Use a sturdy bottle for the skeleton for your sculpture, like a milk jug or a large soda bottle. Organize smaller bottles -- such as water bottles, vitamin bottles and juice containers -- next to or on top of each other. These bottles should all be plastic, making it easier to cut them and glue them together. To create towers, place smaller bottles on the base in a way that is pleasing to your child. Tape and glue these pieces together using a glue gun. An adult should do this part as glue guns can get exceedingly hot. The sculpture base should dry and cool in seconds.
Have your child choose colors of tissue paper and cover the sculpture. Neatly cut up the tissue paper, making sure each piece overlaps another piece so that none of the bottle is showing. Use one color and allow the additions to provide the detail work, or make a pattern with the paper, striping, patching, or layering it on for a three-dimensional effect.
Decorate your sculpture using the glue stick to attach bits of felt and other fabrics to the tissue paper. Add fake jewels and buttons; they're light and the glue will hold them to the paper with ease. Squirt paint directly on the sculpture from the bottles and then fan out a design using a paint brush, or make small pools of paint on construction paper in which to dip the brushes. Attach pieces of colored construction paper and lace. Allow the sculpture to dry for at least a few hours.