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21 February 2026
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The Vikings didn’t have a word for ‘music’, that we know of, but they liked to party just as much as we do. So next time you’re planning a big night out – maybe celebrating a successful raid or vanquishing a mighty serpent – why not throw some shapes in this super-stylish dancing Viking mask?
– Template (download here)
– Scissors
– Thin card
– Sharp pencil
– Modelling clay
– Marker pens
– Acrylic paints
– Paintbrushes
– Spare thin cardboard
– PVA glue
– Split pins
– Thick needle
– Thread
Cut out the template shapes and place them on some thin card. Draw around the template with a pencil or marker.
Carefully cut out the cardboard pieces.
Draw a rectangle where the mouth will go.
Use the sharp pencil and some modelling clay for safety to make a hole in the rectangle, then carefully cut it out with scissors.
Paint the beard with yellow splodges (technical term).
Mix up some orange-y coloured paint and cover some spare cardboard in more splodges. Make it as splodgy as you like, then leave it to dry completely.
When this is all dry, cut different sized circles and a moustache out of the spare cardboard. Make as many as you can.
Arrange the moustache and painted circles on the beard and stick down with PVA glue.
Paint the arms and leg pieces and leave them to dry.
Using marker pens, decorate the lower legs and forearms with straps and tattoos.
When they’re finished, the pieces will look like the last picture on the right, below.
Using your sharp pencil and some modelling clay to protect your fingers, make holes in the limb pieces as shown.
Connect the pieces using split pins.
Cut out a piece of cardboard shaped like the below.
Connect the legs and arms to the central piece with split pins.
With a needle and thread, connect piece A and piece B, then tie off and snip.
Do the same with pieces C and D.
With a third length of thread, connect the two sets of limbs. When you tug on this, the arms and legs should move up and down.
Stick the mechanism onto the back of the beard.
We’ve made a shield and a sword for our dancing Viking.
Attach some elastic, and then attach the mask to your face.
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Words/photos: Hi-lo piccolo
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