How to make a soft toy with your own hands

Soft toys are furry, reliable friends of kids. What problems arise in their acquisition? No, with today's abundance of specialized toy stores and departments in large supermarkets. But for some reason they do not attract the same type of bears and bunny to neither the kids nor their parents. Mom and grandmother are interested in how to make a soft toy.

Why is it so important to make a teddy friend for a baby? Because in this little gift there will be a clot of positive energy, so much love and care, that a dumb manny or golenkiy friend will become a kind of amulet for a child. These are not empty words. It was not for nothing that our distant ancestors always made little dolls-amulet for the born babies, hung them over the cradle.

It was believed that in each such miniature defender, parents sat in the guardian angel for the child. Now for a long time no one believes in this, but the warmth of the hands of the toy, its energy at some subconscious level is transferred to the fabric, thread, expression of the face or face of the doll or animal. Based precisely on these considerations, you should learn a few simple lessons on sewing such things. How to make a soft toy the most favorite for the baby? First you need to decide what the child likes: beasts or dolls, cars or geometric figures. And only then proceed to manufacture.

A monkey

So how to make a soft toy with your own hands in stages? Very soon, the New Year holiday will come, so I would like to make a suitable friend for a child. The symbol of the next year is a monkey. This merry prankster will be an excellent gift to your favorite holiday and adults and children. First you need to prepare a piece of fabric, in this case, fit felt or fleece. Will need more:

• cotton fabric,
• satin ribbon,
• lace,
• Sintepon for packing,
• Fabric adhesive,
• Thread,
• Beads for eyes,
• scissors.

Everything is ready, laid out on the table, you can begin to pattern the details.

The process of creating a new friend

How to make a soft toy with your own hands? First, cut all the elements first from paper, and then from the prepared pieces of fabric. Fleece is suitable for ears and trunk toys. To do this, you have to fold the material in half, lay out the paper patterns, for stillness and accuracy, you need to pin the paper to the fabric. Circle the details with chalk or a piece of soap. Using a sewing machine, apply stitching stitches, only leaving the bottom of each part loose. The fabric for the face and pens should be much lighter than the one with which they just worked. Similar to the previous actions, you should circle the elements of the handles on the fabric, folded into two layers, and the muzzle - in one layer. Legs will be made of different colors of matter.

It remains to sew all the details by hand, turn each outside and fill it with sintepon. Sew the legs and handles, as well as all the remaining parts to the trunk of the toy. Details of a muzzle and ears hardly to pull together a thread to give volume. Clog the remaining elements with filler, attach to the trunk, add bead-eyes and sew a red strip, which acts as a smiling mouth. Now add different items of clothing - and the toy is ready.

In the same way, you can make any other little animal or doll. Here's how to make a soft toy. Everything is quite simple and quite fast.

To create such things you can use already out of fashion hats, the remnants of ribbons and lace, lying idly in the trunks pieces of cloth. That set of materials, which was considered in the example with the monkey, will be standard.

So we looked at how to make a monkey. It is necessary for an example to describe the stages of creating another cheerful girlfriend for children.

A wondrous owl. How to make a soft toy?

Photo of cute owls fascinates not only children, but also adult girls. So now you can diversify the world of toys baby new friend. How? Of course, an owl. You can just take it and sew it yourself. The following materials and tools will be needed:

• felt,
• twine,
• Thread for embroidery,
• Buttons,
• wire,
• Needles,
• scissors,
• paper.

Making a toy

First, draw a pattern of owls and cut out of paper. The details are transferred to the fabric. Duplicate in two pieces. The eyes are made of pieces of light fabric, and let the kid then draw his eyes with his toy. For a breast it is required one detail, a nose is cut out in the form of a red triangle. At the next stage, all the preparations for the toy-owls are made of cloth. Now you need to sew the paired parts, leaving the holes for packing, which are sewn up last. For the paws, you will need a wire, wrap it with twine so that it does not pass through the fabric and does not harm the baby. Paws and wings can be bent. The owl can take various poses, it can be seated on the edge of a chair or crib. Sew all the details. After that, we can assume that the game is ready.

Here's how to make a soft toy with your own hands. Everything is done even easier than with a monkey.

Tips on using fabrics in the process of creating children's soft toys

Each fabric has its own properties. To properly use the trimming of the remaining matter, you need to own such information in full.

So, jersey is perfect for sewing any toy, as it has the property of stretching, and therefore will take any form.

Cloth on a cotton basis is better for using for a cloth doll.

Flannel or terry cloth will help create a magnificent bear.

Artificial fur was created in order to bring joy to children in the form of any toy.

Of felt it is best to make small details of paws, noses, ears. This material holds the shape well.

A small conclusion

Now it's clear how to make a soft toy at home. It turns out that if you know some subtleties, you can successfully make it yourself. Everything is done quite simply. We wish you good luck in creating a unique toy for your child, grandson or little sister!