How to Make a Dozen Sheep Costumes in 18 Semi-Easy Steps

Step 1: Buy headbands, safety pins, and cotton balls. Spend extra time making sure some headbands are in boyish colors, too. That way your boy sheep won't have to wear pink.

Step 2: Borrow a hot glue gun and felt from a friend, because your stuff is still in storage. And because it's cheaper that way.

Step 3: Scour the kitchen for good scissors. Give up and grab some safety scissors.

Notice that your MIL's initials are the same as yours... again. Decide not to, even though could take the scissors because they have your initials.

Step 4: Set up camp on the floor in the basement. Use a cardboard box to serve as your "table".

Step 5: Somehow manage to cut yourself on the headbands wrapper. Because you are awesome like that.

Step 6: Google "sheep ears". Realize that sheep ears aren't as cute as you thought the were, but that's okay.

Step 7: Use your safety scissors to freehand cut a random shape out of felt. Spend 5 minutes holding it against your head looking at it in the bathroom mirror to decide if it will work.

Step 8: Decide it will work. Cut out 40 more. With your safety scissors.

Step 8.5: Use your flat iron as a fabric iron. Again. Wonder if other people do this, too... or if you're just weird.

Step 9: Burn your thumb with the hot glue at LEAST as many time as you have felt shapes.

Step 10: Have an ADD moment and start making tails instead. Tear up some cotton balls, glue them together, then use half a glue stick trying to make your safety pin stick to the cotton balls.

Step 11: Make sure you assume the glue is dry enough to hold the pin up, then check it 30 seconds later to find the pin glued sideways. Make a mental note to work on your glue-drying-patience skills.

Step 12: Panic for half a second when you realize even your boy-colored headbands have silver shiny, glittery, stuff on them. Decide your boy sheep are just going to have to get over it.

Step 13: Realize you have 2 more headbands than you thought. Bust out your safety scissors and cut out more ears. Like a boss.

Step 14: Realize that if your felt was green, these would look like yoda ears.

Step 15: Take a caramel corn break, and tell Pandora to get it together when it starts playing sleepy songs.

Step 16: Hot glue like CRAZY. Start making pairs of ears.

Step 17: Realize you made a bunny tail, not a sheep tail. Panic and redesign.  Make 3 ACTUAL sheep tails.

Step 18: Realize that your audience will understand the children on stage are sheep with the ears, and that tails really just aren't necessary. Take pride in your work without regret at what you didn't do. Ignore the flaws and enjoy the process. Set those sheep ears down and admire your work. :)