Making a weighted stuffed animal

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Hey everyone, I'm going to be making a weighted stuffed animal! This is my first time attempting something like this, but I want to give it a try.

I have this really cute stuffed elephant:



....And I'm going to order a bunch of plastic pellets online, and use them to fill up her tummy and all four feet! I have found that I really like having something heavy-ish sitting on my lap, like when I'm in a car or something (usually I hold my shoulder bag on my lap; it tends to be pretty heavy cuz of all the comfort items I carry ), and a weighted stuffed animal like some folks with SPD and ADHD have might be soothing to me....kinda like the "Gentle Geckos" you sometimes see at autism conferences.

What do you guys think? Any ideas, suggestions? You think I should put some pellets in the head, trunk, or bottom, too?

Cute elephant, great idea . A ball of magnetic (loose) beads in each of the feet might add more weight and other alternative health benefits too.

A Ziplock bag of clean, unused sandbox sand in the tummy. I'm making a goose that I've got some sand for, although I'm making mine to be a door-stop, but your use is something I might try with it too.

Speaking of door-stop animals that could be used as weighted comfort items, you could also buy one of those to use.

Aww... it's so adorable! I wish I was as talented as you!

That's such a good idea!

Do you remember those little geckos and frogs they used to make that were stuffed with sand? I loved biting those and squishing them between my fingers to feel the grains grinding together.

When I made my weighted blanket, I used smooth pebbles instead of the plastic pellets. They were cheaper for the weight I wanted out of the blanket. And they make a nice sound.

For a stuffed animal, marbles might be nice too. They'd make a nice tactile feel (to me anyway) and a nice sound.

I want to make one, too!

For now I just hold my bag of stuff in my lap.

That's an adorable elephant, and a neat idea. Let us know how it goes!

SO CUTE!! !!

I know someone who makes them professionally and they use river rocks to fill them and weight them. They had tried a bunch of different things to weight them and they say that works best. They rocks are put in cloth bags and then put into the animal that they cut into and take some of the stuffing out of. That way the animal can be machine wash and dried when you take the rocks out. I think they add a zipper as well for easy fill and take out of the rocks. And that way you can also easily change the weight.

Good luck. Let us know how it goes.