DIY felt letters - soft alphabet sewing patterns for children

Good afternoon, dear needlewomen!

felt material more than once in our master classes, and decided that it is a very comfortable fabric for creating wonderful crafts and educational toys, since it is pleasant to work with: the material does not crumble, its edges do not need to be processed.

You can also decorate a child’s room with felt letters by making a banner out of them.

You can also make letters from felt - learning the alphabet will be a pleasant activity for your child. Your baby will learn letters as well as colors.

You can put the letters on a magnet and attach them to the refrigerator, or make a panel with Velcro, or maybe even an alphabet game with your own hands.

A felt alphabet is a very useful thing and is indispensable in learning letters.

In our article you will find letter patterns, a master class on sewing letters and the alphabet from felt with your own hands.

How to cut letters from felt

Adviсe:

When cutting out letter patterns, use scissors to round off sharp corners to make cutting and sewing easier.
You can transfer the pattern to felt using a pencil, soap, or a disappearing marker.
You can lay out patterns on felt in any direction; it has no longitudinal or transverse threads
Felt does not have a back side - trace the pattern on either side of the felt
The edge of the felt does not require special processing; there is no need to turn the letters inside out
Leave a few millimeters for the seam

When cutting out felt, the main thing is to maintain smooth movements, not to fuss, and not to make snags.

If the movements of the scissors are smooth, there will be no gaps left.

To cut out the inside of the letter, make a cut with scissors and then cut along the outline.

Materials and tools

To create a soft alphabet, you need to purchase the following items from art and craft stores:

Filling - you can use padding polyester, holofiber or padding polyester. The latter option is preferable, as it is lightweight and does not lose its shape. To develop tactile perception, many advise taking cereal, but first it will need to be calcined in the oven to prevent the appearance of beetles.
Textile glue or glue gun. These 2 types of glue are non-toxic and odorless. If the letters are not created for a child, you can also use glue moment crystal.

Glue gun

Scissors, Velcro, magnets, needle.
Disappearing fabric marker for transferring patterns onto fabric and making notes. As a last resort, you can use a gel pen.
Thin but non-transparent fabric.
Threads - to sew toys, you can use regular sewing threads or floss. The second option has a plus - a rich range of colors, which allows you to choose a color to match the fabric, then the seams will not be noticeable.

Note! As an additional decoration for the toy, you can use beads for the eyes, beads, bows, and bells.

Beads for eyes

Felt alphabet with animals

You can diversify the usual felt alphabet by sewing charming animals to the letters, it will be more interesting to study the letters. For example, in the letter “A” - sew a Stork, to the letter “N” - a Rhinoceros.

You can also make an alphabet wall hanging for organization.

For this you will need additional materials:

— Velcro;

— Main fabric for panels;

— Filler, for example, padding polyester, holofiber, foam rubber, cardboard, it will keep the shape of the panel.

— Fabric of a different color for “pockets”

We cut out large rectangles (2 pieces) from the fabric, sew pockets onto the front part, cut them out of multi-colored fabric and sew them onto the base. Next, both sides of the panel need to be sewn, not forgetting to put the filler in the middle.

Then you need to come up with an animal for each letter, prepare patterns, some of them you will find below, also in our previous article.

Or print out regular children's coloring books and use them as patterns.

For each pocket cell there is one letter and an animal. You can play with the animals and learn letters at the same time.

It’s not difficult to do, but the work is small and therefore quite painstaking. But the result is worth it!

For sewing, use thin 1 mm felt.

How to sew a felt alphabet

Ideas and templates for felt letters can be taken from the Internet. You can involve older children in making the soft alphabet: the products are sewn by hand, so the work is not difficult even for younger schoolchildren. Moreover, it is even useful because it develops fine motor skills of the hands.

The size of the elements will depend on how you plan to use them:

for a garland or metric, you can sew letters measuring 6-10 centimeters;
for use as teaching material, a size of 4-5 centimeters is sufficient.

Detailed instructions for making letters for beginners:

Print letter patterns of the desired size on paper and cut them out. Choose felt: for a personalized garland it is better to take soft felt - Spanish or Korean, wool or wool mixture. Hard felt is not suitable for three-dimensional letters: after printing, it will cause folds and creases.

Place two sheets of felt together. Place the patterns on the sheets of felt close to each other. This is not fabric, no seam allowances needed! Trace the patterns and cut out the letters.

Next you need to sew each letter. Place the two cut out letters next to each other and have a needle and thread ready. The letters need to be sewn together using an overlock stitch, initially inserting a needle between two parts (this way the knot will be inside the toy and will not spoil the appearance.

As the letter acquires a three-dimensional appearance, it needs to be filled with holofiber or other filler. After finishing the seam, carefully secure the end and hide it inside the toy.

How to make letters from felt correctly:

Choose a font with wide elements, such as Georgia.
The letters A, B, C, D, O, R, F, Y, Z need to be sewn from the inside seams: this will make it easier to stuff the toy.
The corners of the pattern should be rounded: this will make sewing easier.
The letters can be decorated with additional decor: butterflies, flowers, or embroidered with an ornament.

In addition to the method described in the master class on felt letters, they can be sewn on a sewing machine. It is important that they do not unravel during play, because felt is a non-woven fabric.

We told you how to sew a letter from felt with your own hands. Using the same principle, you can make numbers to teach your child counting and mathematical operations. You can make letters of different sizes, sew consonants from felt of one color, vowels - another, numbers - a third.

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If you plan to use them to teach reading, it is better to make several sets so that you can form words with the same letters. This way the toy will turn into a useful teaching aid.

To store felt letters and numbers, sew a fabric bag or make a bright box. You can sew a book with pockets, where each letter will have its own “house”.

Pattern of the letter E and a raccoon from felt

Letter E made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter Z and giraffe made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter Z made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter I made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter Y made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter L made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter M made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter N made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter O made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter R made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter C made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter T made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter U made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter F made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter X made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter C made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter s made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter H made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter Ш made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter b, b, e, yu made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Letter I made of felt. DIY alphabet video.

Felt letters on magnets video

Fabric selection

Many woven and non-woven materials are suitable for creating soft parts:

Fleece
Cotton.
Linen.
Felt.
Silk.
Fleece.
Flannel.

All the needlewomen who have tried to make soft letter pillows say that the best fabric in this matter is felt. This is a dense non-woven material consisting of compressed wool. Felt is valued for its advantages:

Strong, non-fraying edge.
Wide variety of colors.
Plasticity, the ability to maintain shape.
Ease of use - bends in different directions, easily tears and cuts.
Possibility of double-sided use.
Wide variety of colors.

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Felt

Holiday garlands

Felt is suitable for any celebration in your life, be it New Year or a wedding. Felt products do not wrinkle or fade; they can be placed in any corner of your home.

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Optimal alphabet size

You need to decide in advance what size the alphabet and animals will be. This determines how much felt you need to purchase. Teachers working with children believe that the optimal size for a child’s hand is letters of 6.5-10 cm.

But it is worth remembering that the side seams will take about 2 mm; after printing, the letter will gain volume and will look smaller. Therefore, in order to sew a voluminous Russian alphabet, the pattern must be large - 12-13 cm.

If the alphabet is created as a decorative component, any size can be taken.

Letter shape

When determining how to make a letter craft, you need to take into account some implementation features. Besides the usual method, there are others. Mothers and daughters can make letters from fabric.

Letters are cut out of soft fabrics and covered with beads. There is a way to cut from coarser fabrics. They also trim around the edges. But the best thing, of course, is paper crafts. And here you can fantasize and invent.

Here is the letter I. A voluminous craft is being carried out. To do this, you need to perform a number of actions. Cut out two letters I. Prepare a strip of paper to glue the thickness of the letter. With curved edges.

Then turn one figure of the letter I, which will be on the other side, in the opposite direction. And start gluing the sides of the letters - on the curved edges of the sidewalls. For a child, this is jewelry work. But if it works out, the letter will be three-dimensional and beautifully shaped.

Fun event

All children, due to some personal impressions, have a letter that they like best. In the first half of the year, the teacher gives the students a craft assignment: my favorite letter. And not in the usual way to make a letter. And somehow decorate it in a special way.

Paint with curlicues and color. Make a fancy letter. On cardboard. And then cut it out. Bring it to school. During the lesson, the teacher will show everyone the letter that the student liked.

During such a lesson it is usually fun and noisy. Sometimes the teacher allows the children to play pranks. How can you not have fun if some people got such wonderful letters when they tried to decorate their pets at home.

Using the felt alphabet

An alphabet made from felt with animals is just what you need for educational activities with your child.

Felt alphabet for a child

Bright letters will attract attention and will be remembered quickly and for a long time. And fun games with felt alphabet, which can be played at home in the classroom, will help you consolidate your knowledge:

“Soft landing” - lay out the alphabet on the floor, circle a toy plane over it: “The plane was flying, flying - what letter did it land on?” The child must answer as quickly as possible.
“Who lives in the house?” — invite the girl or boy to put a suitable toy animal in the signed pocket.

The work of creating a felt alphabet is painstaking and long work. But every minute invested in the development of a child will become the basis for the formation of a happy and successful person.

What will you need for the job?

The main material needed in the work is felt. It comes in different thicknesses: from 1 to 5 mm. For a flat alphabet, it is advisable to use the thickest available option; for a voluminous alphabet, it is advisable to use soft, thin felt. Pay attention to the quality of the fabric: acrylic material creaks. There are also options with the addition of wool. If your baby has prerequisites for allergic reactions, then it is better not to use felt to make the alphabet.

The pattern is the easiest step in sewing fun colorful letters. To work, you will need threads that will closely match the tone of the felt, unless you want to make a contrasting stroke. This original idea also looks original and attractive.

Needles, pins, scissors and a textile marker will be good assistants for the craftswoman in working on patterns of letters of the Russian alphabet. You can use any filler; synthetic padding is ideal. To make it easier to type three-dimensional letters, you can use a sushi stick.

Craft pillow

This craft can be both decor and a pillow. To create it you will need the following materials:

Cardboard template.
Fleece fabric in different shades.
Sintepon for filling.

Making a pillow letter is easy. The template needs to be transferred to the material, then cut the fabric, leaving 1.5 cm for the seams, machine stitched and stuffed with padding polyester. Sew the remaining space by hand.

Overhead letters on the pillow

Probably, not everyone can sew a letter pillow with their own hands, sometimes there is not enough experience for this, sometimes there is no sewing machine. But everyone can sew overhead letters onto their pillow. For this you will need pieces of multi-colored fabrics, adhesive interlining, decorative threads and a needle for hand sewing.

Before cutting out the letter, you need to glue a piece of fabric with non-woven material, then draw its outline and only then cut it out with scissors. If you don't glue it with non-woven material, it will be quite difficult to sew the letter to the pillowcase evenly. But if you also fix such a letter with adhesive double-sided tape, then sewing it on will be quite easy. You can stitch the edges using a zigzag stitch on a sewing machine or any decorative hand stitch you like.

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Decorative elements for the pillow letter

A carefully constructed letter pattern, precise cutting, marking the joints on the parts, notching and cutting out the corners will allow you to make a beautiful and correctly shaped letter-shaped pillow. Such pillows look especially beautiful when using companion fabrics. But still, such a pillow can be further decorated. For example, delay the contour of the pillow. This method will not only decorate it, but also hide your mistakes. And if your pillow turns out “crooked and askew,” don’t be upset, because this is your first “pancake.”

The edging inserted into the outline also looks beautiful (the pillow is on the right in the photo). But this is for those who know how to sew well. To decorate the pillow, you can use various kinds of ribbons, for example, tie a cute bow on it. Large loops and beautiful buttons can also decorate your pillow, decide for yourself and try it.

Children's decor

To decorate the nursery, make personalized garlands on the walls and door of the room. What they have in common is that according to the scheme, the main part is made of felt. The most common panels consist of a semicircle on which toys or letters are attached.

Don’t throw away the leftover material; it can be used to make flowers and butterflies, which can also be used to decorate the name. You can also make toys from felt. The main thing is to carefully perform the seams.