Ridiculously Cute No-Sew Ewok Minnie Ears for Star Wars Fans

Instructions

1. Roll four equal-sized portions of black clay (about ½ dime-sized) into neat balls to form eyes and set aside.
2. Mix 2 quarter-sized portion of brown clay with 1 dime-sized portion of black clay until the color is consistently brown-grey.
3. Split the now brown-grey clay in half.
4. Roll each half portion of brown-grey clay into a ball with two gently pointed ends.
5. Turn each of the pointed ends downward and pinch a little in the middle to form the nose. Flatten the back and front of the nose a little, perhaps even pinching the top of the nose a bit to give it a little more shape. Bake noses and eyes per the instructions on your clay’s packaging. Allow them to cool before touching.
6. Seal eyes and noses with polymer clay sealant and set aside to dry.
7. Lay headband over cardboard circles and sketch where you want the ears to sit on the headband. Cut out any area of ears that is unnecessary.
8. Cut out four Ewok ear shapes from additional cardboard using the larger ear shape on the printable pattern.
9. Hot glue each of the four Ewok ear shapes to their approximate location, two Ewok ears on each of the Mickey ears.
10. Trace the new shape of the Mickey ears onto the back of the brown craft fur four times, taking care that the fur will lay the way you want it to when mounted to the ear.
11. With an exacto knife, cut out Mickey ear shapes from the brown craft fur. Hot glue ear shapes of brown craft fur to the front and back of the cardboard cut out. Take care to glue around the edges, keeping the edge of the fur fabric from showing.
12. Cut two smaller inside-of-the-Ewok-ear shapes from the printable pattern in brown craft felt.
13. Brush the fur on each Ewok ear away from the center. Hot glue the inside-of-the-Ewok-ear shapes inside the center of the Ewok ears, taking care to only put hot glue in the center of the felt so that it will curve and add shape when placed on the fur. Allow the hot glue to dry completely.
14. Cut two lengths of faux leather canvas sufficiently wide enough and long enough to fully cover the top half of one of the Mickey ears.
15. Lay one of the Mickey ears on the backside of the faux leather cutout and mark where the Ewok ears are located. Cut a hole in the faux leather by folding it in half at the mark you just made. I widened my hole further by making additional cuts.
16. Tuck the Ewok ears into the holes cut in the faux leather and mark where the edge of the Mickey ear sits on the faux leather. Mark the approximate location of the brim of the hat across the Ewok’s face. Flip the Mickey ears and mark the edge of the Mickey ears on the faux leather’s back panel and the approximate location of the back brim of the hat across the back of the Ewok’s head.
17. Remove the faux leather from the Ewok head and trim along the marked lines, taking care to leave a space between the hole for the Ewok ears and the edge of the faux leather.
18. Hot glue the bottom 1-inch of the edge of the front of the Ewok hat to the edge of the back of the Ewok hat on both sides. Do not go all the way up, as you will want to tuck that down into the hat to keep the hat from being a funky square.
19. Tuck the hat back onto the Ewok head, pulling the Ewok ears through the slots provided. Tuck extra faux leather down inside, hot gluing in place, if desired.
20. Hot glue eyes and noses onto each Ewok’s face.
21. Cut six random shapes about the size of a dime from scraps of faux leather. Poke a hole in the center of each random shape and thread a piece of string (from the burlap ribbon) through 3 of the shapes. Hot glue this loosely onto the hat of each Ewok.
22. Hot glue the two ears in place on the headband, taking care to hold them firmly until the hot glue is completely cooled.
23. Cut two 8-inch long strips of burlap ribbon and one 4-inch strip. Hot glue one end of one of the 8-inch long strips of burlap ribbon to the inside of one side of the tip of the headband. Wrap the burlap ribbon around the headband, and hot glue periodically, up to where the Ewok ear is in the way. Hot glue this end down and trim. Repeat with the other side of the headband with the other 8-inch long strip of burlap ribbon and on the center of the headband between the two Mickey ears, with the 4-inch strip.
24. Cut a piece of burlap ribbon about 6-inches long. Cut a strip of burlap ribbon about ½-inch wide and about 4-inches long.
25. Gather the 6-inch long burlap ribbon in the center, then wrap the 4-inch long strip around that center location, creating a rough bow. Hot glue the strip in place in the center of the bow. Hot glue the bow onto the headband, between the two Ewoks.
26. Hot glue the tiny grey felt square to one end of the stick and fold it over. Fold the back end of the felt square up, creating a kind of spear-like shape Hot glue in place. Wrap a string from the burlap ribbon around the spear-like-shape, hot gluing that in place with a tiny drop of hot glue. Hot glue this spear in place on top of the bow.