Bean bags step by step

I will apologize ahead of time to anyone who actually sews out there, this is not the best job but I googled lots to figure out how to do these :) This one tonight took me 20 minutes to make from choosing fabric to final product (with taking pictures). You do not have to put a letter on them you could just do plain bean bags the young kids don't even notice the letters but the older ones have been having tons of fun spelling with them. I used an inside bean bag so I would know for sure no beans would escape since I have young children playing with them. I made these to help Alex with spelling and to introduce Wyatt to letters. I think they will be a fun learning tool for the boys. 

Supplies I used to make the bean bags, my sewing machine (you can do it by hand too but I am lazy), white navy beans, muslin, 2 different materials to use for the bean bag and letter, scissors, a rotary cutter and mat, measuring cup, a cut out of a letter.

I cut the muslin (for the inside bean bag) into 4X4 squares and the fabric for the outside of the bean bag was cut into 5X5 squares.

I traced the letter on the back side of the material and cut it out.

I pinned the letter onto the front of the bean bag (you can also use iron on backing to keep the letter on the material while you sew) then sewed the letter on the front of the bean bag.

I sewed the inside bean bag and left a hole to put the beans in.

added a 1/4 cup of white navy beans then sewed the top shut.

Put together the front and back of the bean bag with good sides facing each other then sew around the edges leaving a hole to put the inside bean bag in.

Turn the outside of the bean bag right side out and add the inside bean bag.

Sew the outside edges and the bean bag is done :)

I hope you enjoy. I am new to sewing and had no problem at all making 33 of these. I tried to have all the bean bags have some kind of different texture to them. I used so many different materials some were minky, cotton, corduroy, pleather, flannel, fleece, and more but I don't remember them all .. lol

I would love to do a whole set with the letters coordinating with the fabric such as C is for cat with cats on the material or D is for dog. I have a couple done in this set and hope to add some more to it after Christmas.

Finished bean bags

I am so excited that I finished a whole set. I did 32 because I doubled up some letters. These were so easy to make and I am going to post step by steps tomorrow.

This is my finished set :)

The kids have been playing with these like crazy. The older ones have been spelling all kinds of words and Wyatt likes to throw them into his drum.

We went to the Christmas parade today and it was so cold that I didn't even think of bringing out the camera. We had our first snow flakes today during the parade :) The only 2 days of the year I absolutely love snow is the Christmas parade and Christmas day.

Bean bags :)

Well I started Wyatt's bean bags! It has been a busy week with Mike home but I managed to spend a good chunk of time today sewing and creating :) I have finished 11 of the 32 I plan to make and it has been so much fun! I am going to add photos and instructions on how I did these. Hopefully I will have them all done by the weekend :)

Arrrgggg ... Blogspot is not letting me upload photos. I can just explain how I made them for now. I am making bean bags all out of different material (colors and textures) with the letters of the alphabet on them. I am cutting out the letters and it is a lot of work but so much fun! Alex has been liking the bean bags more than Wyatt but he was trying to spell his name with them ( well he was lining them up ..lol)

We did so many fun crafts and things this weekend and of course I didn't take any pictures :( Wyatt tried scissors for the first time and he is turning into a pro with all types of glue. We made Christmas cards, baked some goodies, had fun picking out material for the bean bags, had even more fun trying to fill the bean bags with beans :), Wyatt learned how to count to 5 and lots of coloring.

I have 3 different blog posts almost ready to post I just need to find the time to finish writing them :) It is a lot harder to get on here as much with Mike home.

I got pictures on :) I have done quite a few more now but these were the first 11.