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Good Turn Mouse Crafts
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Poem:
This saucy creature is a mouse
Most mothers won't let one in the house
See, this one it has quite a tail,
Each Girl Scout made one without fail.
Take it home and help all week,
and for good turns you must seek
for every good turn that you do
tie a knot in the yarn...make quite a few.
Remember why each knot you tied
and how much to help you really tried
and then next week, please take your turn
to tell us all, so we can learn...
just what you did to help at home
a ready helper you have grown!
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FELT MOUSE 1 |
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heart shape that will be the body (test on paper first). Cut a 12" piece of yarn for the tail and
lay it along the middle of the heart, hanging out the curved end. Fold the
felt heart in half and sew (or glue) most of the way around. Stuff the mouse with
filling and finish sewing (or gluing). The pointed end is the nose. Glue or sew on two
felt ears (1/2 circles) and eyes. |
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FELT MOUSE 2 |
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Scale 1 square = 1 inch |
Cut the pattern pieces out of a piece
of felt (gray or brown is good). Glue a 12" long yarn "tail" down the middle
of the belly piece (pointy end is the head.) Sew the two sides together at
the top (curved side). Sew the top piece (of the 2 sides) to the belly piece
all around the edge except 1". Fill the mouse and finish sewing. Leave the
yarn tail hanging out. Add felt ears, yarn whiskers and wiggly eyes. You
can also glue little magnets on the back and it can live on the
refrigerator.
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CHILD'S SOCK MOUSE |
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MATERIALS
• Scissors
• Child's sock
• Felt scraps
• Plastic from milk jug
• Yarn
• Darning needle
• Black embroidery floss
• Stuffing |
STEP 1:
Using scissors, cut off the toe section of the child's sock at the heel, as
shown. Also, cut two mouse ear shapes from the felt scraps, and cut a
teardrop shape from the plastic stock |
STEP 2:
Insert the plastic teardrop into the sock (it serves to hold the mouse's
shape), and fill the sock with the stuffing. Turn back the sock's edge and,
with the yarn (14") and darning needle, lay a running stitch around the
opening, as shown. Draw the yarn tight to close the opening. |
STEP 3:
Tie off the yarn, leaving the extra for the tail. Sew on the felt ears, and
create embroidery floss whiskers. |
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