Knitting Pattern: The Animal Headband

I love this easy and adorable project in grade 1/2 for those children that pick up on knitting quickly, whip through all the traditional animal projects (kitten, chicken, lamb, etc.) and really want to design a pattern of their own!

I learned this in my Waldorf Handwork Teacher Training in Chestnut Ridge NY. Here's Zac, age 4, modeling the chipmunk ears I made in 2019.

Now Zac is an 8 year old confident knitter and he really wants to make a headband with fox ears, so I went back to look at my notes. Here they are!

Animal Headband Pattern

Nicole introduced this project with a bit of a mystery, saying "Choose an animal you really like and go to the basket of plant dyed colors and get the yarn which is the predominant color of that animal."

Cast on 6 stitches on size 6 needles, and knit in garter stitch until you have a piece of knitting that is the length of your fingertip to elbow.

Take the piece of garter stitch in your animal color and continue until it is long enough to make a headband that will fit you, then cast off and sew the two ends together.

Design a knitting pattern for the ears for your animal and knit them and sew them onto your headband.

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