Zombie Gingerbread Plushie

     This zombie gingerbread plushie may be my favorite part of my costume.  Not feeling the zombie aspect?  Leave off the blood splatter and give it normal eyes, and this tutorial works fine for making a cute gingerbread plushie.

Materials:

*Light brown felt
*Light brown thread
*Sewing needle
*White paint
*Fine paintbrush or nail art brush
*Oven bake clay
*Green acrylic paint (or other gumdrop color)
*Purple acrylic paint (or other gumdrop color)
*White acrylic paint
*Red acrylic paint
*Black acrylic paint
*Brown acrylic paint
*Scissors
*Metallic marker or chalk
*Pillow stuffing
*Iridescent glitter
*All purpose adhesive

Directions:

*Print out or draw a gingerbread template.

*Cut out two copies of the gingerbread shape from the brown felt.

*Using a fine paintbrush and white paint, decorate one of the gingerbread shapes so it looks like a gingerbread cookie, except if you're going for a zombie aesthetic, give it x's for eyes.  If you have puffy fabric paint, that would probably work even better, but I didn't have any on hand, so I just used regular white acrylic paint and it worked out fine.

*Sew the two gingerbread pieces together, wrong sides together, using a blanket stitch.  Leave an opening in the gingerbread's head to add stuffing.

*Stuff and sew closed.

*Form two gumdrop shapes from oven bake clay.

*Bake the gumdrop shapes in the oven following the directions on the packaging.

*Paint the gumdrops in your chosen colors.

*While the paint is still wet, sprinkle on some iridescent glitter.  It will look a little like the sugar sprinkles on some gumdrops.

*Once the paint has dried, glue the gumdrops to the gingerbread plushie as buttons.

*Add small amounts of black and brown paint to create a crimson color.  Add crimson bloodstains to your gingerbread.