How to Make a Wrestling Toy

Lay your white pillow case on a flat surface with the open side facing you. Cut open the seams on each one of the longer sides of your pillow case and leave it folded over in front of you. You should now have a pillow case with the top still stitched, and three open sides.

Place a piece of cardboard inside your pillowcase to separate each side of fabric. Paint the top side of your pillowcase with fabric paint to create a face and torso, as you like. Allow the paint two hours to dry completely, then flip the pillowcase and cardboard over and paint the other side to correspond with the front. Allow two hours to dry.

Stuff four long, white tube socks with cotton, leaving about two inches of fabric on the open end so that you will be able to sew your socks into your pillowcase for arms and legs. Once stuffed, paint your socks with fabric paint as you like to resemble arms and legs. Allow the paint two hours to dry.

Remove the piece of cardboard from inside your pillow case. Take the two inches of fabric left over on your tube sock arms and place in between the pieces of fabric of your pillowcase. Place them on the edges about four inches from the top of your pillowcase, in between the two sides that you have painted with your torso and face. Secure them prior to sewing.

Starting at the top of one of the longer sides of your pillowcase, begin sewing your pillowcase back together with your tube sock arms in between the two pieces of fabric. Use thick thread and sew all the way down to the bottom of your pillowcase, then knot or secure as you like. Repeat this step with the other long side of your pillowcase and the other tube sock arm. You should now have a pillowcase with both long sides sewn together and tube sock arms sewn into each side.

Stuff your pillowcase with cotton until it is almost full, but leave a couple of inches of fabric at the bottom end to make room for your tube sock legs and to sew the pillowcase closed.

Place the two inches of fabric you left at the open end of your tube sock legs in between the pieces of fabric on the open end of your pillowcase, say about two inches from either long side. Pin the open end of your pillowcase with the tube sock legs closed, and sew it from one side to the other, removing pins as you go along.