Tooth Fairy Doll: Free Sewing Pattern

Here’s a sweet sewing pattern for a tooth fairy doll that keeps lost baby teeth tucked away in her apron!

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Looking for a creative solution for storing your little one’s lost baby teeth?

This sweet tooth fairy doll is designed just for that!

This doll has a little button pocket on her apron for storing your little one’s teeth.

Store all your child’s teeth in the pocket as they lose each tooth, or come up with a fun tooth fairy story and incorporate this doll! (perhaps instead of placing a lost tooth under a pillow, your child can leave the tooth in this doll’s pocket… much easier for the tooth to be collected and a coin left in its place!)

This is a free printable sewing pattern.

This doll requires very little fabric, and is simple to make.

Print out your pattern at the bottom of the page, then follow along my step by step tutorial!

Supplies Needed:

To make this doll, you will need:

A small amount of fabric
Cotton Interlock fabric, or any stretchy knit fabric for the head
Yarn for the hair
Crochet hook
Scissors
Hand Sewing Needle and thread
Sewing machine
Pencil to trace your pattern
Wool to fill your doll
A button for the pocket
Some ribbon for the apron strings

Step 1: Trace and Sew your pieces

Cut out your paper templates.

Do not cut out your fabric yet!

We will be tracing the templates onto fabric, then sewing over two layers of fabric FIRST before cutting our pieces out.

Let’s go through each piece step by step.

First, trace and sew the head right on the fold of the fabric.

Your pattern piece will show you where the fold is.

Use cotton interlock (stretchy) fabric for the head.

Mind the stretch! Your pattern piece shows you (with arrows) how the fabric should stretch out WIDER not taller for the head.

Cut out the head AFTER you have sewn over your traced lines.

Leave the top of the head open, and leave about a 1/4″ seam allowance around all edges.

Stuff the head piece very firmly with wool, and sew the top closed.

For the body, trace your pattern onto your fabric.

Sew on TWO layers of fabric (right sides together), leaving the neck open (as marked on your pattern).

Cut out your body, turn it right side out, and stuff the body with wool.

Repeat this process for making the hat, but do not stuff the hat with wool.

Trace your wing pattern onto fabric.

With two layers of fabric right sides together, sew all the way around the wings right on your traced line.

Cut out your wings.

Right in the center, cut a vertical line through just ONE of the layers of fabric.

Use this hole to turn the wings right side out.

Top stitch around the wings with about a 1/8″ seam allowance.

For the square piece of the apron, trace your pattern on a piece of fabric, just as we’ve done for all the other pieces so far.

Sew 3 out of the 4 lines on the square with 2 layers of fabric, right sides together.

Leave ONE edge of your square open.

Cut out your apron square, then turn it right side out through the open edge.

Fold the edges of your open edge inside the apron square, then top stitch all the way around the apron to close your opening.

In this same way, sew your two semi-circle pocket pieces. Use the pictures as reference.

Attach the pocket pieces to the apron square.

To do this, first sew the larger semi circular onto the apron square, leaving the top flat edge OPEN. This is the portion that will contain the teeth.

The top pocket closure will be sewn above the pocket. Make sure you do not accidentally sew the pocket closed!

If you want a button on your apron like I have, sew a button hole onto the top closure of the pocket FIRST, before attaching it to the apron.

Sew the button onto the bottom semi-circle on the apron last. This makes it so that the button will be sewn onto the apron straight.

Sew some ribbon to the apron as apron ties.

Step 2: The Hair

For the hair on this doll, I crocheted a little cap.

I sewed the cap onto the doll’s head. (More on that in Step 3)

Then, I braided a long braid of matching yarn. I sewed that braid onto the doll’s cap. (Again, more on that in Step 3. For now, braid the yarn and set it aside.)

Don’t know how to crochet? That’s okay. You can still make hair for your doll.

You can use methods from how I sewed hair for my tiny rag dolls HERE.

Or, you can use how I sewed hair for my larger rag doll by browsing this tutorial here!

Know how to crochet? Here’s how I crochet a cap for Waldorf dolls. Check it out in this post!

Use whatever hair tutorial suits you best!

Step 3: The Final Assembly

Time to finish assembling your doll!

You’re almost to the finish line!

Stick the smaller end of your doll’s head into the doll’s body at the neck.

Fold the raw edges of your neck fabric into the doll and sew closed.

(The larger end of the head should be outside of your doll — it’s your doll’s head)

Next, sew the hair onto the doll.

To sew the hair on the doll, take a hand sewing needle and thread and first place the cap on the doll’s head.

The crocheted cap should be covering the entire back of the head. Leave the face untouched.

Sew around the edge of the cap to keep it attached to the doll’s head.

Then, sew the braid directly onto the cap.

When sewing on the braid, be sure to either use matching yarn and a tapestry needle to attach the braid, or use thread that will blend in nicely with the hair.

If you’re using a different method for the hair, do that instead for this step.

Next, sew the hat onto the doll’s hair.

Fold down the raw edges as your hand sew the hat onto your doll.

You don’t need to stuff the hat with any wool. It’s small enough to stay pointed on its own.

Next, gather your wings with a hand sewing needle as seen in the picture below. This gives them a nice “frilly” effect.

Sew the wings to the doll’s back.

While sewing on the wings, make sure that the side of the wings with the slit in it (the part of the wings you cut open to turn the wings right side out) is hidden by placing it AGAINST the doll’s body.

Use a little bit of black thread and embroider little eyes onto your doll.

Tie the apron onto the doll.

You could sew it into place, but I prefer the apron ties. It allows for more creative ideas to be used when storytelling with this doll (perhaps the apron can be hung on a child’s door at night with the tooth inside before being replaced with a shiny new coin in the pocket!).