Mo-Men

November, or "Movember", is a time of year when some men grow extra facial hair to raise awareness for men's health issues. I've seen charity events and fundraisers under the "Movember" banner for issues such as prostate or testicular cancer and men's mental health. Neither E nor I are able to or willing to grow a moustache, but we had a little "mo" fun of our own.

Mo-Men

You will need:

• 5 empty toilet-paper rolls (or other cardboard tubes)
• 5 strips of coloured paper, about half the height of the tubes and long enough to go all the way around
• Coloured pencils
• This moustache template printed onto paper or thin card (or draw your own)
• School glue or any craft glue
• Some yarn, cut into 1-2cm long pieces (we used brown)
• 5 small pompoms (we used pink)
• 10 googly eyes

To make:
Using coloured pencils, draw and colour a clothing design onto each strip of coloured paper.
Wrap one strip around each cardboard roll, lining up the bottom edges, and glue in place.
Cut out the moustaches. Coat one side of a moustache with glue. Stick on lots of little pieces of yarn ('hair'). Do this for all 5 moustaches and leave to dry.
Once the glue is dry, stick moustaches into place on the cardboard rolls. Glue on pompom 'noses' and googly eyes.
You now have 5 little "Mo-men".

E began placing the yarn onto the templates one piece at a time, very carefully. She soon realised that it was much easier to pile on handfuls of the stuff. Once they were done, she spent a lot of time playing with her new dolls... they went for a walk along the table and said "hello, hello" a lot. They went for a drive in a shoebox 'car' and found a cardboard box 'house' to live in.

-Polly