Foam Cricket

Published on Mar 13. 2021 - 4 years ago
Updated or edited 4 years ago

A fun and interesting way on how to tie a foam cricket. Charlie Cricket is our Fun with Flies mascot and wanted to share how to tie him like I did for the logo. The pattern requires some brown foam, brown silicone legs, 2 goose biots, and a piece of brown swiss straw.

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