See how to make a puppet theater out of felt, a brooch in the shape of a watermelon and an apple, a house from the same material. Two models are presented with a step-by-step description.
Felt? pleasant and malleable material. It can be used to make toys, food for them, educational rugs, cubes, and various decorations.
DIY felt brooch
You will create such a brooch from patches of the desired color. You can make two pieces at once to give one to your beloved friend, since the details will be paired. If you do not wear brooches, then such an interesting watermelon slice will become a hairpin or keychain. In the first case, you will need to attach a hairpin fastener to it, and in the second? sew on the keychain ring.
Take:
- felt green, red and black;
- metal zipper on a synthetic base;
- lighter;
- scissors;
- thread with a needle;
- black beads;
- a metal leaf or two for decoration;
- glue gun;
- a clasp for a brooch or for a hairpin.
First, you need to cut three circles from the base material. From black felt you will create a circle with a diameter of 10 cm, from red with a diameter of 8.5 cm, from green you will need to cut a ring with a diameter of also 8.5 cm, and the width of this ring is 1 cm.
Since you will need such semicircles and half rings, you will have paired details from which you can make a second brooch out of felt.
Take a zipper, cut a snake from it, and remove a strip of fabric. Then you will need to singe the fabric remaining near this fastener. Therefore, it is better to take a synthetic zipper.
Take just such a perforated blank for the fastener and sew it onto the black semicircle.
Then place a blank of red felt on top. Hold the two together with hot glue or all-purpose colorless glue.
Place a green felt ring on the edge, it will become a watermelon crust. Also fix it with glue.
To prevent these parts from moving, you can temporarily sew them with such stitches with black thread. Then the finishing work begins, sew the snake to the edge of the brooch. Sew one notch stitches.
Take these two metal leaves, sew on the edge of the brooch. Now take the black beads and glue or sew them on so that they resemble watermelon seeds.
You need to glue the clasp on the prepared part for the brooch. Now you can put it on.
If you liked making a brooch with your own hands, then you do not need to stop there, create such an interesting apple. The rest of the material from the first brooch will do.
Also take a metal zipper and trim off excess fabric from it. And if you made a felt brooch in the shape of a watermelon before, then you still have the other half of this clasp. Use it.
There could also be black fabric left. To do this, cut an apple with a diameter of 6 mm from it. Now, using black thread, start sewing the metal fastener in a circle. When you get to the top, create this beautiful curl.
Now take the metal base of the hairpin and sew it onto the second piece of the apple, which will become the purl. Take green felt and cut an apple leaf out of it. Take the scrap of zipper that remains and sew it onto the edge of this leaf. You can also embroider a few strokes here to add some to the apple.
Take a large red rhinestone, you need to sew or glue it in the center of the metal curl. Then put the front part of the felt brooch on the wrong one and sew or glue them together.
It remains in the same way to attach the pin fastener to the already perforated base. You can make an apple from felt in any color you like. Add other touches to this apple if you like.
See another option on how to make a brooch out of felt with your own hands
What to make out of felt with your own hands - a master class on making a house
You can also make it from this material. Usually this is created to decorate the Christmas tree, but you can make it in the summer to remember the longed-for winter coolness. But then in the winter you will not have to think about what to present for the New Year. You just take out the already prepared present.
Take:
- felt, the thickness of which is 4 mm - blue and white;
- red. blue thread floss;
- thick cardboard;
- white beads with a diameter of 5 mm;
- silver beads;
- satin ribbon 0.5 wide;
- a needle;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- lace.
First, it is advisable to make a template out of paper or cardboard. Draw on this basis the two sides of the house. The first one is taller, its size is 6 by 3.5 cm. And the small one is 4.5 cm high and 4 cm wide.
Take blue thread, embroider around the edge, making beautiful stitches. After that, start creating a semblance of a tree. First sew the paired stitches slightly diagonally, then add volume to them by sewing a few more times.
To further make a felt house, take beads and sew such a decorative element to the top of each tree. Now you can see how to make such jewelry out of beads on felt. They will personify frosty patterns and snowflakes. To do this, you need to string several such elements on a needle, sew them to the selected places.
Now take a square piece, decorate it in the same way with blue thread stitches, then connect it to the piece you just created. Also use threads of this color for this.
Cut two rectangular pieces for the roof out of white felt. Take the red threads, with the help of them imitate the tiles here. In the middle, make a line of beads, stringing 4 pieces at once. And sew on the edge with blue thread.
Take blue felt, glue white lace on one side and on the other along the edges, which will personify icicles. Also attach a ribbon here, with which you will then hang your creation. To do this, connect its ends and glue on the side that will be the inner one.
Now take this blank and place it with the tape on top. Glue the white tile roof on top so that the pieces of blue and the lace ornament are visible. Also attach the roof to the walls. Here is such a house made of felt then it will turn out.
And if you want to make another one, then pay attention to the next object lesson.
DIY felt gingerbread house
You will need:
- felt;
- fleece;
- rep tape;
- jersey;
- satin ribbon;
- yarn;
- decorative buttons;
- hair for dolls;
- beads;
- pins;
- beads;
- bells.
First, draw the future felt house, in this case its width is 12 cm, depth is 10 cm, height is 17 cm.
This is a prefab house. It can be expanded so that it becomes flat, and then the walls can be raised and tied to form a cube. Draw four squares that will become walls and two that will become a roof. Moreover, 2 walls should be larger and pointed upwards. Transfer the sketches to felt and cut out the necessary parts from it.
From scraps of this fabric, you will need to create dark windows and light in them. For this, brown and yellow felt are suitable. And make the door from brown. To then snow on the roof, use a white fleece. Cut out a piece like this that looks like a corner with wavy edges.
Put the tape between the wall and the floor, attach it here. Then this corner will bend.
If you have sufficient length of felt, then cut out two roofing pieces at once, consisting of a roof triangle and a rectangular wall. In this case, the craftswoman had small flaps, so she connected the 2 elements with a zigzag seam.
Transfer the two window pieces to the wall, cross-stitch them to secure. Then pull the threads to the seamy side, tie knots from them so that everything is done neatly on the front side.
Decorate the front wall as you wish. You can attach ribbons here, sew on buttons. If you also want to make a caramel stick like this on the other side, then create it out of white felt and a narrow brown ribbon.
Now take the details of the roof and stitch them crosswise with light threads to create such a lathing. Sew the Velcro onto the roof. Connect the roof parts to the walls.
Now you can start designing the rooms. Here, the inner walls were covered with fabric, the details of the fireplace and the fire, which was made from ordinary threads, were attached downwards. Flames need to be embroidered with them. Sew a braid on the top of the wall, and attach red boots for gifts over the flame. Here's how to make a felt house further to make it look so beautiful. You can also place a Christmas tree cut out of fleece, such a clock, and a toy on the other wall.
Now you need to decorate the Christmas tree with beads. To do this, string them on a thread of a suitable color. Decorate the watch with a ribbon, embroider a flower on the window, or sew a button of this kind here.
The next room of the felt house is the bedroom. To make it, sew a fabric here, which you cover with a cotton pocket. The child will put their toys here and pretend that they go to bed.
There will be a cabinet near the next wall. Its two halves are also made of felt, handles are also sewn here, which are buttons.
The rooms are ready, see how they look when disassembled.
It is enough to pull them by the strings, tie these ribbons, and you will have a snow-covered felt house.
What to make out of felt with your own hands - puppet theater
This soft material is pleasant to the touch. In addition, it keeps its shape well. Therefore, you can create a puppet theater from felt or finger. In the first case, the characters will be worn on the hand, in the second? on your fingers. Check out how to create a whole galaxy of such fun characters.
Then you can play a variety of performances with children, come up with plots.
In many tales, the grandfather appears.
- To create it, you need to carve out paired parts. You can redraw this character's template by placing a piece of paper on the monitor screen. Then place a piece of paper on top of the folded fabric, cut out the front and back.
- Following this, you will need to sew on clothes for this character. If you want to save some fabric, create this long shirt out of green felt, then cut out 2 pieces for the head and 4 pieces for the arms.
- Sew the elements in pairs. You don't even need a typewriter to do this if you don't have one. Since you can connect parts on your hands. The same applies to trim details, beards, eyes.
- And to make a nose, cut a circle out of flesh-colored felt, gather it on a thread, and tighten it.
You will also create a nose for the grandmother. Cut out the front and back of the dress along with the sleeves.
Use flesh-colored felt to make 4 hand pieces. Sew 2 in pairs first. Then sew them to the sleeves. Connect the side and shoulder seams of the dress.
Create a head, headscarf for grandma. Use the thread to make the hair. Create facial features, embellishments for the dress, embroider the mouth.
A felt puppet theater will have many such interesting characters. Make a granddaughter too. Don't forget to give the girl some freckles to make her look funny. Let the granddaughter be dressed in a red sundress and a scarf of the same color. Make white sleeves for the shirt, embroider not only the freckles, but also the hair, her smiling mouth.
Now that the human characters are assembled, you can move on to creating animals. You can play the fairy tale "Ryaba Chicken" with children if you make this character.
For such a chicken, you do not need to sew clothes, cut out two parts from yellow felt. These will include a head, two wings, and a body. Please note that the heroine's wings are wavy. To emphasize this feature, additionally use a needle to make such lines at the ends of the wings with red threads.
From red felt you will make a small scallop, sideburns, and from orange, create a beak. To do this, cut out a rhombus, then stitch it along the edge with red threads, make a seam in the middle. Glue the eyes for toys or take two transparent blisters of tablets for this, put one dark button inside and glue these blanks in place.
In the same way, you can create mouse eyes.
Cut out two paired pieces from the gray fabric. Sew a brown fabric on the front of the tummy and legs. It's easy to do it by hand.
With the help of threads of the same color, you will highlight the ears, eyebrows, and mouth. It remains to sew on a black nose, and the puppet theater made of felt will be replenished with one more character.
You can also make a funny frog out of felt. She appears in various fairy tales. It can be "Teremok", "The Frog Princess" and others. The base of this character is made of green felt; finish with black threads. Sew the sides of the product. At the bottom, you will have a space where the child will put his hand. He will stick two fingers into the paws, and put the middle finger in the space of the head. Then the child will be able to move this toy.
Runaway bunny. This character is a little more difficult to create. But look at how interesting it turns out. In order for the hand of a child or adult to crawl inside without hindrance, you can insert wedges into the sidewalls of this character's robe. Sew white felt trim on the front. Using black thread, create a hare's nose and other features of his face.
Fox is crafted from Bright Orange Cloth. From white felt you will make her mustache, select her belly and palms.
When you have done the cunning mischief, proceed to the creation of the wolf. Its sides also need to be expanded with wedges from the same fabric inserted here.
If the fairy tale "Teremok" is being played, then do not forget to make a bear. Create it with dark brown felt and trim with a lighter fabric of the same color. Sew his claws, ears, mouth and tongue with thread.
If you play the fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Kids" with the children, be sure to create these little characters and their mother goat. They are made according to one pattern, but the kids will be slightly smaller than their mother. Will help to create their fluffy coats and hair on the head with white felt. Trim in flesh-colored fabric. Also, you need to make a head and ears from it.
If you want to make the fairy tale "Three Little Pigs", then the puppet theater made of felt will be replenished with this character as well. Take a beautiful bright pink felt and make two bases and sides out of it. Join the parts with a seam over the edge on the arms. And from light pink felt, make paws, a tummy and a piglet for the pig.
You can sing to your child about two funny geese and at this time pretend that this character is dancing to the beat of your voice. Kids will surely like this kind of entertainment. Create 2 pieces of gray fabric, if you have a second goose then make it white. The nose will come out of a bright orange fabric. Use black thread to select the edges of the wings.
You can also amuse the little ones if you make a puppet theater out of felt and add a magpie here. Then you can play with them a joke about a magpie-raven who cooked porridge. To do this, cut this character out of a dark fabric, make her nose lighter.
Here is such a puppet theater made of felt, as well as beautiful brooches and a house from this material you can make. See how people make it. Then the child will be able to play here, develop their skills. Such a house is made in the form of a book.
And if you want to learn how to make felt brooches, then check out the next lesson.
