You will need:
a stuffed animal (a hand puppet is the easiest one to work with but you can make others work too)
scrunchie in the color of your animal
needle
thread
cup
I bought both items from the dollar store. There was a whole bin of small stuffed animals in the toy section. Look for animals that have hands and feet such as this elephant, this will let your animal surround the camera lens. A animal without limbs, like a dolphin or snake won’t have the same effect.
First cut out the center of your animal, leave enough fabric on the top, bottom and around the arms that you can sew it to the scrunchie. About an inch or so of fabric is adequate.
Find a cup about the size of your camera lens, you can use your actual lens if you need to but it is slightly easier with the cup. Stretch your elastic over the cup and then wrap your stuffed animal around the cup until it looks they way you want it and pin. Hand sew the your animal to the elastic, making sure to catch both the front piece of fabric on your animal and the one on the back. Leave the elastic wrapped around the cup while you sew will ensure that your animal looks the way you want it too when it is on your lens.
If you want, you can repeat the process with the feet of your animal. I think a pal would look cute both ways and leaving off the feet with save you a little bit of time. Although, I do think it is completely darling to have the complete animal hanging around your camera.
Add to your camera lens and use to get those kiddos smiling.
I love my elephant, what kind of animal would you use to accessorize your camera?
What a good idea! really cute!
I LOVE THIS! We recently had a photographer use a duck one and it actually worked and got my little ones to smile! Thanks so much for sharing!
WOW!! So genius!!! And not to mention SUPER cute!! Found you thru Ucreate! Thanks for sharing!!
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Kristine
http://www.jandmseyecandy.blogspot.com
Super genius!! I'm definitely going to be making several of these!!
How adorable! Unfortunately, I'm strangely uncomfortable cutting into stuffed toys so I won't be able to make one for my camera!
Cute, cute, cute! I do have one question–maybe a dumb one. How do you see to take the picture? Isn't the viewfinder covered up?
That is totally awesome. I will be making one this summer. Thanks for the crafty inspiration!
Remember how this was and is awesome? And way easier than making your own animal and sewing it to the scrunchie? Yeah, good times 🙂
MR ELEPHANT NOOOOOO
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What a great idea! My friend just started working as a professional photographer, I'm going to show her this idea. Please think about adding your blog to our directory, it's free! 🙂 Heather at 500dollarwedding.blogspot.com
I love this and can't wait to make one for my photography!!! Thanks for the great tutorial!!
I love elephants! I bought one of those puppets a few months ago for something else, but can't find them now! I will be on a Dollar Tree hunt for him because this is just too cute, and elephants are the best!
so very inventive….u rock
I think this is a very cute idea!! but, I am with the other comment I don't get how you see to take the picture.
Do you set it up and then put the animal on it? Or I know with my rebel you can use the LCD screen but it is difficult to get pulled up and goes away after one shot…
please do explain 🙂
I am happy to explain! On an SLR camera what you see through the viewfinder is actually coming through the lens. Since this little pal goes around the lens, it doesn't block anything and you can see just fine!
Love, love, love! Thank you for sharing the tut with us!
really cool idea! Thanks for sharing!
really great idea! I pinned it. Too bad that we do not have dollar stores here. Well I guess I will have to go to the 15 dollar store:)
and make this cutie for my friends baby – my little one (2.5)poses already:) the little princess. Thank you for sharing
This is awesome! We do some photography on the side and would definitely use this 🙂 Thanks for sharing!!
THANK YOU so much for linking up to Help a Momma Out Tuesday!! We appreciate it!! This idea fits perfectly 😉
Kristine
http://www.jandmseyecandy.blogspot.com
LOVE LOVE LOVE, so much better than some I have seen for sale. This will be a great addition to my studio.
i love this! so easy! I think I would add a noise maker – some kind of bell or squeaky – maybe inside the hands? to get kids to look up at the camera.
Genious! Thank you so much for the step-by-step tutorial. I definitely want to try this out!
Do you know if it affects your white balance? I think it's a great idea…. maybe if you custom set it? I think the scrunchie would cover the meter? Just thinking out loud 🙂
Great tutorial! I probably should have read it again before dissecting the stuff animals I bought for this project!!! Maybe I should have just bought mine…at least my daughter and I had a good laugh.
LOVE this!! It's so easy and the result is great! Thank you for sharing!
This is a great idea! So cute and so do-able! My little niece will laugh! Forwarding to my SIL now. Thanks!
This is really clever! Thanks for sharing on The Living with Style Linky Party!
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