I had to share a picture of what my daughter made for me for Mother’s Day. You might already know that I really like Bluebirds. She sewed me a stuffed Bluebird softie for me to keep. Isn’t that so sweet. I love it!

How To | Sew a Softie

Supplies:

• Muslin
• Felt
• Pencil
• Sewing Straight Pins
• Fabric Markers
• Fabric Scissors
• Needle
• Embroidery Thread
• Poly-fil Stuffing

How To:

1. Carefully draw your design in pencil on your piece of muslin.
2. Use fabric markers to color in your design.
3. Pin your piece of muslin to a coordinating piece of felt.
4. Cut out around your drawing, cutting through the muslin and felt at the same time.
5. Keep your pieces pinned together.
6. Thread your needle with embroidery floss and sew a whip stitch around your softie. Leave an opening so you can fill it with stuffing. Remove pins as you go.
7. When you are almost done sewing, stuff it with stuffing. Continue sewing the rest of the softie closed. Trim thread.
8. Wrap in pretty paper and give to a friend or your mom!

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During Charlie’s nap Lorelei and Allan came up with the idea to make the play box into a puppet stage. It really made me laugh when I came to watch their puppet show. Lorelei has two puppets up, a Prince and a Princess, and Allan’s puppet (far left) is the dragon. It was too funny to hear what they were making their puppets say. What great imaginations they have. It was a fun activity for them to do on their own without my help.

Allan created a really great Stegosaurus puppet with pointy scales all the way down the back. I have yet to get a picture of it, but it showed so much creativity. Lorelei was creating beautiful rainbow-inspired princess puppets. When creating puppets anything goes. They can glue, tape or draw anything they want on their puppet, the only thing holding them back is seeing what other supplies I will let them use! I found crepe paper, buttons, feathers and colored construction paper for them to use.

Later when Steve arrived home he said, “I don’t think we should waste paper bags like that.” I gave him the evil eye…

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