Floppy Head

 Don't you just HATE it when you are driving in the car and you look back to find your child's head flopping all over the place as they are fast asleep?!?  We've tried several different travel pillows from various stores and websites, and non of them seem to really work at keeping our 2 year old daughter's head up.  Then, the other day I saw a child with the most brilliant pillow, and I immediately had to make one for my daughter:

 

I think we finally have a solution for our floppy-head problem!

I made it from a scrap piece of fabric that I cut to 55 inches by 11 inches.  I hemmed the two 11 inch ends, then folded it right sides together hot-dog style and sewed the two 55 inch sides together.  I turned it right side out, then measured 15 inches in from one end, and sewed a straight line through all the layers (this is to hold my batting in place as I fill up the pillow).  I then stuffed the pillow with batting until it was filled up to 15 inches from the opposite end of my sewn line.  I again sewed a straight line here through all of the layers to keep my batting in place.  At each end, I simply tied a ring to the pillow, which I will use to attach to the stroller, carseat, etc. to keep the pillow in place when my daughter might be falling asleep.  However, not all strollers and carseats have something that you can attach a ring to, which is why I left 15 inches of fabric at each end.  If needed, I can just tie the fabric around something that the ring wouldn't fit around.  and the best part of all...this only took me about 15 minutes from design to finish!

*FLOPPY HEAD UPDATE*
Over the memorial day weekend, we traveled from Houston to Oklahoma, and really got to try out this new pillow.  It worked wonderfully!  My daughter loved her cool new pillow, and slept much better without her head flopping around!  We just kept it attached to her carseat like pictured above, and she could push it up and behind her seat whenever she didn't want it, but then when she started to get tired, she could just reach back and pull it back down in front of her to rest her head on.  It was perfect!