Make your own Pokémon arts and crafts projects with this DIY guide

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Are you ready to get your hands sticky and prove yourself the best that ever was? Why not get creative and put together some of these pleasant Pokémon arts and crafts projects? Like most artistic endeavors, the journey is more important than the destination, so for each project I’ve put together easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and downloadable templates to print, cut out, fold together, and turn into recognizable critters.

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Metapod is a Pokémon well known for getting progressively harder throughout a battle, so you may be pleasantly surprised to find out this extravagant egg cartonMetapod project only gets easier to put together with each step.

Recommended supplies: An egg carton, a printer, green paint, tissue paper, glue (a glue gun if possible), and a pair of scissors or a craft knife

Step 1: Carefully cut out parts from an egg carton, following the outlines on the image below. Each piece has been made a different color to help illustrate where to cut. I used a craft knife, slowly making my way through the material by poking lots of holes through it.

When you’re done, you should have five pieces that look like this:

Step 2: Carefully paint the pieces of the egg carton using green paint. I used an acrylic paint; however, the material of the egg carton is quite porous and rough, so most paints should work just fine.

Step 3: Download and print out the template and cut out the parts of the Metapod craft along the solid black outline. There are two versions of the template available; one features a fully colored texture, and the other has