The first ever stuffed animal was created around 1880 by a German seamstress named Margarete Steiff. Except, it wasn’t a stuffed animal she made, but a small pincushion in the shape of an elephant.

The teddy bear emerged out of a presidency. In November 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt was on a bear hunting excursion in ...

The Sarasota Toy Museum in Sarasota is a delightful journey through classic playthings and cherished memories. This isn’t ...

Similarly, the Squishmallow craze, which predates the more recent Jellycat frenzy, saw Gen Zers and Millennials clamor to get their hands on one of the bulbous stuffed toys. In 2021, a kids store in ...

This fall we got new carpeting. While packing our house we found dozens of items from our kids' childhood — clothes, stuffed animals, cuddle blankets — shoved into closets and under beds.

She founded Comfort Bears in a Catastrophe in 2020 as a way to fill that gap. "We've sent over 15,000 stuffed animals to different disasters across the country, like, we just sent some hurricane ...

For its 100th anniversary, Leica has launched a collection of Steiff teddy bears, branded camera accessories, stationery and ...

A woman in Roxborough did everything she could to reunite a stuffed animal with its owner. Mary Ann McGruddy said that she feared the bunny has a special meaning for a child and understands that ...

As Canadians celebrate the holidays with gift giving and feasts, Health Canada is warning about a choking risk from several stuffed toys ... found that the furry animals did not meet the toys ...

Health Canada is asking Canadian families to check any stuffed animals that may have appeared under the tree this year because there could be a choking hazard. The agency says Chinese-made Mother ...