No-Sew Owlloween Hoot Sock Pillow

       Our Owlloween Hoot pillow is made from a novelty sock, using the festive colors of the season. He has adorable big eyes and will look so cute inside of the doll house this Halloween. You can make one too if you have an adult or teenage sibling near by to help you with the hot glue gun!

Craft Supply List:

• a stripped sock
• two black beads (for eyes)
• felt scraps: pale yellow, tan, white, gold, and black
• cotton batting 
• hot glue and hot glue gun

Step-by-Step Directions:

1.  Trim off the top half of a child's Halloween sock (see pictures below) leaving the 'heal' part fo the sock intact.
   
2. Stuff the lower end of the sock with cotton batting. Do not overstuff, this will cause the knit pillow to loose it's rectangular shape.
3. Pull the heal part of the sock over the front half of your pillow and hot glue it in place. This should make a V shape for the owl's head.
4. Cut long narrow strips of pale yellow felt and then fringe the felt with the scissors.
5. Glue pieces of this fringe on either side of the heal, tucking just behind the knit opening as seen in photos below. Now make sure that the opening is glued down firmly before proceeding to the next step.
6. Cut two identical circles of white felt for the owl's eyes.
7. Then cut two identical half circles of gold felt for the owl's eye lids.
8. Cut a black fringe of felt for the owl's eye lashes.
9. Collect black beads for the owl's eye pupils.
10. Glue a fringe of pale yellow felt around the edge of the owl's white felt eyes and then hot glue these to the owl's head. 
11. Glue on the eye lids and then the eye lashes. 
12. Glue or sew on the black pupils. (beads)
13. Cut a small triangle from tan felt for it's beak and glue this into place.

Left, choose a Halloween novelty sock for the owl pillow. Center, cut apart the sock
 just above the heal. Right, stuff the sock lightly, being careful not to over stuff it.

Left, pull the heal over the top of the sock opening to make the triangular shaped head of the owl.
 Center, glue the fringed felt just beneath the stockings heal. Right, how the fringe will look
on the back side of the sock pillow.

Left, the cut pieces needed for the owl's eyes. Right, the finished Owlloween hoot pillow

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