Need Toy Patterns

[Sue89]

My sister and I are looking for patterns for a quick and easy to make children's toy. We're looking to make about a dozen for a charity that will send them to a school in Trinidad (I guess they would be elementary school age). Does anyone have a favorite pattern that isn't too complicated?

[crochetfun]

http://www.sarahanns.com/crochetworks/cwhome.html

I have not done these but they don't seem to be overly difficult:)

[shelain22]

do a search for yays, not long ago someone posted a website that wa sspecifically for toys, but in the meantime, here are some that I have earmarked....

gient panda
http://bhg.com/bhg/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/GreatGifts_GiantPanda_09172003.xml&catref=cat840009

fireman bear
http://www.freepatterns.com/fp_pdfs/Other/Crochet/Fireman_Bear.pdf

snoozy bear
http://www.freepatterns.com/fp_pdfs/Other/Crochet/Snoozy_Puppy.pdf

[Empress Busy Bee]

Lots here:


http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/toys.php

[aglarannaelf]

I am in the process of making a website that archives it here (http://www.**********************/cr). It's by no means finished, but it'll give you a little bit of a start.

[Sue89]

Thanks, everyone. I should have mentioned that I had already searched all the usual free pattern sites. What I was hoping was that someone could give me a heads-up on which of those patterns would be the easiest and quickest (not too much embroidering of features, etc.) for not-so-advanced crocheters.

Jen, your website is a great idea. That round bear pillow is adorable. I'm going to mail the link to my sister to see what she likes.

[CraftyShannon]

Have you tried looking on the Bernat site? I haven't really studied the patterns, but I saw a duck and a teddy bear on free baby patterns section. The duck looks esepcailly easy, just being basically the shape of the duck and then embroidering the eyes and adding a ribbon. Maybe you could do something like that but make it bigger for whatever age group you need it for.

[aglarannaelf]

Thanks, everyone. I should have mentioned that I had already searched all the usual free pattern sites. What I was hoping was that someone could give me a heads-up on which of those patterns would be the easiest and quickest (not too much embroidering of features, etc.) for not-so-advanced crocheters.

Jen, your website is a great idea. That round bear pillow is adorable. I'm going to mail the link to my sister to see what she likes.

I decided to make the site when I went in search of stuffed animal patterns and couldn't find a decent links site for a large amount of them, so people like us could find things easily! :)

[EugeneClarence]

I make toys for charity all the time. There are not many simple toy patterns. Both boys and girls seem to love bags so I usually try to make a simple bag and fill it with either small crocheted items (listed below) or stickers, crayons, etc., that I can buy inexpensively. Dot's Little Ditty Bag is one of the best patterns to come along in a while for this purpose.

Dot’s Little Ditty Bag

http://bythehook.blogdrive.com/archive/163.html (http://bythehook.blogdrive.com/archive/163.html)



Balls & Hacky Sacks

http://www.jpfun.com/patterns/13kids/jpfhackysac1.shtml (http://www.jpfun.com/patterns/13kids/jpfhackysac1.shtml)

http://home.swbell.net/amjack/hackytri.htm (http://home.swbell.net/amjack/hackytri.htm)

(picture for above pattern is here) http://home.swbell.net/amjack/free.htm (http://home.swbell.net/amjack/free.htm)

http://www.craftdesigns4you.com/freecrochetball.htm (http://www.craftdesigns4you.com/freecrochetball.htm)



Pocket Toys

http://tinyurl.com/dj3nw (http://tinyurl.com/dj3nw)

http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/muggins.html (http://www.bevscountrycottage.com/muggins.html)



Bookmarks

http://homepage.mac.com/coxsalida/Personal6.html (http://homepage.mac.com/coxsalida/Personal6.html)

http://www.freecraftunlimited.com/bookworm.html (http://www.freecraftunlimited.com/bookworm.html)



Jump Rope

http://hometown.aol.com/lffunt/fiestajr.htm (http://hometown.aol.com/lffunt/fiestajr.htm)



Finger Puppets

http://www.fjsmjs.com/Mary/tubbypuppets.htm (http://www.fjsmjs.com/Mary/tubbypuppets.htm)

http://home.wideopenwest.com/~sag55/kids.html (http://home.wideopenwest.com/~sag55/kids.html)

EugeneClarence

[Sue89]

Thanks, CraftyShannon and EugeneClarence. I'll look into those links as well. I like the idea of a bag to fill with small items. I have a lot of patterns for bags i could choose from.