Does anyone use poly pellets?

[TheWoollybacksWife]

I need to order some poly pellets to weight some amigurumi figures I'm making. Each figure needs a pad of beads in the base. The figures are about 6cm across the base and will be 20cm tall and I'm making 8 figures. I can buy the pellets in 250g, 500g and 1kg packs. Will 250g be enough? I don't want to have a load left over as that will just encourage me to start a new project

You could just use rice? White rice, baked dry to 'kill' it so it doesn't go off in a few years. I've also heard of clay cat litter being used as a weighting medium. Either way you're not creating plastic waste for the future :-)

Thank you. I had thought about using rice but I was worried about it going off or getting wet so I'll look into 'killing' it. I daren't even contemplate buying cat litter. DS would think we were getting a cat and his sister is very allergic 😂

Ha! Yes cat litter might be the wrong call then :-)

I've used Hama beads before. We have loads of those hanging about!