Is your child OBSESSED with their Wubbanub pacifiers?  My now 2-year-old son is extremely attached to his and has specific names for each character.  He isn’t very creative with those names, but when “COW” broke apart he was devastated.  He carried Cow’s sad little stuffed body around and just repeated the word “broken” over and over again.  Cow wasn’t our first Wubbanub to break, in fact it was our fourth.  The devastation of losing Cow motivated this mama to get with it and figure out a way to fix them all.  Turns out, it was extremely easy to fix a Wubbanub.

After fixing my son’s beloved Cow, I decided that I would fix the other 3 that had broken.  Two had broken over a year ago, so I decided to use pink and purple Soothie pacifiers to turn them girlie for my new daughter due this month.  Below is the transformation of our brown dog and giraffe Wubbanubs into pink and purple, girlie Wubs.

Materials Needed:

Replacement Soothie Pacifiers

Sad Wubbanub Body

Thread that matches the tip of the Wubbanub’s mouth

Heavy Duty Hand Needle

Seam Ripper

Optional: Needle Puller and Thimble (highly recommended to save time and your fingers)

Time:

About 5 minutes per Wubbanub!

Here’s what I did to fix a Wubbanub:

1. Using your seam ripper, cut the seams of the Wubbanub’s mouth.  Make sure that you get all of the stiches on the ends so that your replacement Soothie will be able to fit in the space.
2. Remove the left over piece from the original pacifier
3. Put the replacement Soothie into the newly created hole to make sure that it fits.  Place the Soothie so that the holder portion (the tab hanging off the back) that you will be attaching it by is on the bottom.  This will allow the Wubbanub to properly hang downward while your kiddo is using it.  The mouth hole will also curve with in the same direction that the Soothie base is curving in.
4. Cut 8″ of matching thread (this will be more than enough) and thread your needle.
5. In order to hide the original knot, take out the Soothie and put in the first stitch so that the knot is left inside the mouth.
6. Replace the Soothie and begin stitching at the end where you placed your first knot.  I found it easiest to use the Thimble to push the needle through all of the layers.  I then used the Needle Puller part of the tool to pull the needle the rest of the way, once it was through all the other layers.
7. If you do not have either tool, you can use a counter top in place of the thimble to help you push the needle through all of those layers.  
8. Then continue to stitch the entire length of the Soothie base.  Once you have reached the other end, reverse directions and stitch back to the side that you originally started on.
9. In order to hide the end knot, I again threaded the needle, just through one side of the fabric mouth.  My favorite method of tying knots in hard to reach areas like this is to thread the needle through, but to not pull the thread all the way.  This will leave you with thread on either side of your material.  I remove the needle and then tie these two tails together a few times and cut off the excess length.
10. Next step: Do a happy dance because you just fixed a Wubbanub and became a hero to your child!!

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