I wanted to make a few gifts to give to my niece and nephew while I was visiting in America, and a friend gave me the idea of making sock monkeys out of really long knee socks. So when I was at Glastonbury I had a look around and picked up two striped pairs for the monkeys, then stitched and stuffed them by hand over the course of two evenings (one spent in the A&E waiting room!). I added some button eyes and packed these guys in my suitcase…
The kids absolutely loved their monkeys, though if anything they loved them a little too hard as some of the stitching came undone as they swung the living daylights out of them. Next time, I’ll forgo the A&E time-wasting and just stitch them by machine instead…
So if you’ve got kids around ages 4 and 5 that need gifts, I must say, sock monkeys certainly got two four thumbs up!