How to Stuff a Teddy Bear

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Then you want to get the stuffing and stuff the back. Now just take small waded of stuffing. Don't try to stuff to much in there at once and you work on the extremities I guess stuffing the ears first and then the hands. Then last we would stuff the head and the center of the body. So you want to work with your thumb and push into the ears until it is as thick as you want. Just use small clumps at a time. If push a big clump in there all at once and try to jam it up you will not fill those ears. You will not fill the hands they would be soft on the ends. So you want to get little clumps, fill the small area first and then the bigger areas later. So work our way around, we would stuff this arm like that. You just take a bunch and stuff it in with your thumb. We would stuff the other arm and if you just see we are stuffing it and squeezing it occasionly to see how firm it is. If you like your stuffed animals to be very very firm then you can jam a lot in there. If you like it a little softer you just pull a little bit out until you like the way it feels. You just want to fill the ears first before we fill the head. So we put a clump in there, little clumps at a time. Stuff those ears and now we would stuff this section the heads and the body and we would sew up the hole. It is up to you how firm you want to stuff the bear if you like a squishy sloppy bear that is fine or you can have a little bit firmer bear. This is what it looks like and we would just take a little bit of needle and thread and we would sew up the back. "