How to sew a toy?

The current market for children's toys is simply oversaturated with the range and variety of choices. Unfortunately, in spite of such wealth, it is rather difficult to find a high-quality and safe toy for your baby, and it costs a lot. That is why hand-made crafts are so valuable today. If you decide your child to make a beloved owlet or bunny with his own hands, we will tell you how to sew a toy at home quickly and efficiently.

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How to sew a toy? Tips for Beginners

Making such a gift for your child is one of the best manifestations of parental feelings. During work, you put all your love into the product, and by connecting a little imagination, you can satisfy even the most demanding toy connoisseurs. To create it you will not need a large amount of materials. Many parents most often use what they already have at hand. Well, if you decide to take this matter seriously, then you can purchase all the necessary materials and accessories in a special store for needlework.

Choosing a fabric for a toy

You can choose absolutely any fabric, focusing on its tactile sensations and your taste preferences. Craftswomen most often choose:

• Cotton. This is the most ideal option for making toys with your own hands. This fabric is hypoallergenic, and due to its pleasant texture and a large assortment of various colors, you can create a toy that will appeal to your baby.
• Knitwear Also a soft cloth mixed with synthetic fibers. If you intend to make a large number of toys, you can safely get it.

Important! For a single sewing, it is better to avoid knitwear, and opt for cotton materials.

• Wool. This is a quite often used fabric in sewing toys. Basically, it acts as additional shreds or other decorative elements.
• Silk. It is used to make additional accessories that are mounted on top of the background fabric.
• Felt. Today it is one of the most popular and inexpensive materials for the manufacture of children's toys. He gained his popularity due to the ability to keep his shape well, does not wear out and does not shed.

Choose a pad

Also important is the choice of internal stuffing toys. The most popular materials:

• Hollofbeiber;
• Vata
• Foam rubber;
• Synthetic fluff.

Important! If you want the toy not only to cause aesthetic pleasure in the baby, but also develop fine motor skills, buckwheat, rice or peas can be used instead of the standard stuffing. The most important thing is to pre-dry the cereals before pouring them into the toy.

Tools for work

In addition to the above materials, you will also come in handy:

• Scissors;
• Needle;
• Colored threads;
• A variety of decorative accessories, for example, ribbons, buttons, beads, lace;
• Ruler;
• Remnant;
• Paper;
• Sewing machine;
• Iron.

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Toy Workshop

We bring to your attention several ideas on how to sew a toy with your own hands out of fabric. This process will not take so much time, but in the end it will bring joy to you and your baby.

Felt kitten

This is a very bright and original toy that leaves no one indifferent and causes emotion not only in children but also in adults. To make it you will need:

• Colored felt;
• Filler;
• 2 beads (for eyes);
• A variety of bows (optional);
• Colored threads.

How to sew:

1. Put a picture of your future kitten on paper, cut it out.
2. According to the pattern, transfer the pattern to the fabric and cut 2 parts.
3. Next, draw up the muzzle. Beads will play the role of the eyes, and cilia can be made of thread or black fishing line. The nose and mouth should be embroidered with black thread.
4. Sew stitches with a buttonhole, but not all. One side should be left.
5. Through an unbroken hole, fill the product with packing material and stitch it.

That's all. You can additionally decorate your kitten with bows, beads, embroidery or shreds.

Beloved bunny

In order not to spend a lot of effort, but at the same time the finished toy turned out to be original and cute, you can use the most ordinary sock.

Important! It is best to use a soft terry sock. In addition to the fact that your bunny will be quite unusual, such a toy will contribute to the development of tactile sensations of your baby.

In order to make a toy hare, you will need:

• Solid toe;
• Pompom (you can buy it ready-made or make it yourself);
• Felt;
• Thin rubber bands;
• Beads;
• Tapes;
• Glue for fabric;
• Filler;
• Colored ribbons.

You can sew this toy with your own hands according to this algorithm:

1. The sock should be tightly filled with filler.
2. Determine the place where your hare will have a neck, tie it with a thread or thin elastic band.
3. A piece of sock that has remained loose should be cut into two pieces, sheathed and shaped to fit the ears.
4. Cut several circles of felt of different sizes that can be glued to the navel, nose and teeth.
5. As for the eyes, in this case, everything depends entirely on your taste preferences. To do this, you can use the same felt, buttons, beads or embroider.
6. Sew a small pompon as a ponytail. If desired, the hare can be decorated with bows or a butterfly.

Cockerel - Golden Scallop

A cheerful multi-colored cockerel can cheer up both children and adults, and even a beginner can sew such a toy with his own hands.

To do this, you will need the following materials:

• Colored shreds of fabric;
• Colored threads;
• Sewing machine;
• Needles;
• Filler;
• Ready pattern.

Important! You can build a pattern yourself, or you can download a ready-made one from the Internet.

We sew a toy with our own hands:

• Using patterns, transfer the elements of the future product to the fabric and cut out the details.

Important! When cutting parts, add about 2 centimeters for allowances and seams.

• Sew the parts together, leaving one small hole.
• Fill the toy with stuffing material, sew gaps.
• With the help of felt, you make out the scallop, eyes and beak.

We sew owls from clothes

If you have old things lying in your closet, they can serve as an excellent material for making a children's toy. We bring to your attention a master class in tailoring owls from fabric. In the same way you can make cats and other animals. The main thing is to connect imagination. The process is quite simple, and the finished result will surely please you and your child.

You will need:

• Thick cardboard;
• Stuffing material;
• The cloth;
• Needle;
• Multi-colored threads;
• Decorative fittings;
• Scissors.

Sewing process:

• First you need to build a pattern. Using the protractor, draw straight lines that at the point of intersection will form an angle of 85 degrees. From the corner, measure 12-15 centimeters (the height of your toy), connect the points with straight lines. In exactly the same way, build another shape with an angle of 30 degrees. Cut them out of paper or cardboard.
• Apply the finished pattern elements to the fabric, cut out future workpieces.
• Sew all parts (except the bottom) together. You should have a figure with something resembling a cone.
• Separate a quarter of the total size using a tailor's pin.
• Fill the bottom of the workpiece with filler and sew it up.
• The end, separated by a pin, should be sewn to the body.If desired, you can decorate the seam with a button. You will get an owl's beak.

Important! If you sew a hare, then in this case the unfilled part of the workpiece should be cut in half, if desired, stuffed with filler. This way you get ears.

• Next, you can proceed to the decor. For example, eyes made of felt and small buttons. If you wish - you can add a bow to a bow, butterflies or beads.

Important! You can complement this toy with an original stand. To do this, take a large button, sew it with a cloth, attach it to the bottom of the product.

DIY leather toy

A leather toy is much stronger than a fabric one. Its advantage is that it will last much longer and is not exposed to so much different pollution. The only drawback is the laboriousness of its manufacture.

If you all decide on this, you will need the following materials:

• Pieces of colored skin;
• Stuffing material;
• Thimble for manual stitching;
• Decorative fittings;
• Needles.

Important! Please note that ordinary needles will not work in this case. For working with leather there are special ones - faceted-sewing, with a pointed trihedral cross-section. They are also called saddlers.

Leather toys are made in the same way as fabric toys: creating patterns, transferring a picture to a fabric, cutting out the necessary elements, stitching and decoration.

Important! To make the toy more interesting, you can paint it with acrylic paints.

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How to sew a toy in your hand?

Having made such a toy, you can create a home theater in which not only you, but also your children will be an actor. To make it you will need:

• 4 shreds of fabric in different colors;
• Ready-made application of the muzzle of an animal, for example, a cat;
• Filler;
• 3-5 small buttons.

When the materials are all ready, you can safely get to work:

• The necessary details should be cut from the fabric:
  1. Head 10x11 centimeters;
  2. Ears 5x5 centimeters;
  3. Dress 15x18 centimeters;
  4. Paws 6x7 centimeters.
• All elements of the future toy must be sewn. Do not stitch only the lower part of the paws, ears and head.
• Sew the paws to the dress.
• Fill your ears and head with filler, then sew them.

Important! To increase the interest of a small child, you can put a small rattle in the head of a future product.

• Sew your head to the dress.
• Decorate the outfit with buttons and bows.

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As you can see, tailoring children's toys is not so complicated, but gives a lot of pleasure to loving parents, because during the process you put all your love and care into them. Therefore, such toys will surely please your baby and will become your favorite.