Heated Baby for Kids

It's always heart wrenching when a baby or young child is sick, uncomfortable, and crying. You want to make it all better but, sometimes, you can't. A baby with a serious condition, of course, should be taken for medical help, but a baby with the colic, or a child with the flu and cold shivers, can feel better at home. All you have to do is make a heated baby doll and your child will feel much more comfortable in minutes.

You know how a gingerbread man is shaped? That's an easy baby doll shape to create for the heated buddy. However, you can use most any simplistic shape to make the baby buddy. Use felt, flannel, fleece, or even cotton, to create the helpful baby. Do not use any type of synthetic material as it could melt.

Draw one of the gingerbread men or other shapes onto the chosen fabric. Draw around that shape, staying a quarter-inch away from the original drawing, to create a line to guide you while you sew. Cut out two of these shapes.

Stack the shapes so that their right sides face each other. Follow the line you drew around the original shape to sew around the edges of the doll. Leave an opening on one side of the shape so you can later fill the doll.

Turn the doll right-side-out. Use a funnel to pour rice into the area that hasn't been sewn. Don't fill the doll too full; you should easily be able to sew the opening shut without having rice spilling out as you do so.

After the heat doll is full and closed, you can then decide on features for it. Draw a face on it with paint markers, use a needle and thread to sew eyes and a mouth, or even sew little scraps of fabric to it to create a face, shoes, or other accents.

To use the heated buddy just put it in the microwave for a bit. After heating it for nearly two minutes, check the temperature. Before laying the baby on the buddy, or before using the doll in another manner, lay it on the inside of your wrist to test the temperature. The heated doll works well to soothe upset stomachs or cold chills in children but also works on sore muscles and aching joints in an adult.