There is not much time left until the New Year holidays. Almost every family dresses up a forest beauty in their apartment. Real or artificial spruce must be decorated with bright toys and shiny beads.
What Christmas tree toys can be made of felt?
Previously, sweets, gingerbread cookies, nuts were hung on a Christmas tree. But today this tradition is a thing of the past. A whole industry is working on the creation of Christmas-tree decorations. But if you make toys yourself, the tree will turn out to be unique, will have its own personality. In addition, such decorations are very cute, for example, you can make a house or a star on the crown of a tree. In addition, they have an important advantage - they will not break when they fall. This is true if the house has small children or animals.
You can choose almost any material for their manufacture, but from felt you can make toys spectacular, bright and sincere. Such a modest and symbolic gift will be appreciated by friends and acquaintances. Interesting look felt toys in the form of an animal, whose year is replaced by the current.
To make your masterpiece you should stock up with colorful pieces of felt, as well as scissors, a needle, threads, foam rubber, glue, pencil, crayon and objects for decoration: ribbons, sequins and beads.
Important! Having no experience in such a matter, it is better to start by creating toys with a simple cut with a small amount of detail. So that its production does not take too much time.
It is easiest 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, taking as a basis the pattern of volumetric models. You can make excellent angels on the Christmas tree.
Reference! Work on creating homemade jewelry you can do with your children. This fascinating process will be remembered for a long time by the baby, and will also help to develop his creative abilities and perseverance.
Christmas felt toys
Before you cut out the details of a felt toy you need to make a pattern of paper. Then the details will be smooth, symmetrical and you don’t have to cut the mismatching edges.
Snowflake
Snowflakes are an important attribute of the winter New Year festivals. Make such a Christmas tree decoration is not difficult. It can be sewn in a flat form, filling it with a synthetic winterizer, to make volume.
The work of filling a stitched toy can be assigned to children. They will be happy to do it. Adults will get the job of stitching parts and its further decoration with decor.
To create a snowflake pattern, you need to fold a sheet of paper 6 times in the form of a triangle, the top of which is the center of the sheet. And then cut off the triangular pieces from the side edges. By unfolding the folded paper, you can see the outline of the snowfields. This will serve as a pattern.
For one snowflake, you need 2 felt parts. It is better to choose a white or blue shade for this toy. If you make a snowflake flat, you can put a thick cardboard between them, and then connect the two parts with a decorative seam with a contrasting thread. Previously, you can decorate the felt details with sequins, beads or embroider "rain".
The second option is simpler. It is enough to cut two mugs of red felt, about the size of the bottom of a coffee cup, and lay on them a pattern of rhinestones in the form of snowflakes. Then carefully draw a hot iron over such a pattern, heated to maximum temperature. In 10-30 seconds, rhinestones will firmly fix on felt. After the snowflakes are glued to both parts, they can be sewn together.
Remember! Rhinestones, before you put an iron on them, you need to cover with gauze.
Herringbone
To decorate in the form of a Christmas tree, a pattern on a thick sheet of paper is preliminarily made. It is folded in half and one half of the Christmas tree is drawn in the form of triangles, a rectangle-trunk is drawn in the lower part.
After cutting out the pattern, it should be attached with pins to the felt and outlined around with a pencil, a piece of soap or chalk. Be sure to leave seam allowances. You can put a thick cardboard inside the tree to keep its shape.
Sew bright beads on top of each detail, in the form of Christmas tree decorations, and also make a small bright star on the top, to which a ribbon is attached to fix the finished toy on a Christmas tree branch.
Christmas ball
It is equally important to decorate the Christmas tree with colorful balls of felt. Such a New Year’s toy can be made 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. An embroidery inscription-congratulation “Happy New Year!” Is suitable, sew sequins on separate sections or on the entire surface. An application from a fabric of a different color will look originally on such a product.
Santa Claus
What New Year's holiday will do without the fabulous Santa Claus. Of course, it will take a lot of work to make it. If experience is not enough, then a pattern - a template for this toy is better to take from the Internet.
DIY masterclass of felt toys on spruce
The step-by-step production of an elegant Christmas tree toy will help to cope with this task easier.
Felt boot for gifts
Putting a boot for gifts, for children under the tree is a favorite custom. You can make such boots with your own hands or its miniature for decorating the spruce or for a symbolic gift to your loved ones.
Previously, the boot is drawn on a paper sheet. To do this, you can put the sock on the paper, and simply circle it with a pencil. Then put the patterns on felt and outline with chalk or a simple pencil.
It will take 2 identical parts. They need to be sewn together, but leaving the top part open. It is better to stitch with a buttonhole stitch, choosing a thread of contrasting color, it will look more interesting.
If the boot will be used to put candies inside it, then you do not need to fill it with filler. But if it will be used only as a decorative element, then the inside is filled with synthetic winterizer and the upper side is sutured.
Now you can start decorating. The edge of white felt is suitable for the red boot. On such a border you can glue flowers cut from felt. To the edge you need to sew a ribbon-eyelet to hang it on a branch.
Fairy elf
To make it, you will need pieces of felt in two colors. Pre-draw blanks (face, ears, hat) on paper. After attaching these patterns to felt, then you need to cut out all the details in 2 pieces.
For the face of an elf, a light beige felt is suitable. From the bright color (red, blue, green, purple), 2 identical parts of the cap are cut out. For decoration, you can make a frill for the cap. It can be carved from bright yellow felt. Having cut out 2 parts of each eyelet, you can begin to stitch the parts. But first you should embroider the pattern on the cap, then the elf will look smartly. You can embroider, for example, a small stalk with leaves.
Two details of the face of an elf are applied together and stitched. You must not forget to insert the details of the ears in the right places. Then the resulting circle is filled with syntepon. But do not stuff it too tight, otherwise it will turn out just a ball.
The next step is sewing on the cap. To do this, 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.
Eyes are drawn on the face with a black felt-tip pen, and a smiling mouth is marked with a red marker. You can also draw pink cheeks elf. Here is the toy ready. It remains to glue the ribbon loop.
Felt pig
Of course, the New Year 2019 will be the most striking decoration - a pig (a symbol of the coming year). The pattern of such a toy can consist of 2 parts, or be complex, of several elements.
Sew all the parts together and fill with synthetic winterizer. On the face, sew on buttons, eyes and a button-patch. Embroider mouth with red thread. Hooves cut out their black felt and stick to the legs. At the last stage - sew the tail.
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