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TakemetotheBurrow 
"Probably best to play to our strengths so that sounds good!" And while Maddie had LOTS of strengths, paper mache wasn't one of them. Besides, yetis were the COOLER part and Mo was sort of giving her a BIG responsibility seeing as he was quite fond of the creature. Did that mean he trusted her a whole bunch? Hm. "Maybe pipe cleaners? I could make a camper out of those." And they could use pipe cleaners and tissue paper for a tent! See? She had it under control!
After gathering what she needed, the small brunette set it down on her desk and started with the yetis. Two smaller cotton balls would do for the baby yeti and Maddie placed one on top of the other, sticking them together with the sticking charm. She hadn't used it MUCH but her brothers used it TONS at home and she'd witnessed the movement and incantation enough to make it work. She then grabbed a white pipe cleaner and wound it around the center of the creature, allowing a bit to stick out on each end to make arms.
"Psssst. Does this look like a baby yeti to you?"
Maddie was so self-sufficient and independent, and after Mo watched her for a few long moments, he decided that she didn't need anything from him but acclamation and praise. Later. In the meantime, he was making a paper mache mountain and cave. The cardboard made a roughed out shape, and the pasted-on paper made a textured skin over that. He made the layers thicker where the cardboard bent, and he rounded it at the bottom where their cave was located.
Not bad, really, although it would need a good deal of paint to make the mountain really pop out of the paste-and-paper structure. Mo turned the hot air charm against the wet paste as he admired Maddie's baby yeti.
"Yup. It might need little eyes if we can manage it, but it's awful cute. You've done this before, haven't you?" She was a pro.