How to sew a soft cube
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This document provides instructions for sewing a soft cube that can be used to teach counting or spelling to children. The instructions specify cutting 6 squares of fabric between 4-5 inches, arranging them in the desired pattern, pinning and sewing them together leaving one side open, turning it inside out, filling it with acrylic or other material, and then hand stitching the remaining side closed to hide the stitches. Making multiple cubes with numbers or letters can help older kids learn math and spelling concepts through interactive play.
How to sew a soft cube
- 1. How to sew a soft cube An easy, fun sewing project.
- 2. I used the same fabrics from the soft ball project, so both ball and cube together make a beautiful set. I recommend making the cube with few colors of fabric, like in the soft ball project - this way it will be colorful and fun. If you have some time, you can make few of those and on each one make an application of a number or a letter - this will fit bigger kids who will be happy to spell out words with cubes or to learn to count.
- 3. Things you will need: • A 28*28 inch piece of fabric (about 70*70 cm) - several colors preferable • Needle and thread (even if you are using a sewing machine) • Acrylic or any other preferable filling • Scissors • Pins • Sewing machine - optional but recommended
- 4. I suggest reading this guide completely before starting the project. Now that you have everything we can start: Cut 6 squares of fabric, each square size should be 4*4 inch (10*10 cm). If you want your cube to be bigger - you'll need more fabric than mentioned above. Make sure the pieces are the same size - It is not critical on the millimeter, but don't make one 4*4 and the other 4*5...
- 5. After you cut 6 squares, arrange them the way you want them to be, in the sketch - same colors represent squares that will be one in front of the other:
- 6. When you chose your positioning, you can pin all the pieces together and sew them. Don't forget! you'll need to leave one side a little open - so you can turn the cube inside out and fill it.
- 7. Now that you have a cube that is open a little bit in one side, you can turn it inside out and fill it with some acrylic (or any other filling you'd like). The amount of the filling you will put is going to make the difference on how hard the cube will be. The more filling the harder. Try different amount of filling before you close the cube.
- 8. When you've decided how much filling you want your cube to have, you will have to stitch it by hand. You can use the sewing machine, but then the stitches will be seen. Sewing by hand will allow you to make hidden stitches.