Soft toys with their own hands - where to start and how to make at home

Toys are always present in our lives, since childhood. And not only children, adults love toys, especially stuffed animals, no less than children. Soft toys are given for holidays, birthdays.

Now buy a toy is not difficult, in stores is truly a huge selection. But more valued that the handmade. A gift made by oneself, express their attitude towards the person. After all, the toy invested not only their labor and time, but also a part of the soul.

Soft toys can please your child. Favor always find the material from which you can easily make a bright toy. To do this, just take a little effort and show imagination.

In addition, if the child is big enough, then you can do this exciting thing together. This will be useful and the baby for the development of various skills, and adults who can spend time with a child.

What will be needed to make stuffed toys

Soft toys with their own hands are made, as a rule, from fabric. This is the most accessible material, which can always be found in the apartment. For home crafts are suitable for such fabrics:

calico, calico, sateen and other cotton fabrics. They often have bright colorful colors;
knitted fabrics. They are "warm" to the touch, stretch well, which will help hide some of the shortcomings of sewing, if the craftswoman is not very experienced;
denim. This dense fabric "holds" the shape well, is quite dense;
velvet, pieces of terry cloth. Suitable for making fur for toy animals;
baize, fleece. Pleasant to the touch and soft fabrics.

As stuffing is used foam rubber, sintepon, hollofiber. Probably these materials will have to buy. Although you can use fillings from old pillows or winter coat comforters, used their time.

Stages of creation of a stuffed toy

Let's analyze the stages of the creative process of creating a toy. To make a soft toy with your own hands, you need a pattern. If you have enough experience, it is quite possible to make it yourself.

If you are a beginner, you can look at examples of patterns on the internet and either download them or take them as a basis. If you take a pattern from the Internet or draw it on the computer, you need to print it out or sketch it by putting a sheet of paper to the monitor.

After preparing the pattern, choose fabric, prepare materials that may be needed - buttons for the eyes, various ribbons for tails. Multicolored woolen thread, floss for decoration, simple thread. If you do not have a sewing machine - no problem. You can sew the parts by hand. And you may need a wooden stick to turn out the toys after sewing.

The easiest way to make a toy is to make it out of socks.

Bunny

Use a white or gray sock to make a beautiful bunny. In addition to the sock, you will need elastic bands or thread, strips of bright colored fabric. For eyes, you can use small buttons, or you can just draw them with a marker.

Sock conventionally divided into three parts. One - a larger, it will be the body, the other two smaller - the head and ears. Fill parts of socks with filler, designed for the body and head. Pull the rubber band or string to form the head.

From the third part we cut out the ears, sew their edges. The muzzle can be drawn with a marker, or cut out of pieces of fabric and sew on. Tie a scarf from a strip of colored fabric, attach a ponytail. The Bunny is ready!

The Snowman

Another simple sock craft is the snowman. For him, you need a sock of white color. Although, you can take any other color. Rubber bands or thread to form the body and head. For decoration, prepare multi-colored buttons, strips of colored fabric.

Just as when creating a bunny, divide the sock into three parts, one large, two others, including the shin sock - smaller. Fill parts that will be the body and head of the snowman, pull the rubber band or thread.

Turn out sock shin down and make a hat from it. On top of sew a pompon. On the body sew buttons. On the head we draw or make buttons eyes and nose. The mouth can be embroidered with threads.

It remains to tie our snowman with a scarf made of bright fabric or a few woolen threads. Such a toy will be good for the New Year or Christmas.

By the way, such toys can be stuffed with groats, such as rice or millet. It will be useful for baby to develop fine motor skills. In this case, it is better to make toys out of two socks, so that the grits do not fall apart if the first "layer" suddenly ripped. And buttons sew very strong, or even draw them with a marker, so that the child did not tear during the game.

Pillow-toys .

Another option for crafts can be a small pillow. It is very simple to make, you can just make a square or with small ears. On the fabric cut out two equal squares. Fold them right sides together and sew in a circle, leaving a small unstitched area to turn the workpiece and insert a filler.

From pieces of fabric cut out eyes, muzzle, paws, if we do some kind of animal. You can just make colorful scraps of different shapes and sizes. Sew them on the front side of the pillow. Fill the pillow with stuffing, sew the hole, and the pillow toy is ready.

Your child will love this pillow and will be happy to fall asleep with it in his arms. In addition, it is a great gift for your girlfriend or friend. Yes, many men are not at all indifferent to such interior objects.

Elephant trinket

If you have a piece of felt, then from it you can make a child a keychain or decoration on a backpack in the form of an elephant. Cut out on the pattern 2 parts for the body and a few circles for the ears.

Sew on the ears, sew the parts on the outside with a stitch, fill the elephant with synthetic material and sew on the eyes from small buttons of black. To make a keychain or pendant, you need to sew a metal ring with a carabiner or a loop of strong string.

Little birdie .

From a bright cotton fabric you can make a bird. You can draw the pattern yourself. Draw the outline of the future toy, highlighting the beak and tail. The bottom of the workpiece, where the abdomen will be, make it flat. Cut out two parts, fold them face side by side and sew.

Then turn out and stuff the toy tightly with stuffing. Bottom pull string and glue or sew a circle of heavy fabric, felt or denim. Sew to the toy wings of colored fabrics, different from the color of the body. Sew on the eyes from beads or small buttons.

As you can see, it is not difficult to make a soft toy with your own hands. It does not require a lot of spending, mainly your labor and time. Someone who started sewing stuffed toys for children, can turn this into their own business or a source of additional income. After all, things, especially toys made with heart, people like much more than store-bought.

Engaged in the creation of toys, you can usefully spend time with your child. When a child is big enough, he or she can make toys or individual parts on his or her own. This will help him develop skills with scissors and a needle, imagination and spatial thinking, increase self-esteem and confidence in his own strength.