#plastic pellets

“The sinking of the X-Press Pearl – and spill of chemical products and plastic pellets into the seas of Sri Lanka – caused untold damage to marine life and destroyed local livelihoods,” says Hemantha Withanage, director of the Centre for Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka.

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No worries, anon! If you have any more questions or need help in the way of finding things, please let me know. I’d also love to hear how the toys go for you!

And if you ever want to show us your crochet plushie store, I suspect my followers (and myself!) will check out your creations.

Yes I do, anon!

Edible possibilities include rice (just use whatever’s cheapest), beans (kidney beans, black beans, any dried bean), split peas (green or yellow), lentils or my favourite, as it contains everything but rice, soup mix. (The Italian soup mix has more beans!) These are all dried items with no seasonings that, if you don’t let them get wet, will keep infinitely. (If they get wet, they can mould; if there’s barley in your soup mix, it can even sprout.) Other alternatives include seeds, but make sure you use unsalted ones, as salted seeds can stain your fabric. However, rice is usually easier to find for most of us, so I’d recommend that over seeds.

I really like the soup mix because you get lots of different shapes and sizes, meaning you can poke through the fabric at the contents of the bean bag and have the stimminess of trying to find the larger beans or identify the different shapes. Plus the noise they make when tossed, rattling together, is gorgeous!

Non-edible possibilities include the very fine decorative gravel I talk about in this post. (I bought mine from a dollar shop, but this may not be universal.) This has weight without being too heavy and rattles instead of clanking.

My inclination is that rice may exist in your cupboard already, but if not, rice and beans and soup mix should be easily sourced from your local supermarket.

(If you ever want to wash the bean bag, you’ll just need to unpick the top seam and empty out the filling before laundering, then replace filling and resew that seam. Mine have yet to get that dirty, though.)

If you want your bean bag to be durable (washing without unpicking) you’ll need to go for the decorative gravel above or poly pellets. (There’s an ebay listing, a $15 AUD BIN for 3 kilograms plus $14 AUD shipping. These things are expensive once you factor in shipping. It might be worth checking your local ebay to see what options you have, if this is a concern.) But, as an adult stimmer who’s careful with my things, I’m yet to find this absolutely necessary, and rice is so much cheaper!

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