Crafty L'il Bezoar

What the dickens is a bezoar you ask? Originally bezoars were awesome looking 'stones'¹ that people, in olden days, found in animal stomachs and put in their drinking cups because they thought it would neutralize any poisons. 

Crazy people in olden times! 

Now bezoars are more often thought of as gross looking rat things that doctors remove from people who eat hair and fabric and other things you are not supposed to. 

Crazy crazy people!

There is one more type of bezoar - the cuddly, cute kind that you can craft at home. You can give a child the gift of their own bezoar without having the potentially injurious pathology of eating hair and other foreign objects.

This is a fun Sunday afternoon craft you can do with the kids, or niece or nephew, or just go find a kid off the street and invite him/her into your house for craft time²

Let's begin,

All you need is: some dryer lint, hair from a hair brush, egg carton, tape and glue.

Get a nice big chunk of dryer lint and harvest some hair from a household hairbrush. 

Mmmmmmm, WAIT! Don't eat it. We already talked about this.

If everyone in your family is bald for whatever reason,³ don't worry. Go down to the local salon or barber shop and beg, borrow or steal a shopping bag of hair clippings.

 

Next you have to make the bezoar body. I cut apart the egg carton to make the body.
You could use anything you wanted to: a ping pong ball, a tennis ball, a bowling ball, a raquet ball, a squash ball, a road hockey ball or some other type of ball.⁴

Tape the two egg carton nests together to make the bezoar body. Glue the dryer lint and hair to the egg carton body. 

Then let your creative flag fly. 

Bits of ribbon, string, clothe or even pieces of shredded balloon make colorful additions to your bezoar. Your only limits are your imagination and the law.

Finally, add a pair of googly eyes and, 

You got a cute little bezoar and one happy kid!

1Actually seeds, fruit piths or pits, dirt and other such junk.

2Not actually recommended. You will probably end up in jail.

3Alopecia, family of skinheads, belong to a cult that is morally opposed to hair, etc...

4Honestly, any type of ball or ball shaped item will do.