These chicken bean bags are just about the cutest things that you can make with your sewing machine. Use them as pin cushions, bean bags or even rice packs! This post contains an affiliate link.
Ruby loves chickens. For some reason there are chickens all over the place in Yuba City. Especially in certain intersections and parking lots. Every time we go to Toys R Us or Winco we see chickens walking by our truck. She loves that. Her favorite song is “The Chicken Dance.” There aren’t any words, but she loves the actions and dance. I thought it would be fun to make her a chicken softie, but fell in love with this chicken bean bag instead. She loves it too. Her little chicken goes everywhere with us. Grocery shopping, church, on her tricycle, and in her bed. Since these bags take about 10 minutes to make, I decided to make a few more.
The sewing inspiration came from Anjie’s Blog. Red Ted Art saw the original and created some photo instructions. Ours are slightly larger than the original and since neither one came with a printable pattern, I quickly drew one to make it easier to keep them uniform when making them by the dozen, ha!
You can download it here: Little Chicken Bean Bag PDF
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Little Chicken Bean Bags
Supplies:
1: Basically, you just lay out the pattern pieces in the upper right corner of the long rectangle of fabric.
2: Bring the bottom of the fabric to the top with the fold along the bottom. Pin to keep beak and details in place. Stitch top and right side, leaving left side open.
3: Turn right side out. Add an eye. You can hand sew this or use a sharpie pen like we did. Very gently so that it doesn’t bleed.
4: Fill 1/3 with fiber fill and 1/3 with rice or small beans. Leave the rest open to allow room to close the bottom.
5: To turn your bean bag into a pyramid shaped one vs. a flat square, line up your seams so that the side seam lies flat as the back of the chicken. The front seam where the beak is and the back seam will line up and it will turn into the pyramid shape. Turn under raw edges and pin closed.
Hand stitch to close.
This little orange one is my favorite. Ruby’s too.
I’m thinking that this little pattern would make a great base for so many fun animal bean bags! A puppy, a cat, or even a pig.
Can you think of any others? What a fun little party favor or stocking stuffer, or homemade birthday gift!
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Lisa Foust says
November 14, 2013 at 7:40 pmI think Lexi might need a couple of these. They are ADORABLE!
Brandy says
November 14, 2013 at 9:29 pmShe does! And they are so easy! 🙂
Debbie Rines says
November 15, 2013 at 8:26 amSorry, but the pdf file will not open. It only shows the title.
Love the chicks.
Debbie
Brandy says
November 15, 2013 at 8:50 amI revised the settings, if it still doesn’t work let me know! It works from my computer. Thanks for letting me know!
Dani @ See Hubby Cook says
November 23, 2013 at 5:49 amThese are so adorable!!
Brandy says
November 23, 2013 at 6:41 pmThanks Dani! I think I need an excuse to make more, they are so easy and fun!
Janet says
December 4, 2013 at 12:02 pmSuper cute but could not download PDF 🙁
Brandy says
December 4, 2013 at 12:28 pmHi Janet,
You aren’t the only one who has had issues downloading it. It’s so strange because I have it set to “public”. Would you mind clicking this link and letting me know what it does? I double checked the settings. It “should” open right up now. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1m2SR4aI1ThSWN1bTVEUG1Sdjg/edit?usp=sharing
pepdress says
January 6, 2015 at 12:26 amLooks very cute
karinregina says
January 16, 2015 at 5:53 amHermosas!
celia says
January 25, 2015 at 12:02 pmYou gotta love the internet. I have been making chicken bean bags for years. I’ve never made them this large and my take is a little different. I use golden beads and make legs – and i put on a tail using scraps of suede. Until this post I had never thought of adding the wattle.
fun!
Val Campbell says
February 25, 2015 at 7:54 pmThank you so much for this cute pattern! Mine turned out a little different (I call it “unique”) but still adorable. I know that I won’t be stopping at just one! 🙂
Brookey says
March 22, 2015 at 8:06 pmI’m hooked on making these little chickens! i checked out a few different tutorials before attempting and found yours to be the best one! they are so cute, and easy!
Brandy says
March 23, 2015 at 8:27 amThank you Brooke! They are so fun, right?!
Chris says
January 22, 2016 at 4:42 pmTHESE ARE SOoooo CUTE. I Love, love, love chickens too. Have them free ranging in my back yard I gotta make some of these for my sewing room. Thanks a bunch for posting this.
Carol says
March 6, 2016 at 6:01 amSooo Delighted to have just found your little chickens as ive been wanting to make these for a while but had no template for them. Thank you.
Monique Young says
September 3, 2016 at 6:17 pmHi there I was hoping to get the little chicken bean bag template emailed if possible. couldn’t get it to work
Brandy says
September 4, 2016 at 10:05 pmAbsolutely! I’ll email it to ya!
Ani says
December 4, 2016 at 12:18 amAwwww so nice bean bags!
Check my site http://www.beanbagbedwithblanket.com/
Ani says
December 4, 2016 at 12:20 amToo old post and m checking now…….shoo cute!
Ashlee says
November 3, 2018 at 4:39 pmI LOVE the chicken bean bags.
i am making one for my little brother for Christmas this year but i am just wondering what fabric you used?
cheers, ash
Brandy says
November 4, 2018 at 2:48 pmThank you Ashlee! I used a home decor fabric that was a little thicker because I liked the pattern, but you could definitely use a basic cotton!
Susan says
April 7, 2019 at 1:48 amI love these and the Yuba City chickens too!