Large and small, bright and inconspicuous inhabitants of the ocean amaze with a variety of colors and shapes. That is why picturesque cartoons about wonderful marine life are so popular with children. Do you wish the characters from Finding Nemo to come to your house? Rather, make them out of felt.
You will need:
- multi-colored felt,
- threads,
- magnets,
- scissors,
- needle,
- filler,
- beads, sequins (optional).
Clown fish pattern - the first in our list of the inhabitants of the sea kingdom. Making the mischievous Nemo and his dad will not be difficult.
Sew white wavy stripes to the orange blanks. Make eyes out of black beads. Sew the fish halves by filling the toy with cotton wool or holofiber.
Sea stars - universal felt crafts. They can decorate the whole room, turning it either into a fabulous seabed, or into a starry sky. What will your fantasy draw today?
Jellyfish made of felt... Making a toy doesn't take even 20 minutes. Just sew the pieces of the jellyfish by inserting felt tentacles between them. All! The jellyfish is ready.
Fish angelis probably one of the most beautiful sea creatures. Shall we make it?
Now I will show you how to do parrot fish do it yourself.
What else can you make with felt? Anything! For example, lemon butterfly.
Anemones - a wonderful decoration for your aquarium.
Butterfly fish it is also very easy to sew from felt. Do not forget to just decorate the fish with sequins and sew on beads-eyes.
And finally - some decorations. Colorful corals perfectly complement your aquarium.
It's just a little: use super glue to attach a small magnet to the back of the toys. A great magnetic aquarium is ready! But if you are delighted with voluminous soft toys, just make larger patterns, and you will have a whole collection of marine life, which, by the way, will go for small pillows.
You can make a real picture of these beautiful fish using beads, sequins and artificial stones.
Colorful fish will be a great gift for a friend or family member.
Merry creativity!
Felt toys are a lifesaver for creative parents who do not want to spend money on children's products made of plastic and material of undetermined origin. But saving is not the only plus of these bright and cute felt things.
A huge advantage of felt products for children is the ability to create developmental and educational toys for the little ones - for example, sensory and tactile pouches or brightly colored felt books with elements that are interesting to touch and consider for kids. You can also do hanging carousel on a crib with a cute animal or cute celestial bodies, like suns and stars - both children and adults love them.
For older kids, you can sew not only animals, dolls, cartoon characters and fairy tales, but also volumetric figures with letters... It would be a great idea to create simple large bright puzzles... This will allow you to learn in a playful way. It would be a good idea to make for a child finger theater or a collapsible toy made of several elements, like a tree with fruit or a hedgehog with apples on the backthat are attached to laces, ribbons or buttons.
Moreover, felt products can be easily decorated christmas tree or festive corner in the house for any other celebration. You will get unusual toys that reflect the personality of your family, your home.
Over time, the child can be involved in the creation of these toys - this will help instill a love for arts and crafts. Regardless of the purpose, beautiful toys will turn out for everyone, without exception, and interesting stencils and schemes will help with this.
How to make a beautiful toy out of felt with your own hands?
Felt toys can be made even by needlewomen without much experience, you just need to choose patterns and patterns of medium complexity - and the work will go by itself. Colors, shapes, blanks of sketches of the future thing can be selected in accordance with the interests of the child, or, on the contrary, you can create an unusual toy to attract the attention of the baby and expand his horizons.
Simple soft toys - a master class for beginners
In this section, we will learn how to make the first felt toys with our own hands with patterns for beginners. Let's make some cute animals out of bright felt fabrics. Man aster class on creating toys from felt with your own hands will help with this.
- Baby fox
Such a cute fox will appeal to any fidget and will definitely become a favorite toy. And it will be very interesting for any adult to perform it, especially if a step-by-step master class will help in this.
Materials:
- Template;
- Felt: orange, white, black;
- Synthepukh;
- Cloth and erasing markers;
- Stick for stuffing;
- Ruler, scissors, needle, felt-colored threads, fabric glue;
- Blush / art pastel for cheeks;
- Satin ribbon for bow.
Templates for work:
Progress:
Stage 1
Cut out all the necessary elements in accordance with the template. Repeating elements must be symmetrical. We glue all small felt parts to large ones with glue, or we sweep them with a contrasting thread. It is important that all repeating elements are at the same distance from the edges of large parts. This is necessary in order for the toy to look neat.
Stage 2
We begin to sew on small parts with a single white thread, performing vertical stitches.
Then you can start connecting the front and back parts of the toy together, starting with the ears. With a needle with a single thread of red color, we begin to make stitches (the first one is from the inside to the outside), starting the game backwards, and inserting it into the same place as the first time, thus making a neat loop around the two elements of the future ear of the toy. The needle is wound into a loop, and then tightened.
Now we sew the next stitch at an equal distance from the edge of the fabric, receiving another loop. We put a needle into it again, tighten the thread, thus obtaining overlock... We sew the entire eyelet with this seam, and the last seam must be inserted into the first. To make it easier for novice masters to figure it out, it is better to look at step-by-step photos.
We do the same manipulations with the second ear, after which we sweep the finished ears to the front of the head of the future fox from felt.
Stage 3
We draw eyes and a mouth on the white muzzle. We start from the inside with a double black thread to carefully embroider the eyes, moving to the front. The first stitch is made in such a way that the needle returns to the very beginning, after which the stitch is tightened. All subsequent stitches are made in the same way, the main thing is that the forming loop is always on top - above the thread with a needle. At the end, you can make an eyelash. The second eye and mouth are embroidered according to the same principle. Already at this stage, you can draw a cheek fox.
Stage 4
Time to sew large parts of the head. First, it is better to sweep the front and back of the toy's head with a contrasting thread. After that, you can start the overcasting. As before, the orange single thread will come in handy. When the seams reach the ear, it is necessary to insert the needle and thread on the back side so that the distance to the edge on both the front side and the back side is the same (the needle must go through the ear inside).
We insert the needle directly into the eye - in the place directly above the point from where the needle and thread came out. From the front, the needle will eventually also exit in the eyelet just above the original location. Introduce a needle into the resulting loop and tighten. You will get such a seam, which should look like an overlock. We sew the entire muzzle, leaving room for stuffing.
Stage 5
It's time to stuff the top of a cute felt toy. In this case, a sushi stick, pencil or special device will come in handy. You need to stuff the head of the toy evenly, not too tightly, giving a soft volume.
Stage 6
The next step is to create a ponytail. To begin with, you need to sew a black tassel to the end of the tail with a single black thread, while not sewing the sides of the end of the tail, but only sewing on a "zigzag". After that, the front and back of the ponytail are sewn together with the familiar orange overcasting stitch.
The place of the black tip is stitched from the inside, since the black tip will need to be stitched on top with black thread, proceeding in the same way as for trimming the rest of the felt toy. The opposite end of the tail remains open - it is needed for padding with synthetic fluff. After the tail is evenly stuffed with lining, it is sewn to the details of the body with a contrasting thread.
Stage 7
Then the back and front of the body are sewn to each other with an overcast seam, leaving the neck open. We distribute the synthetic fluff evenly over the body, after which the hole is sewn up with an overcast seam.
Stage 8
Now that the two main parts of the felt toy are completely ready, they need to be sewn together. To sew them neatly and beautifully to each other, you can align along the hollow on the chanterelle's breast - the nose and mouth of the animal should be located right above it.
Now, with a needle with a double thread of orange color, we begin to sew the parts. First, you need to insert the needle into the lower part of the head, 3-4 mm from the edge, as in the photo, approximately at the level of the middle of the eye. The needle is then passed over the edge of the torso - at the same distance - resulting in a blind stitch. It is necessary to sew the head with the body to the opposite end of the neck, tightening the seams tightly. In this way, the front face is stitched.
To securely fasten both parts, you need to sew them again, but in a more accurate way. Now that the needle is on the opposite edge of the neck, the back of the head needs to be stitched. However, you first need to pierce the torso from the front side, and only then withdraw the needle from the back of the head. We continue to stitch it according to this scheme in such a way that the threads are not visible at all (see photo). The felt fox is ready!
- Merry owl
Cute fabulous owls are very popular felt toys - it is easy to make them, and in the process you can even change some elements of the product at your discretion and taste. The result will delight not only children, but also adults. Let's try to make a stuffed felt toy, which will be decorated with a flower motif from small pieces of fabric.
Materials:
- Template;
- Felt: pink, brown, gray;
- A piece of colored fabric for the tummy and wings;
- Filler, like padding polyester;
- Scissors, pins, a needle, threads.
Templates for work:
Progress:
Stage 1
Cut out the paper pattern elements from the printed template. We attach them with pins to the felt material and cut them to shape, after which we remove the pins.
Advice! Use a hand-needle forward stitch to sew parts, making the same neat stitches and skips.
Sew the colored fabric onto the felt blanks for future wings with a needle forward. The knot can be hidden between the fabric and felt. And in order for the fabric to stay in one place during the creation of the toy, it is better to secure it with a pin.
Stage 2
In order for the owl to turn out according to the idea, you need to place the details according to the template. For the future, the body of the owl is attached to the gray ovals of the eye with pins, and then sewn The distance between the eyes and from the edges of the body should be equal to 0.5 cm. After that, we modify the eyes - we sew on two other parts.
We also sew two brown triangles on the ears.
We attach a colored tummy to the owl, sew the beak and legs on top. The back of the owl's body should be replenished with a tail, according to the template.
Advice! Children who want to help in making a toy can glue parts of a multi-colored material, after which the needlewoman can already sew them with even beautiful stitches.
Stage 3
The front and back of the body are applied to each other. Between them, according to the scheme, ready-made wings are inserted, all this is secured with pins. We begin to sew the toy from the bottom of the right wing, going in a circle to the bottom of the left wing. The remaining space is used for stuffing.
We fill the toy with padding polyester, but not to failure! It is important that the drawing and seams are not distorted at the end of the work. The hole is sewn up, the pins from the wings are removed. The felt toy is ready. To avoid difficulties in the process, you can see the phased photos.
- Peppa Pig on magnets
Many children are very fond of the character from the cartoon of the same name, so you can please the kids with a miniature of a felt pig. Inside, if you wish, you can insert magnets, or you can ignore this point and create a simple toy - it will not harm even the smallest.
Materials:
- Template;
- Felt: red, light pink, dark pink, black, white;
- Two beads;
- Filler: sintepon or holofiber;
- Pencil or disappearing marker;
- Neodymium magnets are optional.
Templates for work:
Progress:
Stage 1
You need to print a template, cut out a pattern of all parts of the future toy from felt. We transfer the contour of paper models to the material using a pencil or felt-tip pen, cut out parts from felt.
Stage 2
Cut out the pockets for the magnets and sew them to the inside of the back of the body and head of the pig, insert 1 cm magnets there and sew up the holes.
Stage 3
We sew a nose, a bright pink cheek, eyes to the muzzle, and then mark the mouth of the toy with a thread.
We put both parts of the body together, put the legs, tail, arms in the middle, sew them together, leaving a hole in the neck area. We send a small amount of padding polyester there, after which we sew up the hole.
Then we overlap the head on the dress, leaving a small hole for the padding polyester. Having stuffed it too, we sew up the last hole. The felt toy is ready! Thanks to step-by-step photos, the process of creating Peppa will go much faster.
Patterns and templates of Christmas toys
It would be a great idea to create felt toys for a Christmas tree, because the result will be voluminous bright crafts, from which both adults and children will be delighted. Deer, Christmas trees, candies and garlands - all of this can be decorated main holiday in a year, thanks to the thin felt material and little effort. Moreover, many new Year decoration it is quite possible to make felt out of felt quickly and well even for novice admirers of this art. Consider how to make Christmas toys out of felt with your own hands - patterns and photosthis will help.
- New Year's fawn
Cute animal toys on a Christmas tree or in a small handle are always a good idea. Therefore, you can sew a beautiful fawn with love, and thereby please yourself and your loved ones. This is not difficult to do - you just need to follow the scheme, and everything will definitely work out.
Materials:
- Template;
- Felt: brown, red;
- Filling: synthetic fluff or holofiber;
- A button or bead for the nose, as well as beads for the eyes;
- Stick for stuffing;
- Scissors, a needle, felt-colored threads, fabric glue;
- Self-disappearing marker;
- Satin or rep ribbon for bow;
- Suspension tape.
Template for work:
Progress:
We cut out the printed template from paper, attach it to the fabric, attach it with pins and transfer the drawing to a sheet of felt using a marker. We repeat the procedure for the second half of the future toy.
We sew on the front part "identification mark" - a decorative thing, like a heart, snowflakes, bow - whatever.
Sew together both parts of the toy with a simple buttonhole stitch. When sewing reaches the neck, you can immediately sew a pendant ribbon and a festive ribbon around the neck.
When it remains to sew up the tummy, we first fill the toy with filler, evenly distributing it. Then we sew the hole. In place of the ponytail, you can sew a funny pompom.
It remains to design the muzzle: sew on a button-nose and beads-eyes.
- Christmas stars
From a simple material of the most ordinary form, you can get an original product with a certain mood. Let's try to do this by completing a few festive stars that will transform even the most modest little Christmas tree.
Materials:
- Template;
- Felt of any color that matches the style of the herringbone;
- Beads, beads;
- Filling: synthetic winterizer, synthetic fluff or holofiber;
- Scissors, pins, a needle, threads;
- Pencil.
Progress:
Stage 1
Draw a star 8 cm across on paper. Cut out this simple star pattern from paper. The template is outlined with a pencil or marker on felt. It is important that all stars are the same. The sprockets are cut from the material and connected in two with a pin.
Stage 2
Sew the two parts of the star into one piece, leaving a little space for stuffing. We fill it evenly, after which we sew up the last hole.
Stage 3
Sew on the beads to the stars. For convenience, you can do this before stitching both parts of the star - if desired.
Stage 4
We put a woolen thread into one of the ends of the star, for which you can hang the finished felt product on the Christmas tree. The simplest and very cute christmas toy from felt is ready.
- Pigtail garland
Another beautiful and simple "toy" made of felt, which will definitely change the mood of all the inhabitants of the house for the better, is a two-color pigtail garland. Such decoration is easy to make, and most importantly, there is no need to waste time filling the toy and stitching around the edges.
Materials:
- Felt of any festive colors;
- Scissors, stationery knife;
- Needle, thread, pins;
- Pencil.
Progress:
Cut from two sheets of felt different color strips of the same size (length 25 cm, width - optional). We fasten together two multi-colored strips with pins at the top and bottom.
Then, in the middle of the double strip, two cuts are made with a clerical knife (as in the photo). After that, we make a "pigtail" pattern: we pass the end of the double strip closest to it into the upper cut, and then the strip is passed into the second cut.
Now you can make a garland out of several ready-made "braids" by stitching them all together. Or you can leave in short formhanging around the house.
Developing for children
Educational toys made of felt are a very popular direction, since novice craftsmen and needlewomen can sew such products on their own, and there are many options for such toys - for a variety of ages and interests of children. Will help to make educational and educational toys from felt patterns.
DIY felt toys are made according to the same principle as other types of felt products. Here are some photo ideas with useful developmental ideas.
- Felt puzzles "In the animal world"
Bright puzzles of two parts with cute little animals' faces will surely attract a child. Thus, it will be possible to start teaching the kid in a playful way. Let's take a closer look at how to make such an educational felt game with your own hands.
Progress:
Stage 1
Mark 12 × 12 cm squares on a piece of paper using a ruler and pencil. As a result, there should be 10 squares. Then we print out the patterns of animals, cut them out on paper.
Stage 2
We circle the patterns of animals, previously attached to the material with a pin, on felt of bright colors. The muzzles and paws are made in duplicate, the second copy will "mirror" the first. We cut out all the outlined parts with scissors or a clerical knife. Thus, a ready-made basis for creative work is obtained.
Stage 3
Our rectangle patterns can be turned into puzzle patterns by drawing a kind of "castle" in the middle. Now you can cut out one of the curly halves and attach it to the rectangle, circle and cut. Do the same with the other bright rectangle for the back of the puzzle.
Stage 4
After that, we select one of the blanks of the animals, apply it to the front double part of the future puzzle, choose the most suitable place for the animal. Sew the top piece to one of the front halves of the puzzle with simple stitches. It is important to first make an indent from the edge of the background of the puzzle, leaving space for connecting stitches between the bases.
Stage 5
Now the half of the puzzle with the animal is turned over to cut off the required half of the animal along its contour. We attach a part of the body to the bottom of the puzzle and sew it in accordance with the edges of the contours. At this stage, the animal needs to sew on light details of the face and body, which are cut off according to the same principle as the body.
Stage 6
Sew the front and back parts of the puzzle with regular stitches, hiding the knot between the pieces. We sew on the animal's nose and legs, glue the eyes or sew on beads. We work on the same principle with all other puzzles.
A wonderful game for toddlers that teaches the colors of animals, and it will also help to creatively look at the big world with small eyes. To do it is as easy as shelling pears: the game does not require great skills or art education - here the simpler the better. This felt toy is suitable for babies over a year old.
Progress:
Stage 1
It is necessary to take six one-color sheets of felt of the same size, first draw 6 simple animal figures on paper, cut them out and transfer them with a pencil to a felt. Then you need to cut out these ovals and primitive animal images with a clerical knife.
Stage 2
Next, you should cut out several triangles, ovals and circles for the ears and heads of our future animals from bright felt sheets. The eyes can be purchased at specialty stores, and you can also cut circles or beads. All this needs to be glued to large sheets of felt, or sewn by hand (for small children it is better to choose the option to sew by hand, because they pull everything into their mouths).
Stage 3
Now we need to take care of making "fur coats" for our home zoo. Here it is better to use bright interesting colors of felt to attract the attention of the baby. You will have to work on only four fur coats: zebra, cow, fish and giraffe. We cut out unpretentious stripes or spots for our fur coats and sew them onto the background felt sheets.
Fish from napkins and ribbons. Souvenir making workshop.
Zolotaya Viktoria Anatolyevna, teacher of additional education MBU DO SUUT number 2, Taganrog, Rostov region.Goal: teach how to make a souvenir in the form of a fish.
Tasks:
- develop fine motor skills, creative skills students,
- to bring up artistic taste, accuracy.
Purpose: interior decoration, a gift for family and friends.
Master Class intended for students over 6 years old, for their parents, as well as for teachers of additional education.
Materials:
universal viscose cloth (felt),
ribbons,
cardboard,
universal glue,
skewer,
eyes for fish,
sequins.
Progress.
Draw the body of a fish on cardboard, cut it out.
Prepare a universal napkin, circle and cut out two parts of the body of the fish on it.
For the upper fin, cut 5 strips of 4 cm each from the ribbon. Glue them with loops.
For the lower fins, cut off two strips of 5 cm. For the tail, cut off two strips of 11-13 cm. For the mouth, cut off 2 strips of 3 cm each from the red ribbon. Glue all strips with loops.
Glue all fins, tail and mouth from the cardboard side. Attach a skewer.
Glue the second part (from a napkin) of the body of the fish. Attach eyes on both sides. Glue sequin scales.
The fish is ready!
