In our hall we have a basket which is filled with hats and other things depending on the season and this week I took all the winter hats, gloves and scarfs and swapped them for the summer caps and hats and I was left with two odd gloves, that were missing their mates. So I decided to upcycle them and make some glove monsters. And yes, I know that it is June and I am only putting away the winter stuff, but it has been a really odd Spring in the UK this year and we have had hail in May!

Making glove monsters is a great way of using up odd gloves that are different sizes (I pair up ones of the same size in different colours as life is too short to worry about odd gloves and odd socks)! I have had so many suggestions for names for these rather adorable glove monsters including glovelies, glove gremlins, monster mittens and glovlets. Which is your favorite?

How to make Glove Monsters

Glove monsters are a great sewing project for tweens and teens and can be as cute or scary as you wish them to be. I wouldnt give these to children under three if you use buttons on them due to the choking hazard.
Materials
Gloves
Felt
Buttons
Thread and needle
Scissors
glue
Stuffing
Instructions

Turn your glove inside out and mark where you want to sew. I wanted our glove monsters to have four legs so we excluded the tumb. I used a chalk pen to draw on it. This makes it really visible for children to sew against. Leave a gap in the middle so that you can stuff the glove.

Turn your glove the right way round and fill with stuffing. We used the insides of a dog teddy that Alvin has totally destroyed! Maxi used a pencil to stuff the fingers of the glove and we turned the cuff inside.

Then sew the hole you left shut. Take care not to overstuff your glove, especially if it is a magic glove like ours was.

Maxi had been through our button stash and decided that he wanted to use buttons as eyes, but you could also use felt. He sewed them on to one of the glove monsters, but used a hot glue gun for the other one. He also used the hot glue gun to stick the felt mouths on to the monsters.

Save Money with Cavendish Online
The inspiration behind the Glove Monsters was a collaboration with Cavendish Online, who asked me to try out their website and test out if they were cheaper than compare the market (who spend lots of advertising and mascots)! In addition to trying out their site, they asked us to have a go at designing a mascot for them.

MadDad has a life insurance policy at the moment, so I used his details and put them in to both websites for a 20 year term life insurance policy and you can see the clear differences below:


So the two prices (using the Aviva option with the £25 fee) are £2.75 a month difference, which is £33 a year and £660 over the 20 year period. Once you take the £25 fee off it is a total difference of £635, which is just amazing and it just goes to show that not all comparison sites are made equal and we will be using Cavendish Online in the future.

#FabulouslyFrugal

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Let’s all share that being frugal can be fabulous.



Thanks for featuring my hygrometer, Jen! I hope your boys will enjoy making one.
What a great upcycle! They look fab.
So cute and effective too. A great idea for a craft activity for kids.
These are so cute! What a fab project to make with the kids. I love them x
Oh now these are so adorable and may just be added to my things to do in the summer list.
A friend of mine does a similar thing with socks x
They are great but now you have got me thinking about Halloween!
These are super cute. We always end up with a huge selection of odd gloves that it would be a shame to throw away
These are fantastic. I love them xx
These are fantastic. I love them xx
These are fantastic. I love them xx
These are fantastic. I love them xxx
Oh these are fantastic what an awesome idea! x
These are really fun and I bet that the kids loved designing them. You’re right about the weather in the UK – it’s pouring with rain and 14 degrees where I am today so I’m not packing away my gloves and scarves yet, even though it’s June.
oh i do love this idea , my son would love to make these
LOVE those! And I think Syd would too – we always have odd gloves knocking about. It may be June but he actually asked for his mittens on the school run today!
These do look fun and they would be a way of using odd gloves. Despite my best efforts at labelling, my son losing loads at school.
What a great way to recycle those odd miss matched gloves!
Oh I love the glove monsters Jen, what a brilliant idea. They look ace too. Funnily enough we were decorating a sock on a ferry the other day. It was a kit stuck on the front of a magazine though to occupy POD. It worked obvs 🙂
They are so cute!! We’ve made sock monsters before but never used gloves
Oh my goodness these are adorable!! I love them….great idea.
I saw these pictures on instagram and instantly fell in love – what a fabulous idea
what a great idea I love this
Haha, the glove monsters are awesome! I’m going to make one for my little daughter. Thanks for the idea!
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What a great idea! I have so many odd gloves hanging around the house! Kaz x