FILLING TOYS AND ITS EFFECTS ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT
knitting toys are essential for the development of our children. Equipment improves imagination. they start treating their toys like an individual, they feed them, they make them sleep, they even talk to them. Stuffing toys infuse children with love of animals and increase their interest in nature. Filler toys support the development of children’s sharing and sense of responsibility. It forms a small model of the roles it will assume in the future. For this reason, the role and importance of filling toys in children’s life is great.
Knitting Baby; Babies’ Best Sleep and Play Friend
They need loyal friends who will keep the babies entertained, befriend them, and spend time together. The knitting doll, which is a cute playmate, is next to the babies while playing, sleeping, eating, they play them, it enhances the feeling of love and sharing. Nowadays, handmade knitting dolls, which are becoming the focus of attention of more and more people, are the best friend of the babies, but they are also ideal with their naturalness.
Knitting doll, also known as ‘Amigurumi’, has been preferred by mothers in our country as well as in the world in recent years. One of the most important reasons for this is that it is hand made with natural materials, it has a soft texture and it develops a sense of friendship.
Before getting to know the cute knitted baby better, it is useful to know where they came from first. Amigurumi is a Japanese origin word. Derived from the words Ami and Nuigurumi. The first two syllables are Ami; It means ‘made with crochet hook and skewer’. Nuigurumi means “stuffed toy”. With the combination of these two words, knitting doll has been produced by millions of people around the world today and has become the best sleep and playmate of babies.
MATERİALS
Hook: 1,6 mm
Eye: 8 mm
Size: 6,5 inc
Eyes on 14th place
Feet 8-12th place
Ears 10-16th place
Yarn : Cotton soft yarn

HEAD
1: MR 8sc =(8)
2: 8inc =(16)
3: sc,inc =(24)
4: 3sc,inc =(30)
5: 2sc.inc.2sc =(36)
6: 5sc.inc =(42)
7: 3sc.inc.3sc =(48)
8: 7sc,inc =(54)
9: 4sc,inc,4sc =(60)
10: 9sc,inc =(66)
11: 5sc,inc,5sc =(72)
12: 11sc,inc =(78)
13-29: 78sc
30: 11sc,dec =(72)
31: 5sc,dec,5sc =(66)
32: 9sc,dec =(60)
33: 4sc,dec,4sc =(54)
34: 7sc,dec =(48)
35: 3sc,dec,3sc =(42)
36: 5sc,dec =(36)
37: 2sc,dec,2sc =(30)
38: 3sc,dec =(24)
39: sc,dec,sc =(18)
40: sc,dec =(12)
41: dec=(6)
FEET
1: 6zn
2: 4sc,w,3sc,inc =(12)
3: sc,inc =(15)
4: sc,inc,3sc, (sc,inc)*3 ,3sc, (sc,inc)*2 =(24)
5: 2sc,inc,3sc, (2sc,inc)*3 ,3sc, (2sc,inc)*2 =(30)
6-8: 30sc
9: 7sc,6dec,11sc =(24)
10: 7sc,3dec,11sc =(21)
11: 21sc
12: 5sc,dec =(18)
13: 18sc
BODY
1: MR 8sc =(8)
2: 8inc =(16)
3: sc,inc =(24)
4: sc,inc,sc =(30)
5: 3sc,inc =(36)
6: 2sc,inc,2sc =(48)
7: 7sc,inc =(54)
8: 4sc,inc,4sc =(60)
9-12: 60sc
13: 60sc (white yarn)
*Notes: after this (2 rows black) or (2 rows white) will continue as. ( Amigurumi )
15: 4sc,dec,4sc =(54)
16-18: 54sc
19: 7sc,dec =(48)
20-22: 48sc
23: 3sc,dec,3sc :(42)
24-26: 42sc
27: 5sc,dec =(36)
28: 36sc
ARMS
1: MR 6sc =(6)
2: 6inc =(12)
3: sc,inc =(18)
4-5: 18sc
6-7: 18sc (white yarn)
*Notes: after this (2 rows black) or (2 rows white) will continue as.
8: 4sc,dec =(15)
9-12: 15sc
13: 3sc,dec =(12)
14-15: 12sc
16: 2sc , dec =(9)
17: 4sc knitting joining

MOUTH
1: MR 6sc =(6)
2: 6inc =(12)
3: sc,inc =(18)
4: sc,inc,sc =(24)
5: 24sc
EARS
1: MR 6sc =(6)
2: 6inc =(12)
3: sc,inc =(18)
4: sc,inc,sc =(24)
5-7: 24sc
8: sc,dec,sc =(18)