1Prepare a paper plate and a bowl.

Prepare a large paper plate for the bear's head and a small paper bowl for the snout.

2Paint the bowl.

Think about the color of your bear's snout. Polar bears and pandas have white snouts so you need not paint your paper bowl.

Brown and black bears have colored snouts. Paint the outside of your paper bowl with light brown tempera or poster paint.

3Make a pair of ears.

Cut out a pair of round ears from cardstock or construction paper. Choose a color that corresponds to the inside of the bear's ears. For the polar bear, I chose a pair of pink ears.

For my other bears, I cut out a pair of black circles for the panda bear and brown ones for both the black bear and brown bear.

4Glue the ears.

Glue the ears on the top edge of the paper plate.

5Flip the paper plate over.

Flip the paper plate over so that the plate's bottom side is facing up and the ears are glued at the back.

6Make the panda's eye patches.

If you're making a panda, create a pair of eye patches by cutting out two oval shapes from black construction paper. Glue the pair of oval shapes on the top half of the plate.

7Glue the paper bowl.

Glue the paper bowl close to the plate's bottom edge to create the bear's snout.

For the panda bear, it's okay for the bowl to partially cover the lower part of the black eye patches.

8Cover the entire face with fuzz.

Polar bear - glue cotton on the entire paper plate except on the snout. Glue some cotton along the edges of the ears as well.

Panda bear - glue cotton onto the entire paper plate, except on the snout, ears, and eye patches.

Brown bear and Black bear - use paper towels instead of cotton. It absorbs paint better than cotton, thereby making it easy to create colored "fur".

First, tear paper towels into fairly large pieces, then glue them onto the entire paper plate except on the snout. Next, take smaller pieces and scrunch them up. Glue them around the edges of the ears.

9Paint the brown or black bear.

To make a brown or black bear, paint the tissue with watered down brown or black tempera or poster paint.

After you have painted the entire head, let the paint dry. This bear won't be as fuzzy as the cotton-faced polar bear and panda, but it will have an interesting textured fur.