How to Make Teddy Bear Masks

• 1). Measure the circumference of the wearer's head from the nose around the base of the skull. Measure the length of the head and neck, from the top of the head to where the neck meets the shoulders. Cut along one side of your grocery bag, and one edge of the bag's bottom until you can lay it flat on the table. Draw a rectangle with the base being half of the measurement of the head width, and the height being the measurement of the length of the head and neck. Cut the rectangle out.
  
  
• 2). Iron your muslin and lay it on the cutting table. Fold the muslin in half. Pin your paper square and cut out, allowing for a 1-inch seam allowance all around. You will have made two muslin rectangles. Baste them together on the long sides using a 1/2-inch seam allowance, and gently tug it over the wearer's head. Make sure that the tube can be closed at the top and doesn't fit too snugly around the head. Make notations of measurement adjustments as needed. Remove from the wearer's head.
  Repeat these steps on the muslin again if you need to make your hood bigger. If not, go on to the next step.
  
  
• 3). Lay muslin tube on the table. Using a ruler, measure the middle point at the top edge of the tube. Fold the tube in half with the middle point marking the fold and iron to crease. Draw a gentle curve from the midpoint to the seamed edge. Cut out. Unfold and verify that this creates a rounded top. Baste together, allowing for a 1/2-inch seam allowance. Place back on the wearer and check for fit. Take off and use a ruler to measure where the eye holes and mouth hole should be placed on the front of the mask. Draw them in with tailor's chalk and cut out eye holes and mouth hole. Place back on the wearer. Mark any changes on paper. Remove hood. Unbaste your muslin, making two pattern pieces
  
  
• 4). Look at the wearer and determine what size the ears should be. These will be sewn into the seams of the hood. Draw a circle on your leftover grocery bag paper. Cut out the circle and fold it in half. Mark as "ear." Make a circle half the size of the previous circle, cut out and fold in half. Mark as "ear lining." Cut out four ear pieces in your fake fur or fleece using a 1/2-inch seam allowance. Cut two ear lining pieces out of felt with no seam allowance. Place two ear pieces together with the right sides facing each other and sew on the curve. Turn right side out. Repeat.
  
  
• 5). Lay the patterns for your front and back piece of the mask on the wrong side of your final fabric. Pin and mark with tailor's chalk, including the eye and mouth holes. Cut out, including the holes. Turn the back piece so that the right side is facing up. Locate the center of the curve and measure 2 inches out on each side. Pin the ears at this point so that the straight edges are pinned to the curve of the top of the head and are facing inward. Trim any corners that go beyond the edge of the curve. Place the front piece right side down over the back pieces so the edges meet. Pin in place and sew together. Turn right side out.
  
  
• 6). Squeeze fabric glue onto the edges of the pink felt ear linings and glue to the front of the ears so that the lining is bordered by the ears. Cut out a small triangle or circle of the leftover pink felt and glue onto the front of the mask below the eye holes for a nose. Sew snaps to the turtleneck of the wearer and the mask to hold it in place, if you wish.