Hand-made stuffed toys - detailed instructions for the novice masters

Interesting needlework for novice craftsmen

Despite the fact that a huge variety of toys are offered from the shelves of children's stores, a handmade craft will be the best gift for the baby. And it does not matter if the homemaker has no experience and skill as a seamstress, the most important thing is the desire to please a child or an adult.

Make a toy with their own hands, it means to put in it a part of your soul, which is sure to appreciate the one to whom it will get. The main thing in the creative process is the right choice of interesting ideas and compulsory observance of the technology of sewing the finished product.

Toys of different shapes and sizes help to organize an interesting and fascinating game, and are used for the learning process. Special attention deserves beautiful backpacks decorated with soft toys in the form of fairy tale characters or cartoon characters and children's favorite books.

Using different templates and sketches of soft toys can be made animals and birds, figurines with the shapes of mushrooms and fruits. It is such crafts are used as teaching aids in the education of young children, becoming a favorite companion of children for a long time.

What kinds of soft toys you can make yourself

Priceless pieces of piecework are true masterpieces that amaze with their original design. Soft toys, which can be sewn with their own hands, amaze by the variety of their shapes and sizes and can be divided according to their intended purpose:

• Decorating a child's room. To decorate the nursery or play space, you can use unusual cushion toys, play poufs in the shape of butterflies and bees. Geometric shapes can be used to make entire castles and shelters, and stars and celestials can be used to imitate the look of the open sky. The individual elements can be used to form a beautiful and bright garland for a holiday, New Year or Halloween, to decorate a room for a birthday or other celebration;
• items for the play area. Animals and birds, symbols of the new year and favorite characters from fairy tales easily coexist in the play area. For girls are sewn dolls squiggles and princesses with hair from thread, the boys can please monsters and cars. From the boxes you can build a real hangar for soft cars or doll houses for interesting gameplay;
• developing toys for children. In the category of developing toys include soft toy books made of felt or felt, developing mats. If desired, you can make a whole garden with vegetables and beds, trees and fruits, make a farm with animals or urban street installation.

Using different templates and sketches of soft toys you can make animals and birds, figurines with the shapes of mushrooms and fruits. It is these crafts are used as teaching aids in the education of young children, becoming a favorite companion of children for a long time.

Materials used for making toys

With their own hands to sew toys is not difficult, and you can use a sewing machine, which will greatly simplify and speed up the process. To organize the creative process, any master will need certain materials and accessories include:

• Sketches and templates with individual parts, where the dimensions and the exact configuration of the elements are indicated for their easy reproduction;
• Needles and threads, scissors and accessories for decorating the finished product, buttons or ready-made eyes, spouts and ribbons, beads and sequins;
• Basic materials for sewing toys, you can use soft felt or felt, natural fabric or artificial fur, burlap;
• Stuffing, which is what makes the toy soft, it is best to choose hypoallergenic materials and refuse to use cotton, clumping into lumps.

To fill a craft, it is better to use sintepon or hollofiber, and developing toys filled with special tactile material. For cushion toys it is recommended to use as a filler foam or granulate and refuse to use natural down or feather.

Toy pillow for the play area in the form of a doughnut

The original solution for decorating a child's or teenager's room will be a soft toy pillow in the form of a real doughnut. To make it, you will need a simple template, fabric for the base and scraps of felt for decoration, thread and needle, scissors and inspiration:

• from a dense fabric (orange or light brown) two circles are cut out, with the diameter of the future craft, then the inner part corresponding to the hole in the doughnut is cut out in the blanks;
• Similar blanks are cut out of white fabric, their edges should be uneven, with a wavy pattern; such elements will imitate the snow-white glaze on the donut, but you can do without them;
• ...cut small strips (3x1 cm) from multicolored and bright felt, they can be used to imitate sweet sprinkles on a donut, and it is possible to use improvised sprinkles in a round shape;
• After all the elements and patterns have been prepared, it is possible to sew the ready-made product. Begin by attaching the improvised sprinkles to the glaze, and then sew this element to the base of the future doughnut;
• The simple process of stitching all the elements can be accelerated by using a sewing machine, with this helper you can save a lot of time and make the seams on the toy even and neat;
• When sewing the base of a soft toy, use a back seam, it should not be continuous, a certain hole will help fill the toy with filler, and then the parts are completely sewn by hand.

Masters who have a certain sewing experience can use hidden zippers, such an accessory is hidden from sight and simplifies the procedure of replacing the filler. The finished product is recommended to be carefully washed and ironed, after which it can be used as a decor for a child's room or upholstered furniture, for sitting and playing.

Rather simple master class can be used as a basic instruction for sewing stuffed toys of different types and shapes. Using different photos of toys, you can make beautiful sketches and templates yourself, making a gift that the child will be really excited about. These crafts are also used as original and themed gifts to close and familiar children, replacing the purchased and not always high quality toys.

Photo ideas of homemade stuffed toys