Giraffe

Materials:

• One kids outfit in yellow
• One baby outfit in yellow
• Yellow felt
• Brown felt
• Black felt
• White felt
• Yellow Craft foam
• Firm headband
• Safety pins

Tools:

• Hot glue gun and sticks
• Scissors
• Double sided fabric tape
  

Instructions:

For the eyes: 

• Cut two circles from white felt and two smaller circles from black felt. 
• Hot glue the black circle to the white ones. 
• Cut one circle from yellow felt and cut it in half for the eyelids. Hot glue one eyelid to each eye.
• Use double sided fabric tape to attach the eyes to the hoodie.

For the head piece: 

• Hot glue yellow felt to cover the headband. 

For the ossicones:

• Cut a piece of craft foam that is about 8 inches long.
• Roll it into a tight log and hot glue it closed.
• Cut the roll into two 4 inch pieces.
• Cut 2 small pieces of brown felt.
• Cut slits along one long side of each piece and them hot glue them around the top of the foam rolls.

For the ears:

• Cut two sets of ears from yellow felt (see our ear tutorial here)
• Hot glue each set together and pinch the bottom edge and glue together to give the ears some shape. 

• Hot glue the ears and ossicones to the headband.

For the belly:

• Cut an oval from white felt.
• Cut in half and use double sided fabric tape to secure each half to one side of the zipper on the hoodie or footie.

For the tail: 

• Cut a skinny rectangle of yellow felt, fold it in half and hot glue together along one short edge and the long edge. 
• Turn the tail inside out so that the seam is on the inside. 
• Cut a small rectangle of brown felt. Cut slits along one long side and hot glue it around the short end of the tail.
• Hot glue the open end closed and use safety pins to attach the tail to the pants.