Soft toy making courses, workshops & holidays
including doll, plush toy & teddy bear making
Barbara-Ann Bears
based: Kent, UK
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One-to-one teddy bear making or teddy bear design workshops in Kent. Covering all aspects of bear making from beginner to advanced level. On-site log cabin accommodation avialable for multi-day courses.
| soft toy making | England |
Felt World
based: Staffordshire, UK
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Feltmaking workshops, classes and weekends in the West Midlands – wet felting and neddle felting courses teaching the skills to make a diverse range of felt items including bags, slippers, toys, decorations, footstools etc.
| felt making | soft toy making | England |
Woodland Teddies
based: Leicestershire, UK
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Bear making workshops, from one-to-one tutorials to group workshops. Courses are aimed at all levels from novice makers to those with experience at bear making. Workshops can be arranged locally in Leicestershire, or throughout the UK.
| soft toy making | UK |
Doll Cottage
based: Surrey, UK
Traditional porcelain doll making classes and workshops, including porcelain and other media.
| soft toy making | England |
Shipwrights Cottage
based: Western Australia, Australia
Small, intimate, hands-on workshops that teach old past skills including basketry, yoghurt making, soft toys, spinning and sewing skills.
| soft toy making | weaving | basket making | Australia |
Tillington Bears
based: Cambridgeshire, UK
Comprehensive, informal teddy bear making workshops, created to help those who've never made a bear before, or who need help in the early stages.
| soft toy making | UK |
About our soft toy making section
This section is focused on courses and workshops for the making of plush, cuddly and soft toys, stuffed animals, soft dolls and teddy bears; teaching sewing skills for making toys from existing patterns; sometimes also including the design of toys from scratch and the creaton of patterns.
A few of the soft toy and bear making courses and workshops included in this section are organised as full packages which include accommodation; we also list some instruction only day and multi-day courses which don't include accommodation, some of these will provide information on local reccomended accommodation, but where this is not the case we suggest taking a look at the Travel-Quest Accommodation Directory, here.
CATEGORY DEFINITION FOR TOUR OPERATORS WISHING TO BE LISTED:
The Travel-quest soft toy making section lists holidays, courses, workshops short and weekend breaks which provide instruction in the creation of soft toys, cuddly animals, teddy bears, plush toys and soft dolls – in fact any toy sewn from textiles, or knitted and crocheted and stuffed with a soft filling.
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