How to Make a Baby Crinkle Toy

In this post, I’m sharing a sewing tutorial on how to make a baby crinkle toy. This tutorial is fairly simple and easy to whip together in an hour or less. This handmade baby toy would make the perfect baby shower gift!

Why You’ll Love This Easy Sewing Tutorial on How to Make a Baby Crinkle Toy

Handmade gifts spark so much joy. This adorable, handmade, baby crinkle toy is the perfect sewing project if you’re expecting a little one or if you’re needing a precious baby shower gift.

Easily, whip this little toy up in under an hour and you’ll love the end result!

Surprisingly, I found most of my supplies at Walmart and Amazon which I will link below.

Tips For Sewing a Baby Crinkle Toy

• You will want to select several styles/colors of ribbons for your toy. I chose a ric rac ribbon, grosgrain, and satin. All of mine I purchased at Walmart. I even layered two different ribbons for more design aspect.
• Make sure to purchase crinkle paper for your toy. I could only find it online here.
• I also purchased a fleece fabric baby blanket from Walmart for my back fabric. It was much cheaper in my opinion.
• Prewash and dry all fabrics before starting your project.

What You Will Need

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• sewing machine
• sewing scissors
• iron
• sewing pins
• sewing guage
• multiple ribbons of choice (I used four different ones)
• two fabrics (one print, one solid)
• fleece, minky, soft material for backing of toy
• crinkle paper

How to Make a Baby Crinkle Toy

You can also find more of my beginner friendly sewing projects here.

Begin by washing and drying all fabrics and presssing them with a hot iron.

Then cut a 4in x 12in strip of each of your print and solid fabrics. Don’t cut your backing fabric yet.

Once those two are cut, take them over to your sewing machine and sew all the way down using the edge of the pressser foot as your guide for width.

Next, cut two 3 1/2in wide pieces from your sewn strip. Then piece them together by pinning the edges to each other creating a quilt block layout. Then sew with the edge of your presser foot as your guide, each strip together.

Here is what it should look like:

Then use this block as your pattern to cut out a piece of crinkle paper and your backing fabric.

Now, we are going to cut out the ribbons. I winged it on the size, just cutting what I thought I would like for the ribbon size for my toy. I think I did 12 – 3 1/2in pieces. If you layer ribbons like I did you will need a few extra.

Once you get those cut out, you will then pin them laying into the center of your “quilt” block print side up. I personally took mine to the sewing machine and sewed each ribbon onto my block before piecing everything togther. It made it so much easier to sew the layers and turn inside out.

Next, place your backing fabric on top of the ribbons and print fabric block, then add your piece of crinkle paper on top of that. You’ll then sew all the way arounf your block with a 1/2in seam. Leaving a small opening to turn your toy inside out. Trim edges and corners before reversing.

Lastly, turn the toy inside out and pin opening shut. Sew a tiny seam all the way around the toy to seal the opening and outline the toy.

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