Sheep Costumes

I needed three sheep costumes for our nativity that we were involved in.  I had an idea and here is how it goes.

 I started with a plain black t-shirt (you could use white, but I had an abundance of black on hand) 

and some black cut off sweat pants.

I covered some small pillows with plastic trash bags and put the shirts and pants on them to fill them out a bit.  You can see below that I cut the shorts even shorter.

We used some 

since that is what was on sale at the store, but I could have used just regular batting.

We made it into balls,

Then we used spray glue

to spray one side

and put the balls onto the gluey clothes.

until they were really densely covered.  And repeated on the other side.

They were fluffy enough they stood on their own.

Here is how it turned out.

I did have to reglue a lot of the areas once we moved the costumes around, so make sure that you use lots of glue.  

Manger

We needed a manger to go with our Nativity and since I couldn't find anything around the house that would work, we made one out of Hazelnut shoots (they grow like weeds in our yard) and string.  

First I cut a bunch of shoots the same length, about 2 ft.

Then Daphne and I lashed them together.  One of us holding while the other did the string.

We did 2 x's first, then lashed cross pieces across the center and up the sides.

Lastly, we put stabilizing ones on the bottom .

We filled it with long needle pine needles, since they are also abundantly available in our yard.  It made a great substitute for straw.