Making Animal Ears

This year's party theme is 3 Little Pigs and we are only two months away from party day! 

Today I made pig noses and pig ears for the kids. The tutorial below can be applied to any animal ears! 

First the pig noses. I used pink egg cartons, cut them up, rounded them out then drew the snouts on with a sharpie. I used a toothpick to poke holes in the side. I added holes on the bottom too because they were hard to breath with. I found silcone cord on sale and used that. Was pretty easy. I stored them in the container that will be used for the party.

My cat trying on the one I made too small.

Now! On to the ears!! Here's a step by step tutorial.

Materials:

- Foam sheet or felt

- headbands

- scissors

- pencil

- hot glue gun and glue

First draw whatever animal ear shape you desire, just the one half. Then fold the foam sheet in half and cut around it. Try your shape over your headband (I bought mine here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WQRS7R8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_6ANcxbKPSM9A2 )

If the shape looks good to you then go ahead and use that one as a template. I trace around it on the foam sheet and flip over each time to do both ears. 

Then I hand cut them out. Could this be done on the Cricut machine? Probably, but that would take too long to design, this takes minutes. I stack them in pairs to stay organized.

Next I fold one in half to make a crease

If they don't quite line up then use your scissors to trim

Next I added a line of hot glue along the crease then put this on the underside of the headband where I wanted it.

Next I add hot glue along one side of the ear then pinch the two sides together. I pinch with my fingers flat on top of the headband to make it centered. Don't worry about it being perfectly centered, ears aren't perfect and no kid will notice.

You can trim again if desired (I don't spend time making them perfect)

Then repeat on the other side! 

Repeat for as many ears as you want to make!

Since I had all the materials out already, I worked on our halloween ears too. I made an adult template to have slightly larger ears.

Here's the finished product! The big bad wolf ears are made of felt. I found the hat at Joann's. 

Enjoy! Feel free to comment and share your animal ears! Would love to see what you come up with!