How to make a felt autumn tree toy with your own hands

Handbags

An original felt bag will complement the elegant look of every girl. A small and bright accessory is easy to make yourself. We have prepared a master class for you that demonstrates step by step how to create a felt bag. To work, you will need to take not only felt, but also cotton fabric, which will be used to create an applique and a handle. It is worth noting that a felt bag can be detailed with buttons and embroidery (ornament). Focus on the accessory through the use of metal elements.

Accessories

Nowadays it is fashionable to put mobile phones in homemade felt cases. This is a fairly simple craft that requires minimal skills.

Pattern. 2 parts are made according to the size of the phone, an allowance is added for the thickness of the phone in double size. If there is a valve on the cover, you need to cut it out in 2 parts. The front side is decorated. This can be a thermal image or rhinestones, embroidery, felt and fabric applique. Even sewn multi-colored buttons will make the case unusual. On the wrong side you can sew a pocket for credit cards or travel cards. If the case has a flap, then first the flap is sewn onto the reverse side, a magnetic button is placed on it, and the second part of the button is installed on the front part

It is important to accurately calculate the connection location of the magnetic fastener. Sew both parts either by machine or by hand.

Types of felt

Felt is one of the varieties of felt, being a non-woven and fairly durable material that is made from different fibers. The quality and origin of fibrous materials determine the classification of felt, which can be of several types:

natural felt can be down, wool or down-wool, as soft and pliable as possible, it is best used for needlework if children are involved in the creative process;
synthetic material is available in two types, acrylic and polyester, this felt is flexible and easy to process, it has a denser structure that ensures long service life of finished products;
mixed felt is made from a pre-prepared mixture of synthetic and natural materials; it belongs to the middle price category; it is used for sewing durable and useful crafts.

All types of felt are soft and pliable; they hold their shape well in finished products and are relatively inexpensive.

Most often, the material is sold in sheets of different sizes, and you can choose different colors and shades, which is convenient for creating bright and colorful crafts.

Materials and tools for crafts

When choosing what to make from felt with your own hands for beginners, it is better to opt for simple and easily implemented ideas.

To organize the creative process and involve children or household members in it, it is enough to select the right materials and decide on the techniques for processing them:

cutting and preparing the necessary parts and elements, in accordance with a pre-selected scheme or idea, the design of a future craft;
stitching (sewing) or gluing, both of these techniques are suitable for processing artificial or natural and even combined felt;
decorating finished crafts using bright accessories; they can be sewn and glued using buttons and sparkles, sequins and beads or seed beads.

Useful tools that will definitely come in handy for creativity include scissors, threads of different sizes and thicknesses, and needles.

To glue individual parts, use a glue gun with silicone rods (multi-colored, plain and transparent or with glitter).

Animal patterns

You can introduce your child to domestic and wild animals with the help of an educational book. The cat can catch fish, and the dog can put bones in the doghouse, which can later be counted. There can be as many options as you like, it all depends on your imagination. We offer you a selection of simple and original templates for educational felt books.

A bright tiger cub will definitely delight your baby; to make it you will need two colors of felt fabric:

The following template will help you create a cute baby elephant:

To create a fawn, use the following pattern:

A popular idea for an educational book is a farm where you can collect various domestic animals, including a cow:

DIY New Year's garland made from felt Christmas trees

The Christmas tree is the main symbol of the New Year. When you look at a dressed-up forest beauty, your mood immediately rises. Make a garland of Christmas trees decorated with sparkling sequins. You will need:

green felt;
multi-colored sequins;
Christmas tree template;
filler;
satin ribbon of different colors;
scissors;
needle;
thread.

Place a small colored satin ribbon-trunk between the 2 Christmas tree blanks and begin stitching from the bottom using a needle-forward seam. On the sides of the tree, a sequin is placed on each stitch. Leaving a small hole, fill the figure with filler. All that remains is to sew the Christmas trees by the tops of their heads to the satin ribbon. This can be a long ribbon of the same color or several pieces of ribbon of different colors sewn together.

Educational book made of felt

What are educational toys? These are unusual toys that develop memory, imagination, and the ability to combine and organize. Toys for role-playing games will help a child acquire communication skills and broaden their horizons, while toys with functional fasteners and removable parts will develop fine motor skills and logical thinking. In early childhood, the development of fine motor skills in a child is very important, because it affects the further development of attention, speech, and perseverance. Why an educational toy in the form of a soft book? Because turning the pages is such a pleasure, because it’s so interesting “What’s next?”))) This instills a love of books and reading.

Ideas for creativity

Felt is good because it can be used to make flat and three-dimensional shapes; they can be filled with any filler:

padding polyester;
cotton wool;
wood shavings;
foam balls;
plastic film.

Kids love to play with crafts stuffed with rustling cellophane, seed husks, and buckwheat. Adults will be delighted with a little thing with coffee beans inside and aromatic herbs. Felt absorbs odors well; if you drop a few drops of orange, coniferous or lavender oil on a souvenir, you will get a flavoring.

What interests children

If you want to spend a few quiet minutes with your child, keep him busy with creativity. School-age children are enthusiastically making sewn toys, and kids are gluing together parts cut out from patterns. If a child knows how to use scissors, he is entrusted with marking and cutting felt. By March 8th, soft bouquets are made for gifts.

Felt flowers are attached to a hoop or hair clips. If you hook the bud on a pin, you get a brooch. For the New Year holidays, they make refrigerator magnets or Christmas tree decorations with the symbol of the year. How to make a pig, read below in the master class. For Easter, an excellent gift would be a small chicken, an egg-shaped pincushion, souvenir paints, and a cake covered in glaze.

Things for adults

Women love to use soft, original-shaped cosmetic bags, key holders, small bags for phones and small items on a long strap made of durable tape. Soft jewelry looks original: brooches, necklaces, bracelets.

Soft felt panels and decorative crafts are trending:

cacti in pots;
decorative fruits;
coasters for mugs;
warmers for teapots or saucepans.

Young mothers make educational mats and boards from felt for babies, wall toys for storing pajamas. Craftswomen make custom soft letters for the baby's name - such gifts for newborns are very popular. For Valentine's Day, soft voluminous and flat hearts decorated with flowers and decorative buttons would be appropriate. Cases for phones and laptops are practical - they help preserve battery power.

Oak fruits

As an autumn craft, you can make beautiful wavy oak leaves from felt and add the fruits of this tree to them. It’s convenient to make leaves using a template, cutting it out of paper, but to make acorns you will need to buy filler. It can be simple cotton wool or padding polyester. Take a piece of filler and roll it into a tight ball. Next you need to take light green felt and wrap it around the cotton wool.

On the resulting ball of felt material, you need to tie a knot with threads, and cut off the excess material with scissors. Then the same is done for the acorn cap. The only difference between making the cap and the acorn itself is that the cap needs to be flattened rather than rolled out into a ball to make a “pancake.” Finally, the cap is sewn to the acorn itself so that the seams are inside the product. They should not be visible from the outside.

For autumn crafts in the garden, you can make several oak branches from felt with two or three leaves, onto which two acorns can be sewn. Make one large and the other smaller.

New Year's crafts

Using felt it is easy to create beautiful and themed crafts that are suitable for holiday decoration.

When creating felt souvenirs, the main thing is to choose an interesting idea, such as mittens for cutlery, felt Christmas trees decorated with beads, from which it is easy to form garlands.

You can make envelopes with invitations and cards from this material by gluing snowflakes and snowmen, mistletoe sprigs or pine cones from the same material on them.

Soft and voluminous felt crafts can be of different shapes and embody all sorts of ideas and the most original projects.

To decorate a children's room, you can make toy pillows or beautiful appliqués created together with the children, and flower arrangements will look great in the living room.

Preparing for work

Before you start implementing your idea in the form of an application, you need to prepare everything you need for the work. Creative success largely depends on the fact that the necessary parts are always at hand.

Selection of materials and tools

Everything you need to make an applique can be purchased at a special store or found at home. You should prepare:

scraps of thin multi-colored felt;
dense thick flap for the base;
small element templates;
patterns for patterns;
pencil and scissors;
glue gun;
a set of multi-colored embroidery threads.

It is better to make blanks for appliques from scraps of material in advance so that it is convenient to assemble the picture. Blanks are made using templates.

Patterns for complex products

If templates are prepared using ordinary stencils, then toys, panels or paintings may require patterns that you can draw or build yourself thanks to step-by-step recommendations or photos.

Simple manufacturing methods

If you are a beginner, then you can make a beautiful keychain using several simple methods. To implement them you will not need a lot of time and energy, and the result will please not only you, but also your loved ones.

What can be made from paper

This option is the most affordable and simple. You can create a wide variety of crafts from paper that will be a great addition to your style. The process does not take much time and consists of the following steps, which explain how to make a paper keychain:

We take sheets of suitable density. When creating a keychain, you can use cardboard and corrugated cardboard of any color or old magazine covers.
Cut the selected material into triangular strips.
We attach an ordinary toothpick to the wide part of the paper strip.
We fold the strip and glue the narrow tip with PVA.
We coat the workpiece with varnish.
We put it on a rope and decorate it with beads.

Toys that interest children

Beautiful felt toys can attract a child’s attention, make them wonder and give them joy. There is something about them that makes not only a child’s soul, but also an adult, attend the holiday. Let's figure out together what makes them so attractive and what benefits they have:

Let's figure out together what makes them so attractive and what benefits they have:

A felt toy develops a toddler's development from the first months of life;
High-quality active play: making toys and playing with them;
A felt alphabet with animals will introduce letters and the amazing world of nature;
Bright, colorful, and baby-safe material from which the soft toy is made.

Develop children with unusual dolls

These soft toys for children are simple and cute. They are a real miracle that you want to play with. But at the same time, we can safely say that they are unusual. How? Let's look at this with examples.

A bright flower in which each petal has a different filling.

This felt toy is for newborns. Little ones learn about the world through touching everything. Therefore, such an original idea with different-feeling “fillings” will diversify newborns’ ideas about what surrounds them.

Puzzles.

It will be interesting and useful for children to collect felt pictures, divided into 2 parts. Soft figures with your favorite toys: a felt bear, a ball, a pyramid, a fish or a train. How much joy awaits the children when the picture matches. But at this moment they learn to compare color and shape.

Patterns for puzzles:

Lacing - Hedgehog with a harvest.

A hedgehog runs quickly through the forest, stopping near an apple tree and a pear tree, collecting the fruits of the trees that are hidden in the grass. There was a tree stump in his path, and under it a mushroom. The felt toy suggests that the little ones will be able to help the hedgehog harvest.

Choose clothes for the beast.

A difficult task awaits the kids; various felt animals have “lost” their fur coats. Do our children know what clothes a turtle, zebra, pig or fish wear? What is the fashion of the giraffe and the cow? This remains to be seen.

Fun account.

Who said that learning to count is tedious and uninteresting? We will break the stereotype. With the help of these felt toys, even very young children will delightfully master the now boring numbers. Moreover, they are presented in two healthy versions.

Do-it-yourself didactic manual made from felt for kindergarten. Tree. Seasons