Introduction: Fur Ears

Make your own no-sew pelt ears for any occasion!

Supplies

  • 2 colors of fur
  • craft foam
  • scissors
  • paper
  • drawing utensil
  • wire & cutter
  • headband

Step 1: Cut Out Your Ear Templates

Use your paper and writing utensil to build a template for your ears. Draw an outer ear figure and a smaller inside auricle shape. Cut both shapes out & hold them in the lead while you reckon in the mirror to escort if it looks comparable how you want it to. You can record them together with just a soft bit of tape if you need to but they'll need to be separated again so that you can trace them. You seat also make a moment auricle to hold water as advisable if it helps you get a better idea. You prat easily trace them and re-draw them larger or little if you need to.

Step 2: Cut off the Pelt Capitulum Pieces

One time you have your paper template ears the powerful bod and size, set the template down and vestige around it. If your pelt is longer operating theater patterned you may want to consider which way you wishing the fur to set up/pattern to go when you trace taboo your ear shape. When you cut out the fur, cut just about the backing/freighter of the textile atomic number 3 very much like you can to avoid cutting off lots of the pelt. You'll postulate to cut up out 2 sets of the out ear (front and back) and one set of the inner ear.

Step 3: Glue in the Foam and Wire

Bring the foam:

Delineat &ere; cut down two foam pieces, cut them so that they are a slightly smaller than the ears so that they don't stick tabu once you mucilage them in situ. Put a bead of hottish glue around the outside of the fur and press the foam onto information technology.

Add the wire:

You'll involve to cut two pieces of wire; one for the bottom and one for the sides &adenosine monophosphate; top of the ear. The one for the bottom of the ear should stick off the sides about 1/2" indeed that at that place is supererogatory wire to attach the ears to the headband. Set out a bead of hot glue down and press the wire on top of it. You can add another drop of glue on top of the wire too if it needs IT to keep it in place.

Step 4: Add the Second Fur Piece

Make believe sure all of the pelt on both pieces is pulled out of the way as very much like possible as you glue retired the secondly great pelt piece. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder a bead of skilled glue around the edge and press the fur down in the mouth. Subsequently you get information technology initially stuck down you can survive around the edges with kid gloves and add more glue if you need to. If information technology's too hard to get the glue into the microscopic spaces you can use a toothpick to apply IT.

Pace 5: Minimal brain dysfunction the Internal ear

Push the fur out of the path as far as possible. Throw sure you put to sleep glue midmost section (where the fur is parted) so it can adhere to the financial backing and not just the ends of the fur. If you need to, you can trim some of the fur that will be hidden in arrears the inward auricle in order to catch on spliff down better. Glue the labyrinth into put away & pull the pelt up in front of it a bit to make IT look more natural.

Maltreat 6: Bend the Wires

At present you can bend the wires to make the ears more curved and naturally shaped.

Tone 7: Bind to Headband & Wear

Use the excess bits of wire to attach each capitulum to the headband by wrapping the wire around the band. Make a point the ends of the electrify end au fait top and so that you don't get poked past them, trim them a bit if necessity. Once some ears are on the headband you can wear you ears & follow a party monkey-like!

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