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You can finally see The Little Prince movie in America. It is available through Netflix. For some reason it’s theatrical release was cancelled about a week before it was supposed to premiere, but now you can enjoy it in the comfort of your home. I highly recommend it. One of the nice things about this movie being out is that there is all kinds of merchandise available. I have instructions here to make your own Little Prince doll, but if you are not into crocheting you can get dolls on Amazon. It used to be that you could only find Little Prince things in France, although Moleskine has had some planners available the last few years. If you do decide to make this doll and/or blanket as a baby gift, there are Little Prince board books for babies on Amazon right now. When I was looking through everything I found a couple of games that were such a good deal that I decided to buy them. I’ll have pictures below in case you are interested. I have general instructions for baby blankets on a previous post. I used cotton acrylic blend Comfy Worsted Yarn for both the doll and the blanket. Not only is this yarn soft, it can be washed and put in the dryer which is really important when you make things for babies!
Crocheted Doll Instructions
x =sc
v=2 stitches in one sc (increase)
^= 1 stitch into 2 stitches (decrease)
(number of stitches per row)
Head
chain 4, slip st into first chain to form a loop
rnd 1: 8x into loop (8)
rnd 2: v to end of round (16)
rnd 3: x v to end of round (24)
rnd 4: x x v to end of round (32)
rnd 5: x to end of round (32)
rnd 6: x x x v to end of round (40)
rnd 7: x to end of round (40)
rnd 8: 9x v to end of round (44)
rnd 9-13: x to end of round (44)
rnd 14: x x ^ to end of round (33)
rnd 15: x to end of round (33)
rnd 16: x ^ to end of round (22)
rnd 17: x to end of round (22)
rnd 18: x ^ to end of round (11)
sl st to finish off, leave a long tail of yarn to sew head onto body
Body
chain 4, slip st into first chain to form a loop with green yarn
rnd 1: 7x into loop (7)
rnd 2: v to end of round (14)
rnd 3: x v to end of round (21)
rnd 4: 6x v to end of round (24)
rnd 5-10: x to end of round (24)
switch color to red
rnd 11-12: x to end of round (24)
switch back to green yarn
rnd 13-24: make 1 v somewhere in rnd -change location of v for each rnd. (+1 for each rnd) (final row-36)
sl st to finish off, leave a long tail of yarn to sew legs
Stitch face and shirt buttons onto unstuffed doll.
Stuff the head and sew it onto the body. Stuff the body.
Fold the body and stitch the midpoints together.
Then sew up the body until a few rows before the red belt to form the legs. You will make circles to close the leg openings.
Circles at bottom of pants (make 2)
chain 4, slip st into first chain to form a loop
rnd 1: 5x into loop (5)
rnd 2: v to end of round (10)
rnd 3: x v to end of round (15)
rnd 4: x x v to end of round (20)
sl st to finish off
Sew these circles onto the bottom of the pants
Shoes (make 4)
row 1: ch 3 and hdc in first ch (2)
row 2-4: ch 2, turn, hdc in same st, hdc to end of row (3) (4) (5)
Sew 2 triangles together and then sew into the bottom of the pants, repeat
Arms (make 2)
chain 4, slip st into first chain to form a loop in white
rnd 1: 5x into loop (5)
rnd 2: v to end of round (10)
rnd 3-10: x to end of round (10)
switch to green
rnd 11-12: x to end of round (10)
rnd 13: 5x, sl (5)
rnd 14: ch 1 turn work, 5x, sl (5)
sl st to finish off
The taller edge of the arm is the shoulder. Have it face up and sew the arm on to the body, repeat.
Hair
row 1: With yellow, ch 192. Starting from hook, skip one chain, then slip stitch, sc, hdc, dc in the next four stitches. Skip 2 ch and sl st into the next st on the chain.
This will form a long row of spikes. You will wrap this around and sew onto the head to form his spiky hair.
Wooden Board Games
The games I found on Amazon are based on existing board games, so if you have all those already, you may not want to get these. They are very cute and the game pieces are wooden. They are based on the movie version of the book so there are some characters who do not appear in the books represented in the games. Both games ship to the US and Australia.
I think you can choose any number of disks that gives you the correct combination. You can see in the example below that could be 1, 2 or 3 disks.
If you’d like to see more Little Prince crafts you can check out this post and my Little Prince Pinterest board.