Felt Gingerbread

C has an obsession with gingerbread.  It began with the reading of Gingerbread Baby.

Our local Lowes has projects for kids every couple of weeks and earlier this month the project was a gingerbread house.  Of course I needed to take C.

He was very excited, but disappointed to find that it didn't come with a gingerbread.

After some Facebook discussion looking for a small toy gingerbread, my friend suggested I make one.

And my felt gingerbread was born.  It's not fancy or perfect, but he likes it.  

I simply used supplies I had on hand.  This burgundy color was the best gingerbread color I had.  You can also see my embroidery floss collection below.  It's from when I was a teenager, so it's full of girly colors , thus somewhat limiting.  Also, making one so small was a little more challenging than I realized going in.

What you need:
Felt (color you'd like your gingerbread)
Embroidery floss (whatever colors you desire)
Sewing needle
Scissors
2 cotton balls
Something to push the cotton balls into the gingerbread (this black thing was from some scratch-off ornaments and it worked perfectly!)

Note: this took me a little over two hours start to finish.
1-Freehand cut two pieces of felt into a gingerbread shape.
2-Start sewing eyes, mouth, buttons, and any other details desired onto one gingerbread.
3-Place two felt pieces together front facing (or inside out).
4-Stitch pieces together, leaving enough space at the end to turn right side out.
5-Turn right side out.
6-Break up cotton ball and begin placing small pieces into the gingerbread.  Use your tool to be sure it gets in all the tiny spots.
7-Stitch the remaining part of the gingerbread and stuff with more cotton ball as needed while doing this.