How to Make a Bear Out of a Sock
Reuse old and mismatched tube socks to make rice-filled teddy bears. This is an easy project, one suitable for children and adults of all ages. Once you learn the basic premise behind making a sock teddy bear, you can experiment with different designs, animals, fillings, fabrics and accessories.
Things You'll Need
- Rice
- Rubber bands
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun
- Wiggly eyes
- Black pom-pom
- Brown felt
- White felt
Instructions
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Fill three-quarters of a sock with rice.
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Tie the top of the sock tightly with a rubber band, about an inch above the rice.
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Cut the remaining top piece of the sock off.
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Turn the sock upside-down so the top is sitting on your work surface.
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Tie a rubber band tightly around the center of the sock, making the section from the toe to the rubber band slightly smaller. The smaller half will be your bear's head.
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Use a hot glue gun to glue wiggly eyes on the bear's face.
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Hot-glue a black pom-pom in the middle of the bear's face for his nose.
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Cut a mouth shape out of brown felt, and hot-glue it under the bear's nose.
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Cut two long ovals out of white felt, and hot-glue them to the bear's neck. These will be the arms.
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Make the ears. Cut two circles out of white felt and two slightly smaller circles out of brown felt. Glue a brown circle in the middle of each white circle, and hot-glue them to the top of the bear's head.
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Make the bear's feet. Cut two more circles out of white felt, slightly larger than the circles you made for the bear's ears; two ovals out of brown felt, about half the size of the circles; and eight tiny circles out of brown felt. Hot-glue a brown oval near the bottom of each white circle, hot-glue four tiny circles in a slight arch just above each of the brown ovals, then hot-glue each foot to the front of the bear's stomach.
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