DIY felt Christmas tree toys

There is little time left before the New Year holidays. Almost every family dresses up a forest beauty in their apartment. A real or artificial spruce must be decorated with bright toys and shiny beads.

What Christmas tree decorations can be made from felt?

Previously, sweets, decorated gingerbread cookies, and nuts were hung on the New Year's tree. But today this tradition is a thing of the past. An entire industry is working on creating Christmas tree decorations. But if you make the toys yourself, the Christmas tree will turn out unique and will have its own personality. In addition, such decorations are very cute; for example, you can make a house or a star on the top of a tree. In addition, they have an important advantage - they will not break if dropped. This is true if there are small children or animals in the house.

You can choose almost any material for their manufacture, but from felt you can make toys that are spectacular, bright and soulful. Such a modest and symbolic gift will be appreciated by friends and acquaintances. Felt toys in the shape of an animal whose year is replacing the current one look interesting.

To make your masterpiece, you should stock up on multi-colored pieces of felt, as well as scissors, a needle, threads, foam rubber, glue, pencil, chalk and decoration items: ribbons, sequins and beads.

Important! Having no experience in this matter, it is better to start by creating toys of a simple cut with a small number of details. So that it doesn't take too much time to make it.

The easiest way is to make flat models and decorate them with contrasting threads, beads, buttons, rhinestones or other decorative elements. At the next stage, you can master more complex jewelry, using patterns of three-dimensional models as a basis. You can make excellent angels for the Christmas tree.

Reference! You can do the work of creating homemade jewelry with your children. This fascinating process will be remembered by the baby for a long time, and will also help develop his creative abilities and perseverance.

Felt toys for the Christmas tree

Before cutting out the parts of the felt toy, you need to make a paper pattern. Then the parts will be smooth, symmetrical and you won’t have to trim mismatched edges.

Snowflake

Snowflakes are an important attribute of winter New Year celebrations. Making such a Christmas tree decoration is not difficult. It can be sewn flat, filled with padding polyester, and made voluminous.

The work of filling a sewn toy can be entrusted to children. They will be happy to do this. Adults will get the job of sewing together the parts and further decorating it with decor.

To create a snowflake pattern, you need to fold a sheet of paper 6 times in the form of a triangle, the vertex of which is the center of the sheet. And then cut off triangular pieces from the side edges. Unfolding the folded paper you can see the outline of the snowfields. This will serve as a pattern.

For one snowflake you will need 2 felt parts. For this toy it is better to choose a white or blue shade.If you make a flat snowflake, you can put thick cardboard between them, and then connect the two parts with a decorative seam using a contrasting thread. You can first decorate the felt parts with sparkles, beads, or embroider with “rain.”

The second option is simpler. It is enough to cut out two mugs from red felt, about the size of the bottom of a coffee cup, and put a pattern of rhinestones in the shape of a snowflake on them. Then carefully run a hot iron over this pattern, heated to maximum temperature. In 10-30 seconds, the rhinestones will be firmly attached to the felt. Once the snowflakes are glued to both pieces, they can be sewn together.

Remember! Before placing the iron on the rhinestones, you need to cover them with gauze.

Herringbone

To decorate in the form of a Christmas tree, a pattern is first made on a thick sheet of paper. It is folded in half and one half of the Christmas tree is drawn in the form of triangles, and a rectangle-trunk is drawn in the lower part.

After cutting out the pattern, it should be pinned to the felt and outlined around it with a pencil, a piece of soap or chalk. Be sure to leave seam allowances. You can put thick cardboard inside the Christmas tree to preserve its shape.

Sew bright beads on top of each part, in the form of Christmas tree decorations, and also make a small bright star in the upper part, to which tie a ribbon to secure the finished toy on the Christmas tree branch.

Christmas ball

It is no less important to decorate the Christmas tree with colorful felt balls. You can make such a New Year's toy by first downloading a pattern from the Internet.

The decoration of such toys can be completely different. Here you can give free rein to your imagination and taste.Embroidering the inscription-congratulations “Happy New Year!” is suitable, sew sequins on individual areas or over the entire surface. An applique made of fabric of a different color will look original on such a product.

Father Frost

What New Year's holiday would be complete without the fabulous Santa Claus. Of course, you will have to work hard to make it. If experience is not enough, then it is better to take a pattern for this toy from the Internet.

DIY felt toys master class for spruce

Step-by-step making of an elegant toy for the Christmas tree will help you cope with this task easier.

Felt felt for gifts

Putting a shoe for gifts under the Christmas tree is a favorite custom for children. You can make such a boot or a miniature of it with your own hands to decorate a tree or as a symbolic gift to your loved ones.

The boot is first drawn out on a piece of paper. To do this, you can put the sock on paper and simply trace it with a pencil. Then put the patterns on felt and outline with chalk or a simple pencil.

You will need 2 identical parts. They need to be sewn together, but leaving the top part open. It is better to sew with a buttonhole stitch, choosing threads of a contrasting color, it will look more interesting.

If the boot will be used to put candy inside it, then there is no need to fill it with filler. But if it is to be used only as a decorative element, then the inside is filled with padding polyester and the upper side is sewn up.

Now you can start decorating. A red boot will have a white felt edge. You can glue flowers cut out of felt onto such a border. You need to sew a ribbon loop to the edge to hang it on a branch.

Fairytale elf

To make it you will need pieces of felt of two colors. Pre-draw blanks (face, ears, cap) on paper. Apply these patterns to felt, after which you need to cut out all the parts in 2 pieces.

Light beige felt is suitable for the elf's face. 2 identical parts of the cap are cut out from a bright color (red, blue, green, purple). For decoration, you can make a frill for the cap. It can be cut out of bright yellow felt. Having cut out 2 parts of each ear, you can start sewing the parts together. But first you should embroider a pattern on the cap, then the elf will look more elegant. You can embroider, for example, a small stem with leaves.

The two parts of the elf's face are put together and sewn together. You must remember to insert the ear parts into the right places. Then the resulting circle is filled with padding polyester. But don’t stuff it too tightly, otherwise you’ll just end up with a ball.

The next step is sewing on the cap. To do this, you need to attach the cap to the head, then place the frill and sew it to the head along with the cap. In this case, all parts will be connected with one seam. Then the cap is filled with padding polyester. But the tip of the cap does not need to be filled.

Draw eyes on the face with a black felt-tip pen, and a smiling mouth with a red marker. You can also paint the elf’s cheeks pink. The toy is ready. All that remains is to glue the ribbon loop.

Felt pig

Of course, the most striking decoration for the New Year 2019 will be a pig (symbol of the coming year). The pattern of such a toy can consist of either 2 parts or be complex, consisting of several elements.

Sew all the parts together and fill with padding polyester. Sew buttons-eyes and a button-piglet on the muzzle. Embroider a mouth with red thread.Cut out the hooves using black felt and glue them to the legs. The last step is to sew on the tail.