DIY Felt Toys: Patterns, Templates And Master Classes With Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 22:26

Workshops on making interesting New Year felt toys

The pre-New Year's bustle contains a lot of pleasant troubles. We prepare gifts for family and friends, think over a festive menu and decorate the house. Of the many materials available for creating New Year's toys and decorations, you should pay attention to felt.

Content

• 1 What felt to choose

• 2 Making New Year felt toys with our own hands - step-by-step master classes

  • 2.1 How to make a snowman out of felt

    • 2.1.1 Video: felt snowman on the Christmas tree
    • 2.1.2 Photo Gallery: Snowman Inspiration Ideas

  • 2.2 Making felt trees

    • 2.2.1 Christmas tree decoration
    • 2.2.2 Video: how to make a small felt tree
    • 2.2.3 Unusual Christmas tree for the interior
    • 2.2.4 Video: an original Christmas tree made of felt, beads and buttons
    • 2.2.5 Photo gallery: options for Christmas trees

  • 2.3 Fabulous Santa Claus with gifts

    • 2.3.1 Video: how to make Santa Claus on a sleigh with gifts with your own hands
    • 2.3.2 Photo gallery: toy Santa Claus - a selection of ideas

  • 2.4 How to sew funny reindeer from felt

    • 2.4.1 Christmas toy - deer face
    • 2.4.2 Video: making a deer face
    • 2.4.3 How to make a fawn
    • 2.4.4 Video: making a little deer
    • 2.4.5 Photo Gallery: Sketches and Fawn Toys

  • 2.5 Soft Christmas tree decorations for the New Year

    • 2.5.1 Amazing DIY snowflakes
    • 2.5.2 Video: 6 ideas for felt snowflakes
    • 2.5.3 Christmas balls
    • 2.5.4 Video: master class - making felt balls on the tree
    • 2.5.5 Photo Gallery: Patterns of Snowflakes and Christmas Decorations
    • 2.5.6 Photo gallery: a set of patterns and patterns for felt toys
  • 2.6 Video: making a felt pig

Which felt to choose

Felt is a soft and dense felt, the edges of which do not need processing. It comes in different thicknesses. For the base of the product, it is better to take a material with a thickness of 1 - 1.3 mm, and make individual parts of thicker fabric.

We make New Year felt toys with our own hands - step-by-step master classes

Working with felt is easy. It is suitable as a base material for making interesting toys that will become a festive interior decor or a decoration for a New Year tree.

How to make a felt snowman

Introduce kids to needlework and make a winter guest together.

What is required for work:

• felt white;
• filler or cotton wool;
• white threads;
• needle;
• scissors;
• felt-tip pens;
• pens;
• ribbons;
• the cloth.

Step-by-step description:

1. Cut out a snowman pattern from paper from two circles of different sizes.

   

   Make a paper template

2. Attach the stencil to the felt, trace along the contour. Cut two blanks.

   

   Circle the template by attaching it to the felt

3. Sew the details of the snowman with a buttonhole seam. Leave a small hole through which you need to fill the toy with filler. Then sew up this hole.

   

   Fill the toy to make it bulky

4. You can decorate a snowman in different ways. For example, draw details for him with felt-tip pens and decorate with a scarf made of bright fabric. Make a loop of thread to hang the toy on the tree.

   

   Draw a snowman's eyes, mouth and nose, tie a scarf

Video: felt snowman on the tree

Photo Gallery: Snowman Inspiration Ideas

Christmas snowman with candy

Merry christmas snowman

One and options for a snowman pattern

Fairy snowmen in funny caps

Toy Snowmen

Snowman sketch

An elegant snowman for your tree

Funny snowman Olaf from the cartoon Frozen

Cartoon characters are one of the popular ideas for creativity

We make Christmas trees from felt

Green, smart, but not real, but felt, decorated with beads, buttons and other decorative details. Let's try to make an original Christmas tree for our home?

Christmas decorations

A felt New Year's toy can be made in just 15 minutes.

What is required for work:

• felt of medium thickness in two shades of green;
• scissors;
• pins;
• filler;
• sequins;
• glue;
• threads to match;
• needle;
• satin ribbon.

Step-by-step description:

1. Prepare the details of the template for the tree and attach them to the fabric according to the colors. Cut, respecting all the curves.

   

   Cut out the details of the tree according to the template

2. Fold together two dark layers of felt, attach a piece of light on top. Sew the details. Insert a tape between the layers of the upper part, which will be a loop for the toy.

   

   Make a loop from the tape

3. In the process of sewing, stuffing the toy with filler is not very tight. Thus, process all the details of the Christmas tree.

   

   To make a toy voluminous, loosely fill it with any filler

4. Then connect the parts of the Christmas tree, stitching them with a blind seam at the back. Decorate the toy with sequins, as well as circles cut from the remnants of felt of different colors.

   

   Decorate the finished toy

Video: how to make a small felt tree

Unusual Christmas tree for the interior

From ordinary felt, you can make a stylish New Year's decor for the interior.

What is required for work:

• base cone made of cardboard, foam rubber or foam;
• felt;
• buttons;
• beads;
• glue;
• tailor's pins.

Step-by-step description:

1. Wrap the prepared cone with felt and secure with tailor's pins.

   

   Wrap the blank for the Christmas tree with felt

2. Use pins to attach the buttons to the fabric.

   

   Attach decorative elements to the tree

3. Decorate with additional elements. It can be beads, ribbons, bows.

   

   Decorate the Christmas tree to your liking

Video: an original Christmas tree made of felt, beads and buttons

Photo gallery: options for Christmas trees

Christmas tree assembled from squares of felt

The idea of / u200b / u200bChristmas garland, assembled from small felt trees

Felt Christmas tree pattern

Using felt of several colors in the manufacture of a Christmas tree

A variant of the original felt tree decorated with beads and sequins

Felt Christmas trees decorated with beads

Felt Christmas tree idea

Fabulous Santa Claus with gifts

Remember how in Soviet times they put Santa Claus made of papier-mâché under the tree? He was and remains an integral attribute in decorating a Christmas tree in many families. Modern materials have replaced papier-mâché. And if you like to try new ideas in needlework, we suggest making a felt Santa Claus with a bag of gifts, and even in a sleigh.

What is required for work:

• felt;
• any fabric for a bag with gifts;
• tape;
• scissors;
• filler;
• paints;
• cardboard.

Step-by-step description:

1. Cut out Santa Claus pattern from paper.

   

   Cut the template out of paper

2. Cut two circles out of felt to fit the head of the future toy. Glue them around the edge and fill with filler.

   

   Fill the toy

3. Do the same with the body of the toy, and then connect it with the head.

   

   Connect the torso and head of the toy

4. Glue the beard, hat and other missing details.

   

   Make Santa Claus a beard, cap and belt

5. Cut out a sled template from thick cardboard and fasten them with glue. Color it to your liking.

   

   Make a sleigh out of cardboard

6. Cut a rectangle out of the fabric, fold in half and glue around the perimeter. After that, turn it out, fill it with padding polyester or cotton wool and tie it with a ribbon. This will be a bag of gifts.

   

   Make a gift bag, attach a ribbon to it

7. Santa Claus with gifts on the sleigh will be in time for the holiday.

   

   Christmas toy is ready

Video: how to make Santa Claus on a sleigh with gifts with your own hands

Photo gallery: toy Santa Claus - a selection of ideas

It's not so difficult to make a voluminous toy.

Option for a New Year's toy or keychain

Phased production of Santa Claus toys

For such a toy, a template is enough

A whole set of toys

To make such a toy, you need to have some skills.

An original idea for decorating napkins

The original version of the toy

Small Christmas decorations in the form of Santa Claus

How to sew fun reindeer out of felt

Deer, along with Santa Claus and Snegurochka, have been considered one of the New Year's symbols for many years. They are found in winter ornaments and are depicted on postcards, and Christmas trees are decorated with their figures.

Christmas toy - deer muzzle

What is required for work:

• felt of suitable colors;
• filler;
• paint;
• thread;
• needle;
• beads;
• decoration.

Step-by-step description:

1. Cut out parts from felt according to a stencil. Since the toy will be double-sided, you will need two parts of each shape.

   

   Cut out parts from felt

2. Sew the nose of the future deer to its head. This part can be left flat, or you can add filler to add volume.

   

   Sew a nose to a deer's head

3. Connect the ear parts with a contour seam and fill them with filler.

   

   Thread the parts of the ears

4. Sew a string of beads to the front of the horns, then connect all the pieces and add filler.

   

   Fill the toy with padding polyester

5. Draw or embroider details on the deer's face.

   

   Embroider the face of a deer

Video: making a deer face

How to make a fawn

A cute fawn with a scarf will cause smiles of affection from others.

What is required for work:

• felt;
• threads;
• needle;
• tape;
• glue;
• synthetic winterizer or its substitute;
• a piece of fabric for a scarf;
• bow, beads, heart, pompom.

Step-by-step description:

1. Cut out two parts of the fawn.

   

   Cut out parts from felt

2. Sew a heart made of fabric to one part.

   

   Sew on a heart one detail

3. Connect the details of the deer by filling the toy with padding polyester. In the process of stitching parts, you must remember to insert the loop for hanging from the tape.

   

   Connect the parts and fill the toy

4. Now, with the help of glue, attach the tail, nose, eyes and scarf to the fawn.

   

   Decorate the New Year's fawn

Video: making a little deer

Photo gallery: sketches and toys-deer

Fawn with applique

Running deer

Such a toy will relieve a gloomy mood

Christmas deer pattern

Simple template for making toys

Another version of toys with a positive

Toys can be decorated with applique, buttons, threads

Christmas reindeer toys

Simple applique toy

Soft Christmas tree decorations for the New Year

Soft and bright toys for the Christmas tree can be very diverse.

DIY amazing snowflakes

Do the same snowflakes exist in nature? Let's try and we make them out of felt with a unique pattern.

What is required for work:

• medium hard felt;
• pins;
• scissors;
• sequins, beads, pieces of felt;
• glue;
• threads to match;
• needle;
• floss threads.

Step-by-step description:

1. Cut the template out of paper and pin it to the felt.

   

   Fasten the snowflake pattern onto the felt

2. Carefully cut out each petal of the snowflake, cutting through the fine details.

   

   Cut a snowflake with scissors

3. Remove the template from the fabric. To make the snowflake voluminous, you need to fold and grab each petal with stitches.

   

   Straighten the cut out snowflake

4. The snowflake is ready for decoration. Any methods are suitable for this: embroidery with threads and beads, appliqués from pieces of felt and sequins.

   

   Decorate snowflakes with beads and beads

Video: 6 ideas for felt snowflakes

Christmas balls

It is very easy to make balls for the New Year tree, these decorations are always relevant.

What is required for work:

• felt of different colors;
• scissors;
• tape;
• filler;
• beads.

Step-by-step description:

1. Cut the ball out of the pattern in two pieces.

   

   Cut a ball out of felt according to the template

2. Cut out the applique details from felt of a different color.

   

   Cut applique elements from felt of a different color

3. Embroider decorative elements of the ball on the base. Sew the felt details into the desired places. Decorate with beads and ribbon.

   

   Make an applique on a felt ball

4. Connect the two parts of the ball and sew them with a loop seam around the circumference. Add filler inside, make a loop from the ribbon.

   

   Attach a loop to the toy to hang it on the tree

Video: master class - making felt balls on the tree

Photo gallery: templates of snowflakes and Christmas decorations

Contrast applique looks more interesting

Set of unusual elegant snowflakes

Applique using felt of other colors and decorative tape

Volumetric snowflake toy

It takes patience to cut a snowflake like this

Beads, bugles, beads can be used to decorate snowflakes.

Some ideas for felt snowflakes

A good alternative to glass beads, especially useful if there are children in the house

Simple template for making felt snowflakes

Photo gallery: a set of patterns and patterns for felt toys

Owl templates and ready-made toys

Cartoon Man in New Year's Outfit

Buttons as a decor - a simple but original solution

A few ideas for creating felt trees

Felt Christmas toys in traditional colors

Set of sketches for creativity

Felt mittens for the Christmas tree

Another version of the toy set

Toys for a bright Christmas tree

Set of templates for felt toys

Cartoon christmas tree decorations

Embroidered felt decorations

Toy pattern set

Set of templates for new year decorations

Set of sketches for toys

Funny felt owls

The idea of making felt snowmen and birds

Smart snowman and deer

Colorful birds

Patterns for making toys

Any templates can be used for toys

Embroidered felt toys

Idea set of felt toys

To make toys bulky, fill them with padding polyester or scraps of soft cloth

Toys from a fairy tale

Decorate the snowflakes with colorful sequins

Even such simple templates can be used to make interesting toys.

Snowmen and Christmas trees are mandatory holiday requisites

The applique always looks unusual

Or keep one color scheme, if required by the overall design of the house and the tree

Use different colors of felt to make toys

Video: making a pig out of felt

Felt products are associated with home and comfort. Exclusive felt toys can be made in one style and skillfully used in the New Year's interior. The atmosphere of the New Year's holidays will become truly family-like if the younger family members are involved in handicrafts.