Halloween Monster Plushie Rag Doll

Gather some colourful felts and craft this super cute monster plushie! This could be a great gift for this Halloween. This Halloween Monster is perfect as a Halloween gift or as a Halloween decoration too.

Supplies:
1. Felt
2. Hotglue gun
3. Scissors
4. Pencil – to trace patterns
5. Stuffing

Step-1: Remember to choose bright colors for this plushie. In this picture you can see the basic pattern of the plush I made. It includes- body, legs, hands, ears. You will need 2 pieces of patterns for each leg, hand and the body.

Step-2: For the face details I used black and white felts to create the eyes, nose, mouth and teeth. Use hotglue gun to attach the face details on their places, on the front pattern of the body.

Step-3: Glue the orange ear piece on the top of the green ear piece and then slightly fold a side to create the ear for the plush. Attach the ear on the back side of the front body piece.

Step-4: Use white felt to cut out 12 triangular nail patterns and attach 3 nails on 2 leg and 2 hand patterns as shown in the picture. Place the other piece of the hands and legs on the top of the nail glued pieces. Use hot glue gun to attach both pieces together. This means that the nails need to be glued in between the 2 pieces of each part (hands and legs).

Step-5: Glue the hands and legs with the body piece for the back side of the plush. Now take the front piece with face details and place it on the top of the back piece. Carefully attach the sides of the front and back body pieces but don’t forget to keep a small open end for stuffing.

Step-6: Insert wool or scrap fabric through the open end of the plush. After you’re done filling the plush use hotglue gun to close the open end and secure the stuffing.

You can add more details if you wish to.

Happy crafting!

I’ve done embroidery on paper before and it’s a lot of fun. You can use a needle to punch out a particular shape to stitch, or my favorite thing is to take a copy of an old photograph or a page from a magazine and add stitched details to the original picture.

One thing I haven’t tried but would also be fun to do is cross stitching on paper.

This is a technique that requires a fair amount of preparation because you need to find a pattern you can easily transfer and print it at actual size, then use the pattern itself to help you decide where to put the holes in your paper. And then after all that you can do your stitching.

It’s a pretty straightforward process, but Crewel Ghoul has a great tutorial that walks you through how to do it step by step. It even includes a sample pattern you can print out and try for practice.

The post also has tips for starting and finishing your threads so that the back looks as neat as it can, if that’s something that’s important to you. (When I have done embroidery on paper I usually just tape the thread end to the back. If the back were going to show I’d probably just cover it with more paper.)

Stitching on paper is a fun way to make bookmarks or greeting cards, but you also need to make sure your paper is thick enough to support the holes you’ll be making in it. This post has a good rundown of materials you’ll need and what kind of paper is best. She used watercolor paper but I’ve used card stock and scrapbook paper that was a little thicker than the average printer paper.

You can always test a little on the paper you’re considering to make sure it will stand up to the project.

Check out the post, which includes a video, over at Crewel Ghoul for more tips for cross stitching on paper. Is this something you’ve tried before? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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