Stuffed Animal Easter Buddies

More stuffed animal easter buddies all washed up and ready for the holiday!

With the care and washing recommendations here, your clean stuffed animals and easter buddies will provide you and your child many years of fun and happiness.

Enjoy!

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Stuffed Animal Cousin of Rupert Rawls?

These well loved Stuffed Animals sure look like they could use a bit of a washing. The little elephant in particular looks like our friend Rupert Rawls, you can find his fan page on facebook!

Picture of Rupert Rawls courtesy Rupert Rawls.

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Stuffed Lions need washing help too

Stuffed animals with any foam parts, including foam beads like the ones in bean bag chairs, can not be put in a washing machine.

Stuffed animals with foam parts can still benefit from surface cleanings. Just sprinkle your stuffed animal with dry baking soda. After 25 minutes brush the baking soda off. This process will clean smells out and clean any surface dirt from your stuffed animal. You can also use baby powder.

For bad stain or soiling on your stuffed animal, use a gently all purpose cleaner. Ideally an organic, safe, multi purpose cleaner. Then take a soft scrub brush or toothbrush to the stuffed animal, particularly cleaning the soiled areas, wipe clean with a dry or slightly damp towel and let your freshly washed stuffed animal dry.

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NOMbat - a great reason to wash your stuffed animals

This is a great reason for washing your stuffed animals, babies put everything they can in their mouths. You can surface clean your stuffed animals or you can thoroughly clean your stuffed animals, you should make the decision based on what your stuffed animal is made out of. In fact, you should decide what stuffed animals you let your baby stuff in their mouth on almost the same criteria!

This particular stuffed animal reminds us of our good friends over at nomBat Brand Development, their mascot is a hungry nomBat, and they also just happen to do great graphic design and brand development.

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Stuffed Tigger ready for washing

If your stuffed animal is really big, really firm, or has a lot of stuffing you can remove the stuffing by cutting open a 5-6 inch seam in the bottom of the stuffed animal to be washed. Removing the stuffing will prevent it from shifting and keep the animal from losing shape. If the stuffing is dirty you can wash it by hand or even better replace it with new stuffing from a fabric store. If you are washing your stuffed animals stuffing by hand be sure and let it dry before you put it back in. After washing, re-stuff your freshly washed stuffed animal and sew the seam back up to make sure no stuffing will fall out.


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Stuffed animals are generally cuddlier than washing machines

Although stuffed animals are usually cuddlier, this washing machine still is cute.

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Drying your well washed stuffed monkey

After you was your stuffed monkey you can blow dry his hair to keep it from matting, just as long as it doesn't get too warm.

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A nice clean group of stuffed animal friends

This is a nice clean, well washed group of stuffed animal friends. They are all washed and ready for a cuddly kid to join them. Make sure you add us to your RSS feed so that you get all of our stuffed animal washing tips.

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NYC Toys prime for a good washing!

Lets gets these toys washed up. There is a ton of great raw material for a toy adventure here, all we need is some "dirty toy" tender loving care and these stuffed animals will get their good cleaning.

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