How to make beanbags (from old tights and rice)

This is ridiculously simple. You don't even have to be really good at sewing.


What you need:

• One (clean!) pair of tights
• Two fistfuls of dried rice (or lentils)
• Pins
• One needle
• Thread (the same colour as the tights)
• Scissors

Step 1: Cut the toe off the tights. This will act as the bag.

Step 2: Turn inside-out and pin the open edges together.

Step 3: Sew these edges, apart from a gap (to allow enough room to fill with the dry mix).

Step 4: Turn the bag the correct way around (outside-in) and fill most of the way with the dried rice (leave a little bit of space so that the finished product can still be squished.

Step 5: Sew up the gap.

Alternatively, you could make square ones like these from craftelf.com, just click on the picture below to link to the page: