Pillow Pal
Do your grandchildren love stuffed animals? If so, here’s a fun idea of a little something that you could make and give to a grandchild.
Now, I’m assuming that you can sew a simple straight line. Nothing fancy. Just plain straight stitching. Can you do that? Good.
The idea is to sew a pocket on a pillowcase where a small stuffed animal can ’sleep’ while your grandchild sleeps.
Get a pillowcase and sew some matching material on the open end to extend it in length. On the extension, sew on a pocket in a contrasting fabric pattern that is big enough to hold a small stuffed animal.
Here’s a picture to show you what the finished pillowcase will look like.
You can give the stuffed animal and pillowcase to a grandchild as a birthday present, a Christmas present, a Buzzard’s Day present (yes, folks, that’s a real holiday — on March 15), or a just-because-I-love-you present.
If your grandchild is old enough (I’d say around eight years old or so), you could spend time together picking out material and sewing the pillowcase pocket.
Then, you can have a sleepover party with your grandchild, her pocket pal, you, and Grandpa — as long as Grandpa doesn’t snore too bad!
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Maybe I need one of those instead of getting a kitten.
I had already decided to make a pillowcase for each grandchild’s birthday this year along with a new pillow. Each will reflect the intrest of the child and will have a contrast cuff and a one inch accent between the cuff and the case. I just finished a real cute one for Drexton that has a sports print with colored edges. The addition of the pocket is great. It could double as a story book holdder or be tooth fairy pillow pocket in time of need (makes it easier to find the tooth and leave the coin).
I love this! Mikayla is always loosing her stuffed animal before she makes it to sleep and calling me in there to find it.
And using it for the tooth fairy is an awesome idea, Denise!
It just amazes me the levels of creativity out there! Make sure you check out my latest blog post about the mailboxes I made for my grandbabies…something they can check to see what treat is there when the flag is up when they visit. Can’t wait to see how it works!
Keep finding these ideas! They’re wonderful!
Julianne, a kitten is nice. Except they grow up to be cats.
Denise, you are always one step ahead of me in what you do with your grandchildren!!! Good idea to use the pocket to hold a tooth for the tooth fairy.
Kathy, I absolutely LOVE your little mailboxes! You are so creative!