Lorax Mug Koozie

The Lorax: "Which way does a tree fall?"
The Once-ler: "Uh, down?"
The Lorax: "A tree falls the way it leans.  Be careful which way you lean."
                                                       -Dr. Suess, The Lorax

The Lorax is the classic environmental story about the consequences of not thinking about environmental sustainability.  The truffula tress were all cut down to make more and more sneeds.  It makes one think what they can do to help.  In order to keep my brother's tea warm while he is out in the field doing environmental research, I made him a Lorax mug koozie.  The face comes from felt scraps.

Materials:

• Orange yarn
• Crochet hook
• Yellow felt scraps
• White felt scraps
• Black felt scraps
• Button
• Needle and thread
• Hot glue gun
• Scissors

Directions:

1. Create a chain of 12, and single crochet until it is about 9 inches long.  (May need to be longer or shorter based on the size or your mug).  Tie off and use excess to create a button hole.

2. Cut out a small mustache and larger mustache out of yellow felt.  Glue them together and then on the bottom of the orange base.

3. Cut out two white circles for eyes and two black circles for pupils.  Glue eyes onto base, just above the mustache.  Glue pupils onto eyes.

4. Cut out two eyebrows out of yellow felt.  Glue onto base with bottom of eyebrows touching the top of the eyes.

5. With orange yarn, glue just enough to the top of the eyes to create eye lids.

6. Slowly glue a circle of orange yarn onto the center of the mustache in order to make the nose.

7. On the side that does not have the button hole, sew a button onto the base.