Quick Tooth Pillow

At 8:00 pm last night my 6 year old little boy lost a tooth.  Yup, right at bed time.  Normally not a big deal, but when I went and got out our tooth pillow his little eyes went from joy to irritation. 

"MOM, don't you think that's a little girlie???"

What to do? I've got 5 girls, he's my oldest boy!  Why was I not more prepared....

So I attempted to just free hand cut a rough tooth outline on an old pillowcase and I even attempted a little pocket on it. 

Needless to say, it was an EPIC FAILURE. There is a reason I use patterns....

Now it is 8:15, and it is past his bedtime (I HATE when they are off their schedules)  So I put him to bed with the "bad tooth" pillow and PROMISED him there would be a much better, manly pillow when he woke up (kinda like Christmas!)

I immediately hopped online and searched through thousands of pictures of "girlie" little tooth pillows until I found this pattern at MMMCrafts.  It was too "girlie" but it is something I could work with. 

I downloaded the pattern and set out to work immediately using felt this time.  It is so much easier to use for a project like this, but it means I have to pull out the "FELT BOX"

It scares me.... Why can't I throw a scrap away (but that's a whole different story)

Anyways, I made the pocket mouth a little bigger but it is basically the same pattern.  The best part was deciding the style.  I had to channel my inner 6 year old boy......

PIRATE!

It was SO simple just to add an eye patch.  And it really makes it "manly" according to my son.

I absolutely love that it has a handle to hang it from, no more "tooth fairy" accidents.  She can just fly right on up to the top bunk and switch out the tooth without fear. 

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