My kids love animal crackers.  Don’t most kids?  When I was growing up, I always loved to eat the Barnum animal crackers that came in the zoo train box.  I mean, it had a string handle!  And do you remember when you could pop the perforated wheels out of the train so that it became a toy when you were finished with the cookies?  Memories, y’all.

Well, my kids don’t like that kind.  They prefer the Stauffer’s animal crackers, particularly the ones that come in the giant plastic bear jar (Amazon affiliate link).  I think they must like them because of the packaging – I still think that the Barnum crackers taste better than the Stauffer’s ones.  But, the jars are really cute, and I have been threatening to use them in a project for a while now.

Inspiration finally struck.

Ha!  Isn’t he cute?  Super quirky. And he was so easy to put together.

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