Help your child make a water bottle cozy

Are you looking for something fun to make today? This cute sewing craft is easy enough even for little children. Once made, simply slip the sock over your child’s school water bottle. Let your child choose which character they’d like to make, from a water bottle dog to a water bottle frog!

What you need

• Adult-sized sock
• Cotton
• Sewing needle
• Buttons
• Safety pin

How to make it

• First, slip an adult-size sock with a coloured heel onto your child’s favourite water bottle to make sure it fits. To form the muzzle, turn the sock inside out and stuff the heel with five or six cotton balls.
• Use a needle and thread to sew the heel, leaving a half-inch gap.
• Turn the sock right side out. With black cotton, sew a stitch from the centre of the muzzle to its lower edge.
• Pull the thread tight. Sew a button nose to the top of the muzzle.
• Slide the bottle into the sock and fold under any excess.
• To make the ears, pinch the sides of the sock and safety-pin them in place (leave enough slack so that the sock slides off easily).
• Sew a few stitches where each ear meets the bottle, then remove the pins.
• Take the bottle out of the sock, then sew on button eyes.