I have been mulling around with the idea of turning my kids stuffed animals into scarves! Finally, this week I got to making this craft and you won’t believe how easy it was to make. My boys are not really into cuddling with their stuff animals every night but they do like to have them around so now they can literally have them “around” their neck. This is my 4 year olds pet turtle, Galapagos.
They had already given quite a few stuffed animals away but they have already accumulated more. Somehow we always end up with more so I think this is another fabulous way to repurpose them. This craft is really easy, your kids could make their own scarf with very little help from you. And the best thing is it’s no sew if you want it to be!
Supplies:
- Stuffed animal
- fleece
- hot glue gun or needle & thread or your sewing machine
1. Cut your stuffed animal down the belly. Take out what it has been stuffed with and place it aside.
2. Cut your fleece about 8 inches wide and as long as you want your scarf to hang. If you need to you can use an old scarf as a pattern and trace it with chalk.
3. Grab one half of the stuffed animal and insert one end of the scarf into it.
4. Pin it to make sure that both of the sides line up and sew it up or glue it with a hot glue gun. I hand stitched mine because my animal is a turtle and the back was to thick for me to just glue.
5. Repeat step 3 & 4 with the other side.
It was so easy to make that I decided it’s my new gift for kids! It took me about 25 minutes to make b/c I hand stitched the stuffed animal but if I would have used glue it would have taken 10min time.
CUte idea. Your little guy looks really happy with his turtle scarf! And you can’t beat that time requirement either.
Karen, Thanks, he was excited to wear it yesterday morning! Though it never made it home, hmmmm. Yes, it was so very easy.
What a fun idea! I bet it makes wearing scarves more fun!
Stephanie, I don’t know if little girls are more excited about wearing scarves than boys, but somedays they fight it that it’s like I am asking them to put thorns around their neck. Hopefully, this will help that battle
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Neat idea! Thanks for sharing at our Shine on Fridays party!
Aww he looks very happy
Oh my gosh! How cute is that. I’m going to add it to my pinterest board!
I love this idea. My daughter has a billion stuffed animals I am not allowed to get rid of so hopefully she will let me know give this a go!
Cute!!! thank you for sharing at uncommon!
bonnie;)