Felt Craft: Sealing the Body of a Felt Lady Bug

Video Transcript

"Right now our ladybug is full with our rice, again you can use beans. You just want to use something that's going to give it a little weight. You want to pinch the sides of that and make sure it's nice and filled out. You want it to be good and fat. So we've got all the excess rice tucked in and we've got our opening. So you're going to want to hold your ladybug in one hand pulling the flaps open, and again with your glue gun or your epoxy glue we want to make sure that we seal this very well. So we're going to start at your corner, and on the side that's down on your hand start doing a line of glue on the outside. We're going to continue all the way around to the tip of the head and then back down to your other corner. There is no such thing as too much glue on there because we definitely don't want this to come open. And then start pinching together your seams with your fingers. Come around. You might get a little glue on you, but it's great because you can pull it right off and the hair or the felt will come with it so you're not going to mess anything up. Just continue to pinch. Give it a good pinch all the way around. We don't want any of that rice coming out. Then you're going to flip him back over and lay him down and you're going to notice you have a great ladybug. His wings will stand up because he's nice and fat, and he's ready to go."