I don´t know if any of you ever got such cheap and useless toys for your kids. In Germany, we have these "Karnevalszüge" each year, the closest thing to this is a mardi gras parade. On our parades they throw sweets, little gifts and small toys for the children. Such toys keep collecting dust until mom puts them to the waste bin. Not this year! I had a cute and really practical idea hot to give the teddys a second live. They will become pincushions! There are tons and tons of pincushion ideas out there. But what I never liked on all these ideas was the fact, that you have to buy stuff or sew a pincushion. With the teddy-pincusions the sewing goes down to a minimum! First you will need to collect some small soft toys. Maybe your kids have got lot of these from everywhere. Often they come as giveaway in stores or events. I had two small ones from the german mardis gras, and a bigger one in lavender colour from my daughter. She will never recognize I took it, she m...