Felt Craft: Filling the Body of a Felt Lady Bug

Video Transcript

"Now we have our full body of our ladybug and we want to start to fill this, so we're going to come back to earlier where we left the mouth of the ladybug open, and pull that back. Again, just check your seams on the side that we glued earlier, make sure they're good and tight, you don't want that coming apart. You want to look inside your ladybug and make sure you can't see any light coming out of the space. Especially if you're using rice. And, if you have any questions about there being any open seams, you just want to take your glue, come to that seam, found one here. Put a small amount of glue and just pinch that shut again. Come back to your opening, check it out one more time, make sure that you don't have any little see through points so that none of our filling comes out. Then we're going to get your rice, or your beans, and your spoon. In that opening, we're going to start to spoon in your beans and your rice. And you want to get enough in there, let it fill to the bottom, so that it really starts to fill out your ladybug. You want him to look a little plump. That's going to give him his weight and make him mushy. Almost like a little teddy bear or beanbag. Let's get that good and full. Shake all the excess down in there. You're going to come back and lay down your ladybug and tuck in all the extra pieces."