other end of the ebi (on its inside). This will serve as a handle to the monster puppet. Secure the stick with sticky tape.<\/li>\n<li>Stuff the hollow ebi with tissue paper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7361\/13946473376_9cda1828ea_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ebi Roll Monster\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Next, apply glue on the underside of the nori and wrap up the toilet roll with it. Since it is longer than the roll, fold the sides inwards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5327\/13966400612_e8cf129034_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ebi Roll Monster\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Place ebi in the roll and stuff tissue between the two. Make sure that the roll is well stuff so that the ebi does not slip off during play.<\/li>\n<li>Dab on glue on the tissue on both ends of the roll. This should help hold the tissue and ebi in place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5290\/13974056652_5d8fffc110_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sushi Monster\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To finish it off, let kiddo decorate the Sushi Monster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5552\/13946486286_5547051213_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ebi Roll Monster\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&gt; <a title=\"DIY Toys\" href=\"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/?page_id=9\">Back to DIY Toys<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiddo loves sushi (especially those yummy crunchy ebi tempura rolls&#8230;kiddo misses those sushi she made a while back). Kiddo loves monsters too. Bigbrownmonster reckons that perhaps her dream date will be a walking talking ebi tempura roll monster. Well until that day when one turns up at their door, BBM is just glad to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigbrownmonster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}