Homemade Toys - Make Your Own Baby Toys

Making homemade toys for baby is incredibly fun and addictive. Few baby crafts are more rewarding than handmade toys. Once you see a child play with and enjoy something you personally made you won't be able to stop! Babies don't need fancy toys with batteries and sounds and flashing lights and once you realize this, the world of toy making suddenly opens with all its crafty goodness.

From sewing projects to woodworking to felt and more, enjoy these free toy making tutorials and patterns! There is something for every skill set here, from beginners to crafty masters.

Wooden Homemade Birdie Toy Tutorial - Everyone must try their hand at making wooden toys. Don't be afraid of woodworking! If you can operate a sewing machine you can make wooden toys. Here are complete instructions and a free pattern for making a wooden birdie toy using either a scroll saw or a handheld coping saw. Do you drool over expensive wooden toys? Make your own!

Wooden Puzzle Instructions - Simple wooden puzzles are easy for the novice woodworker and make great learning toys for children too. Complete instructions with a photo tutorial from start to finish. Anyone can make a puzzle like this, the only problem is being able to stop making them!

Wooden Memory Tile Tutorial - An easy wooden toy project even for non-woodworkers! Memory tiles are great learning toys for colors, vocabulary building, numbers and more. Younger babies love sorting them and looking at the images and they'll last a lot longer than ones made of paper. These are simple to make, honest!

Make Wooden Building Blocks - Now that you've followed some of the other wooden toy tutorials you're bound to have some scrap wood! Make a lovely set of blocks out of it very easily. You can also source scrap wood for cheap from your local lumberyard and you can build an expensive heirloom quality set for next to nothing.

Cardboard Playhouse Plans - No need to buy a huge plastic playhouse, make a sturdy one out of cardboard instead! With a little duct tape and some paint it will turn into something so stylish you'll want to keep in in the livingroom. Complete photo tutorial and plans for making an adorable playhouse.

Recycled Wallpaper Blocks - Have some packaging boxes lying around? Does your baby like to play with boxes but you hate the idea of her playroom littered with trash? Turn trash into toys with this simple tutorial for making sturdy and lightweight blocks out of product packaging and wallpaper!

Doll Pattern & Instructions - Use this free doll pattern PDF and follow the detailed photo instructions to create a classic rag doll with modern fabrics! Such an easy project that you'll want to do again and again. Perfect for beginning sewers or anyone wanting to open the door to doll making. This is the doll project to start with and you'll soon learn that you don't even need a pattern.

Felted Sweater Mouse Puppet - An easy project for creating an adorable mouse puppet out of a felted wool sweater. Felting wool sweaters is a great way to upcycle thrift store finds, turning them into handmade baby toys! Complete pattern and instructions.

Kool-Aid Dyed Play Silks - Did you know you can dye play silks with Kool-Aid or food coloring and that you can find silks for just a few dollars? Give your child a basket full of colorful silks and be amazed at the many ways they will use them in imaginative play. Full easy dyeing instructions.

Soft Blocks Sewing Tutorial - Sew some cute soft fleece or felt blocks easily! Soft blocks are ideal homemade toys for baby because they are easy to clutch and safe when thrown. Stackable and textural, they make excellent learning toys.

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