Difficulty level: Intermediate. You need to know basic knitting skills and terms and be familiar with the Intarsia method of color changing and how to read a chart.

some notes from the Mama Bear:
If you want larger sizes try different size needles and/or heavier yarn. I have made 12 month thru child sizes using a heavier worsted weight yarn, such as Mary Maxim’s Starlight, Vanna’s Choice, Hobby Lobby’s “I love this yarn” or RedHeart’s Love yarn with larger needles. Any nice soft worsted weight yarn will do. I also realize that there are different brands of fun fur/eyelash yarn available. I happen to just like the Lion Brand the best and you don’t really need that much of it anyway. I would think a yard would be more than enough. You can also leave the hair tuft off the top, but I like it and most cows do have some sort of a hair tuft on top of their head!

Basic Knit terms used in this pattern:
CO: cast on
k or K: knit
kfb: knit one front and back or in other words increase 1
k2tog: knit 2 stitches together
inc: increase
( ): work instructions within parentheses as many times as directed
dec: decrease
p or P: purl
p2tog: purl 2 stitches together
BO: bind off

Materials:
Light worsted weight (#4) yarn:
I skein in Caron Simply Soft in Black divided into 2 balls.
1 skein Caron Simply Soft in White divided into 3 balls
Small amount of Lion Brand Fun Fur in White (a yard is plenty)
1 skein Caron Simply Soft in Bone color for optional horns
Straight knitting needles US sizes 4, 5, and 6
Tapestry needle
Small amount of sticky back craft foam in yellow (or whatever color you want tag)
small amount of paper in matching color

This is my most popular selling hat and I just love making them. Change up the colors for some interesting and different color themes. :-)