How To Make A Weighted Stuffed Animal

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How to make a weighted stuffed animal. Here is what you will need to create your own weighted stuffed animal. This can be achieved by filling the plush with any type of weighted filling like rice plastic pellets glass beads and so on. How to Make a DIY Weighted Teddy Bear.

Find a small stuffed animal toy and prepare scissors a sewing kit and your choice of heavy ish filling material. It should take you less than an hour to complete this and its fun to get the kids involved. Those were stuffed into his body instead of regular stuffing.

Once you get a small amount of the bag in there begin to push some of the the filling in through the hole into the part of the bag thats inside the animal. We chose to get our teddy bear from Build-A-Bear to make stitching up afterwards easy. The fur makes sewing slow and hard to see whether or not you are sewing straight.

A good rule of thumb recommended by therapists is to use a weighted lap animal or pad thats around 5 of your body weight. Of this list of free stuffed animal patterns this one has the most pieces to cut and sew but the yoyos are the same thing repeated so. This is how you can insert such a large beanbag without making a very large opening Sorry dude.

Like the name implies a weighted stuffed animal is a stuffed animal with weight added to it. For this animal I am using poly beads which can be found at most craft stores. Touch fiddle and stroke Moon Pals floppy gradient ears for an enriching multi-sensory experience.

The yoyos allow it to be moved and positioned in all sorts of fun ways. Choose your teddy bear or stuffed animal. Poly beads can simply be added directly into the stuffed animal.