Week 3: Felt Ornamnets - Winter Activities {Template}

The weather outside may be frightful, but the winter wonderland ornaments for week three are truly delightful! We’ve picked a few iconic holiday items and winter activities to add to your Felt Advent Calendar – a lovely log fire, mini mittens, and a pair of ice skates to name a few. Follow along with our printable PDF templates and easy step-by-step instructions, or pick a few favorites and design your own.

Materials Used:

• Premium Wool Blend Craft Felt
• Embroidery Floss
• Fabric Marker
• Fabric and/or Precision Scissors
• Fabric Glue
• Small Colorful Beads
• Mini Black and White Beads
• Stuffing
• PDF Template

Prep:

1. Download and print the PDF template (optional) and cut out your stencils.

2. Using your stencils and a fabric marker, trace out your template onto the corresponding felt colors and cut the shapes out using fabric or precision scissors.

3. Using your fabric glue, layer and glue the pieces together following your template. Set aside for the glue to dry.

4. Once your glue is dry, grab your ornament pieces and a sheet of felt for the background – we used white felt for the ornaments to pop. Place one of your ornament pieces onto the felt sheet, and with your fabric marker, trace out a rough background shape that is slightly bigger than your ornament. You will need two of these pieces. Continue this step for the rest of your ornaments.

5. Before we glue the ornament pieces onto the backgrounds, feel free to add any additional details. For example, we sewed on small colorful beads for the Nutcracker eyes and used the mini beads for the snow globe and snowman. We also created additional details with our embroidery floss for the Nutcracker and skates.

6. Using your fabric glue, layer and glue the ornaments onto one of your background pieces. Set aside for the glue to dry. Continue this step for the rest of your ornaments.

7. Once the glue is dried, grab your duplicate background piece and blanket stitch your pieces together. We used embroidery floss in colors that match our winter activity designs to give the pieces more pop and contrast.

8. When you are close to fully stitching your ornament all around, grab bits of your stuffing and stuff the ornaments. This will give them more dimension and make them nicer to handle.

9. Complete your blanket stitch and you’re done!

Since we have made these for our Felt Advent Calendar, we also attached the other half (softer side) of the Hook and Loop/Velcro coin to the back side of our ornaments.

We invite you to share your thoughts on this process, questions, comments or tips and tricks. Don’t forget to show off your creations by tagging us on social media. We love seeing what our customers come up with.