Vermont: Touring the Vermont Teddy Bear Company Shelburne

Shelburne is located in the northwestern area of Vermont.  It is a popular vacation destination for a number of reasons but for families, the Vermont Teddy Bear Company offers a  unique opportunity, not only can you watch them make and repair reddy bears, you can make your own.  

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The tour is fascinating, the bears are hand cut and stuffed by local workers. They are machine sown which makes for a bear that can take a lot of loving from your kids. To take a tour, you need to sign up when you arrive, the gift shop is very distracting so don't forget. 

 

The tour was very informative, it is a combination of listening to your guide and reading posted signs. Surprisingly, it isn't just kids on the tour, we were not the only unaccompanied adutls on the tour. 

 

Every bear is made up of 10 separate parts.  It takes ¾ of a pound of stuffing to fill a 15-inch bear. 

Vermont Teddy Bears have a lifetime guarantee. If you buy a bear and it meets with an accident, you can mail it back to the bear hospital for the necessary repair. Everyone loved this part of the tour. They can handle any sort of injury from the most simple to the catastrophic. It makes you feel really good about buying one of their bears. 

If you are going to be in the area and want to do something that is fun and inexpensive, I highly recommend this tour. While the tour is inexpensive, the gift shop is very hard to resist and with children, probably impossible.