"Soft toys and decorations for children"

Toys and decorative items for the children's room don't always have to be expensive. It's much more fun to be creative together with your children and realize your own ideas. Leftover scraps of fabric can be used in a variety of ways and even clothes that have been worn out and are no longer used are ideal for crafting. Today, let's take a look at some very different ideas for crafting with fabric.

On your marks, get crafting

Crafting with fabric not only creates pretty decorations, but also one or two toys. All you need is a wide variety of fabric scraps of any quality and pattern. See if you can find a T-shirt, an old pair of jeans or individual socks that are no longer needed. Equip yourself with scissors, a needle, glue, string and all kinds of pretty craft beads. pretty craft beads and you're ready to go!

Collect ideas for crafting with fabric

It's best to gather everything you can find and add enchanting craft materials such as beads to the fabric scraps, strings or small fabric stars to thread on. These are perfect for adding embellishments.

If you want to make toys out of fabric, you can of course create small stuffed animals, hand puppets and play rugs while crafting with the children. Of course, the little ones are always happy to help. However, it's not just toys that are created when fabric scraps are used, but also beautiful decorations for the children's room and other rooms.

Toys: two craft ideas for animals made from fabric

With the following two instructions for making toys, you can make great use of old fabric scraps. You can also use old buttons, crochet beads, lentil beads and a few strings. The children can give you a hand with these projects and make them together with you.

Homemade animals are a great gift for children

Making fantasy animals with fabric scraps

Let's start with fantasy animals. This is not only easy for very young children, but also gives them almost unlimited freedom to create an animal according to their own ideas. Let's start with a kind of snake:

1. Cut the fabric to a length of approximately 20 cm x 5 cm. It doesn't have to look that exact. It only serves as a guideline. The children are very welcome to take on this task themselves. Continue until you have cut at least 10 to 15 different fabrics. If you don't have any old scraps available, you can use Nuscheli in different colors.
2. Now lay the individual lengths of fabric overlapping each other so that each fabric is still clearly visible at the end. Now it's up to you as mom or dad to sew the ends of the fabrics together with a few stitches.
3. Now wrap the lengths of fabric together at a slight angle to form a roll. The two tapered ends are simply tucked in and secured with one or two stitches.
4. Now it is up to your child to decide where to attach the eyes. To do this, simply sew on two black lens beads.
5. To give the snake even more uniqueness, a few more crochet beads can be attached to the back for decoration.

Classic sock puppets for children

Disused socks can be found in every household and so the perfect crafting material is already at hand. We simply need socks, buttons or beads and a piece of cardboard. We also need scraps of fabric and string. Everything should be mixed in a nice and colorful way if possible.

Typical sock puppets as they might look when finished

1. Cut a piece of cardboard into an oval shape so that it is no wider than the sock and corresponds to the size of the future mouth.
2. Now use the cardboard to cut out the mouth. Use any scrap fabric for this.
3. Now insert the cardboard into the sock. Sew the previously cut mouth in the desired place. The cardboard prevents the sock from being accidentally sewn together.
4. Then remove the cardboard, fold it in the middle and insert it back into the sock. This makes it easy to open and close the mouth.
5. Now it is up to you to design the sock freely. Hair is created with the help of pretty string, old buttons become eyes and beads decorate the back. Let your imagination run wild.

Making decorations with fabric scraps

In addition to all the great toys, you can also make decorations for the children's room using discarded fabrics from your household. Here, too, we have two suggestions for you. We have opted for a vase and a tapestry. Both are great projects for combining old fabrics and new craft materials.

Great decorations can be made from fabric remnants

Designing vases with fabrics

All you need are old jars, empty bottles, fabric scraps, colorful string and beads of all kinds.

1. Lay out the fabrics that you want to wrap around the vase. It is very helpful if the fabric is not too thin. To add more color, cut the fabric into thin strips. An ideal task for the next generation.
2. Now simply wrap the lengths of fabric around the glass layer by layer, preferably slightly criss-crossed. Glue the ends with a little hot glue. Continue until you are happy with the result. If you don't have any fabric scraps to hand and want to finish the project with monochromatic muslins you can weave fine cords from string as a color accent, which you can also wrap around.

Tip: If you don't like it quite so colorful, you can also use a shade in different nuances.

3. Decorate the neck of the bottle or the top edge of the glass with individual beads. You can use both lentil beads and wooden beads in different colors. Simply attach them with a little hot glue and you have a unique vase for your next bouquet of flowers.

Colorful wall decorations made from fabric

Fabric scraps are also perfect as imaginative wall decorations. Especially for those for whom decorations can never be too colorful. For the last project, we are taking the shape of a sun as our inspiration. You can either use thick cardboard or thin craft wood. You will also need lots of fabric, beads and other decorative items.

You can also use fabric to make wall decorations

1. First draw the outline of the sun on the cardboard. You can either make the rays in the form of narrow triangles or simply in wide strips. Cut out this shape first.
2. Now the little ones can help too. Because now it's time to distribute scraps of fabric as they like. There are an incredible number of variations here. The simplest idea is to stick on as many fabrics as possible. For the more advanced, the sun can also be divided into individual themes or colors.
3. To embellish it, string a few chains with wooden beads and attach them to the lower sun rays. The result is a unique wall decoration made from fabrics, beads and cords. This is now best attached to the wall with power strips or nails.