How Do You Make Any Beanbag Or Small Stuffed Toy?
Children love small toys to play with, collect or carry with them in their backpacks or pockets. You can easily create many different types; animals, people, toys in any fabric whether plain or coloured. Cut, stuff with beans or polyfil, sew and add faces and detailing with embroidery or fabric paint. Delight a child with a collection! Use any picture from old magazines, books, etc. Look for pictures that have rounded edges or round them as you cut. Do not use pictures that will require a lot of attachments. As much as possible try to cut in one piece, only adding ears, perhaps bunny puff tail. You can make the picture larger or smaller using a photocopier to enlarge or by squaring off with 1″ squares using a ruler. Then on larger paper, make 2″ squares and draw the picture into the larger squares copying from the smaller picture. Square off the picture or place on a window with graph over top and trace the picture outline. The same applies to make the picture smaller; use 1/2″ squares
