These little fellows were born out of a quest to find fun things to put in the larger cache containers as my husband and I enjoy our newest hobby of geocaching.  Collecting cache’s adds another element of to a hike on a trail around home, creates a pit stop while traveling, or while we are exploring a new place.  We’ve become rather attached to this activity, that can take as little or as much time as you like, and probably the best part is – it takes you to places and information that you might never have noticed.  Believe it or not, some of them right in your own neck of the woods and right under your nose!  If you’re not familiar check out www.geocaching.com

While cashing I figured there might be others out there who would get a kick out of a small project found in a cache stash, so I started creating these little critters and will continue to add video instructions for making them here, as I have time to come up with new ideas and create them as a project.  Click the title for each animal to go to the page that has the printed instructions and a video overview of how to make them!

If you’re a geocacher you may find a few different animals in my collection as you step onto a trail I have wandered down before you.  If so, your critter bag should have most, if not all, of the supplies you need.  If you come up with your own critter send me a photo and instructions and I’ll add it to the cache collection that I leave in the wake of my travels.

Foxy Loxy A dark brown fox made out of pipe cleaners.

Foxy Loxy is my first attempt at creating a pipe cleaner animal.  Foxy was inspired by the fox that lived under our back deck one summer.  When I needed to create something out of an orange pipe cleaner for an Instructional Design class, Foxy Loxy was born.  Your foxy, may be orange or brown or whatever color you like if you have your own pipe cleaners to play with.

 

Carl the CameleonGreen pipecleaner chameleon

Carl was the second creation in my pipe cleaner animal collection, and actually easier to make than Foxy Loxy I think.