How to Make Animal Headdresses

To make the speckled pom poms for the antenna, take the ends of the black and yellow wool together and wrap them around your hand about 80 times. Cut through the ends of the wool and pull the bundle off your hand. Tie another piece of wool tightly around the centre to secure.

Draw around one of the felt snouts onto card and cut this out a little smaller than the felt arch. Glue onto one of the felt pieces.

For the teeth, cut two 1in wide strips from the width of a piece of white felt. Cut triangles into the strips. Glue around the edge of the other felt snout so that only the triangles are visible from the other side.

Glue the two snout pieces together, with the teeth and cardboard on the inside. Fold the teeth down so they aren't lying flat - you can add a dab of glue to each one if they don't stay. Leave to dry, then bend the snout so that it matches the curve of the headband.

Cover the headband in green felt - cut the felt into segments that are wide enough to wrap around the band with a little overlap. Glue in place and trim any excess.

Glue the ears onto the front of the mane.

For the lion's mane, place the headband on top of the brown felt and use a pencil to draw a wide a circle, filling the felt, roughly following the curve of the headband. Draw another line around the inside of the band, then another about an inch lower than this one. Cut this out and repeat to create two.

Draw a lion ear shape onto beige felt, about 5cm wide. Cut out and use as a template to cut three more. Cut two inner ear shapes from pink felt that are a little smaller. Glue the ears together in pairs, then glue the pink inner ears on top.

Fold the green felt in half widthways. Draw a large arch on one side (measuring about 13cm x 16cm). Cut this out to create two snout pieces.

Glue the snout to the top of the headband.

Cut two circles from black felt for the eyes, about 2cm wide. Then cut two 1cm wide black circles for the nostrils. Glue the larger felt circles onto the cotton balls and the small ones onto two green pom poms.

Cut two strips of green felt measuring about 5 x 15cm. Add glue to half the calico ball, on the opposite side to the pupil. Wrap the felt around the ball. Press the felt onto the glue, don't worry about the folds for now. Hold in place with an elastic band whilst the glue dries if necessary. Once dry, trim the excess folds of felt.

Glue the eyes on top of the headband and the nostril pom poms onto the end of the snout.