In honor of Dr. Seuss Birthday today we made some "Thing" pencils. When I was little I think they were called 'Worry Pencils.'
Do you remember them and what they were called? You smooth out the hair and then you quickly roll the pencil between your hands and the hair flairs out.
I thought they would be perfect to go along with the 'Thing' in the Dr. Seuss book
I looked everywhere for blue fur and the best I could do was this scarf from the $$ store. I easily found the white fur at JoAnn's.
I cut a piece of fur about 2" X 4". When cutting make sure you only cut the back of the fabric, this will allow the fur to remain long. Using a low temp glue gun (so kids can help with supervision) hot glue the fur to the pencil.
Roll the fur around the pencil and fasten off at the bottom with a dot of hot glue. Next add some wiggly eyes and the 'Thing' is finished!
Roll quickly between your hands to give the 'Thing' a wild do!
If you would like a sweet treat to celebrate. Becky H. sent me these pictures of the Cat in the Hat cupcakes. She said, "I used a mini cupcake for the head, but you could also use a doughnut hole. The had is a marshmallow glued on with frosting. The eyes and nose are M&M's. The whiskers and hat stripes are just frosting that I tinted and piped on. The original called for twizler type candy, but I had a hard time getting it to curl around the hat and stay there even with gobs of frosting, so the piping was much easier for me."
Don't forget to whip up some Oobleck and make a cool Cat in the Hat hat!
Wonderful! I remember these, I loved these. I’m going to the craft store today anyway, and some fur will be coming home with me. (I know I’ve got some eyes somewhere….)
I LOVE your pencils and think I’ll whip some up for my children right now! My kids school is having a Dr. Seuss week. Today is Green Eggs and Ham day. They had to wear green for it. This proved to be interesting because it’s also PE day for one daughter and her PE shoes are pink! She didn’t care, though! Thanks for a quick and easy idea!
Rebecca
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too much! very very cute! my jk would eat the fuzz…stilly kid!
that is so adorable!! will have to do these next year
Love the Dr. Seuss stuff. I sent it to my family! Go check my latest entry and then go to her site. I put you as a favorite bc you rock! Hope you are having a great Monday!
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Really cute. I especially like the blue ones.
Love it! I remember having pencils like that as a kid – my son would LOVE these!
Adorable – especially the blue one!
Too cute! I love Thing 1 and Thing 2 … so cute, and naughty too!
Those pencils are great!
I totally love your thing pencils – great idea!
OMG! How cute! I have a friend who needs to see those cupcakes! Awesome!
I really like your blog! I miss my kids being little, I used to love making stuff like this with them but they are 17 and 19 now!
I remember these too!! I think we did call them worry dolls! What fun!!
LOVE EM!
Love the pencils, we did a lot of Dr. Seuss activities too..posted on my blog. I love the treats too!
They were definitely called worry pencils!
Love this cute little pencils! Make great gifts for children. But I will call them hairy ones! Thanks!
Those are so cute, I will have to remember them for next year. Fun!
Love it!!
I love the cupcake idea. My kindergarter is celebrating Read Across America this week and we have snack on Thursday. I was wanting to make a Dr. Suess themed cupcake and here it is. Can’t wait to send them in to school. I think I’ll also make some with piped on fish for Red Fish, Blue Fish.
I wish I had read this sooner! Too cute! My kids and I made Dr. Seuss hat treats, bookmarkers and oobleck for their classes at school. I will be making these next year. Love your ideas. Check out my treats at my blog.
I love the pencils! My kids are slightly obsessed with Dr. Suess so these will be perfect to make. I think I actually have some fuzzy blue fur and googly eyes in my (much too neglected now) craft closet. Thanks for the great idea!
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