Lost Tooth Pillow

From DLTK’s Crafts for Kids
www.dltk-kids.com

The project requires either sewing or hot glue skills. A child of age 8 or so could do the project with adult supervision. Younger children can help stuff the project and would love to receive it as a gift from an older sibling, parent or grandparent.
Materials:

• two pieces of white felt (tooth and hands)
• one scrap of black felt (mouth)
• one scrap of felt in another color (pocket) I used blue felt for the pocket in my photo
• two wiggly eyes ( For young children either sew or draw on eyes)
• small piece of velcro
• hot glue gun OR sewing machine OR needle and thread (adult supervision is required)
• pillow stuffing OR cotton balls OR toilet paper OR rice
• scissors
• scotch tape

Directions:

• Print out the templates (download template here)
• Cut out the template pieces
• Scotch tape the tooth template to one of the pieces of felt.
• Cut the tooth shape from the felt
• I scotch tape templates onto felt instead of pinning them as I find it easier… it doesn’t “buckle” as much. It’s very easy to just pull any tape off the felt after cutting
• Make sure you scotch tape liberally!
• Repeat with the second piece of felt.
• Scotch tape the hands to the leftover white felt and cut out
• Scotch tape the mouth to the black felt and cut out the shape
• Scotch tape the pocket to the other color of felt and cut out (the pocket is a long rectangle with triangle attached… it’s on the second template)
• Put a line of glue on the sides of the pocket and fold up (or stitch the pocket)
• Glue or sew the piece of velcro onto the triangle and where the triangle meets the pocket so the pocket will hold shut when the tooth is inside.
• Glue or sew the mouth, pocket, arms and eyes onto one of the tooth pieces (you can do this at the end after stuffing if you prefer).
• Put the two tooth pieces together and either sew them or hot glue them, leaving a space at the top to add stuffing. Leave the face showing (we won’t be turning this project inside out)_
• If you’re hot gluing, do a 2 to 4 inch section at a time (so the glue doesn’t harden on you).
• Stuff the tooth with pillow stuffing, cotton balls or even crumpled up toilet paper. Make sure to push it down into the bottom_
• Hot glue or sew the opening of the tooth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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