I wanted to make something special for Christmas this past year, so I decided to make each of my children a sock toy.  They were a big hit, and since I never got around to posting about them last year I figured I would do a little ‘Post of the Past’.

I put 6 magnets in each toy; the first 4 went into the hands and feet.  The other two went in a different spot for each animal.

The first one I made was the monkey.  It was kind of my test, since I had a pattern that I had printed off the Internet and if it didn’t turn out the way I wanted, I had not lost all that much.  I shouldn’t have worried, as it was really easy and fun to make.   I put the extra 2 magnets in the tail, one at the very end and one a little more than half way up.

The second I made was this adorable frog.  I had no pattern to follow, but I really liked how he turned out.  I call him the “Ay yi yi Frog” because I put the extra magnets about where his ears would be.  He reminds me of a tree frog from South America, so he would of coarse need to be able to speak the native language right…(Yes I know, I put way to much thought into this.)

The last one I made was an elephant.  I altered pattern for an elephant on four legs to make it walk on 2.  I put the extra magnets in the tip of the trunk and in the mouth so it could ‘feed” itself.

If anyone wants a beginners project to make for someone, these are great.  The hardest part was turning some of the smaller pieces right side out.