I decided that I didn't want to give lolly bags for favours at Daniels party. So, I embarked on the journey of making these darling bean bag parcels for the kids with a card attached with Bean bag challenges. It didn't cost ver much to make, except in time of course.
I paced myself making all 38 of them! So here is a brief tutorial in case you want to do some yourself at home. I appologise for the poor lighting in some of the photos....the light in the room where I was sewing wasn't very bright.
I paced myself making all 38 of them! So here is a brief tutorial in case you want to do some yourself at home. I appologise for the poor lighting in some of the photos....the light in the room where I was sewing wasn't very bright.
I made a template out of cardboard and it measured 15cmx30cm. I decided to do it this way (rather than two 15cmx15cm squares) to lower the cutting needed.
Fold the material in half (make sure the pattern is inside) and iron flat.
This bean bag will be sewn twice which will give it extra strength. Place the sewing material on the machine with the folded side to the left. Start sewing from the opposite side to the fold about 2/3 way down.
Make sure you reverse stitch the seam at this point to reinforce. This is important as you will be turning the bean bag inside out on this seam, so it will weaken if you forget this step.
Sew right to the edge and leaving the needle in, turn the corners untill you get back to the side you started on.
When you get back to the starting side sew down leaving a gap from the starting seam and also reverese sew over that seam too. Cut the thread.
Cut the corners off the square. This will eliminate bulk when turning inside out.
Gently turn the bean bag insideout (right side out lol).
I used a chopstick to push out the corners so it is square. Then iron it flat again.Then sew around the three closed sides. Then I placed a funnel in the hole and filled the bean bag about 3/4 full with rice or dried beans. Place 2-3 pins to stop the rice faling out and also to steady the seam. Sew up the last side and DONE!!! {in my case repeat x40 hehehe}. The end result?????
TAAA-DAAA!
I bundled up bean bags in to lots of 2 per kid and then tied it up with ribbon. 
I also printed off a card entitled 'Bean Bag Challenges' and pop it in the bundle giving parents and kids ideas and games to play with the bean bags.
That's awesome! I might have to steal that idea for Eli's birthday in a few weeks time. Any chance you can email me the bean bag challenges?
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