Which brings us to this guy.
Tater did this almost entirely on his own. He found the idea in some book, I wish I could credit it properly, but it was months ago, so I have no idea where it came from.
He cut out a little cup from an egg carton. Well, actually I did that part because he tried and it kept coming out the wrong shape and I was afraid he was going to start throwing things (like scissors) around the kitchen. So I intervened.
Once we got the body to be the right shape, he used a permanent market to draw on the face and stripes. We glued googly eyes on the face and cut another little piece of foam from the egg carton and glued it on for a tail.
Voila - raccoon!
The book showed a cardboard-type egg carton, and that might work even better. We had the foam kind and I wasn't going to buy some different kind of eggs just for the carton. Stubborn, yes.
This could work for little cats, dogs, cows, pigs...really any animal if you embellish it properly. Tater was really happy with the end result and proud of himself for doing it (almost) all by himself.
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