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Are you ready to make a Felt Christmas Tree for the kids? To be honest, I didn’t make mine when my kids were little. Raising four little ones close in age. Now, with Pinterest inspiration and having older kids, I have the time. For this craft project, we think you will enjoy making your own Christmas Tree from felt for your kids or grandkids to use for the holidays and Christmas season.
I had gotten a call from my daughter, Krissy, asking me to make one of the Felt Christmas trees that they can pretend playwithand decorate for her little ones. (Her kids are all small and close in age.) How could I say no?! So the research, planning, ordering of fabric, and then crafting the felt Christmas tree began. If you are looking for other ideas to make for the holidays, go to ourChristmas Craft Ideas. It will have the latest projects. Or visit our seasonal crafts hub.
Today, I am sharing how our Christmas craft project turned out, with how easy it really is! These images were all taken before I had a camera for blogging. Don’t let that stop you from grabbing tips to help you make your own holiday gift for them to play with.
Felt Christmas Tree DIY
There are different types of felt: 100% Wool Felt is high-quality. Then there is felt with poly-blend.For this project, you don’t need the best. It’s going to be handled a lot by little hands! Not like a pretty ornament hanging on a tree, that will rarely be touched.
I’ll share my felt supply list at the bottom of the post for you. This will make it a bit easier to pick up your supplies. This felt had a nice thickness and great quality for the price, for the Christmas Tree Shape and Ornaments
Felt Christmas Tree With Felt Ornaments DIY
DIY Felt Christmas Tree Project
Materials to make a Felt Christmas Tree with felt decorations and ornaments
This felt craft is budget-friendly, especially if you are making it as a gift for more than one child! And if you craft already, you may have a lot of the supplies already. Not to mention, they will get so much creative playtime with this. When you have your project done, you are really getting a bang for your dollar. You can probably do this project in several hours once you have your supplies. Enlist a helper to cut, and it’ll be quicker.
How To Make Felt Ornaments for a Felt Christmas Tree?
Cut out simple designs to create the ornaments for the felt Christmas tree
Angel Face in Felt
To give strength to the felt pieces when adhering them, I choose to use the hot glue gun. It never fails, I always burn my fingertips when using it! That is why I have a dedicated pair of craft tweezers for pushing down felt or fabrics when gluing with the glue gun.
If you are new to crafting, keep your fabric scissors in top shape by not using them on paper! Ever!!
You can find and free cut ornament designs using yourCricut Design Space.Or copy a design (for personal use) and cut it out.
Make Simple Felt Designs for cutting out your ornaments
For many of these, I drew a simple design and made a template. Or sign up for free to Cricut Design Space and print designs.
Cut one and then just hold it up against the next piece of felt and cut another.
You can cut a template from cardboard from a cereal box, or poster board paper, or my preferred way is using tracing paper or pattern paper.
Santa Claus Felt Ornament Design
What to do if the felt isn’t big enough for the Christmas Tree?
I started with a basic Christmas tree shape, cutting the felt. My piece wasn’t big enough for the size tree my daughter envisioned, so I sewed two pieces of 36 x 36-inch felt together. If you want a larger size, you can always just order a 72 x 72 inch, which you can find (here)
When I was looking, they were out of stock until a date I didn’t want to wait for, since I was mailing this to them. I wasn’t worried about the seam, as they will be covering it with ribbon or ornaments as they play with it! I didn’t make a template, but you could from taped together newspapers if you really wanted to. Then take a felt pen and draw your tree outline, and cut. I just cut free form.
Mushroom Felt Design
Then I decided on what ornaments I wanted to start with. Made a list and started to cut them out. Some with templates, some without. I am hoping to send more ornaments such as woodland creatures, cat, dog, birds, nests, gnomes, and adding to the ornaments as time goes.
I have seen people make bells, hearts, strings of lights, candy canes, bows, and more. You can grab more ideas from Pinterest Searches. Here’s a page with more ideas on Pinterest for felt Christmas trees. You could even make a winter snowman and do the project over the holiday break for the kids.
You can also make the Felt Christmas Tree and purchase a kit forfelt ornaments
Felt Fabric Supplies for Making A Felt Christmas Tree
If you want to make a 3″ tree, one 36 x 36-inch green felt will be enough. If you want to make a larger one, you can purchase a piece 72 x 72 inches and cut it to size. The green felt I used was: Rainbow Classic Felt 36 x 36″ Craft Felt Cut Pirate Green
Felt Fabric Supplies for making ornaments
I purchased one each, blue, yellow, pink, and two each of cashmere (fawn color), walnut brown, white, black, and red. But, I think it’s safe to say I would have made more if I had at least 3 of each of the white, black, and red felt pieces.
Rainbow Classicfelt 9 x12” Craft Felt Cut Walnut Brown
Where to Find Good Felt?
A few good places to find quality felt that is affordable are felt material and cut felt on Etsy. And here, felt on Amazon. Hobby stores usually have a lower quality, but you can check at your local one.
Use Velcro For The Backing
I did end up putting some Velcro on the backs of the ornaments, the ribbed section only. I used a peel-and-stick Velcro and didn’t sew it on.
You can rough up the backs a bit; they will hold, but I thought a better hold would be achieved by adding Velcro. I have heard of people using a little bit of spray adhesive , but since this is for kids, I opted out of that.
For adhering the tree to the wall, use Command Strips! That won’t damage the paint or woodwork. Sorry about the quality of these images. I was sending it off and took them at night, but you get the idea.
I hope you can make your little ones this craft project.
Are you looking for more ideas to make for the Christmas season? Or Christmas Printables or Crafts?
Hi Jamie, Thanks for your visit and lovely comment! Hope you have a happy holidays!
i want to make one of these for my kids play room next year,. i think they would love having these to play with! thanks for sharing, and thanks for linking up with the all things pretty party.
Hi Chrissy, Thanks for stopping by. I hope you do get to make one for them! Happy Holidays!
, or other fluffy material for Santa’s hat
Or copy a design (for personal use) and cut it out. 
This is such a cute idea!
Hi Jamie, Thanks for your visit and lovely comment! Hope you have a happy holidays!
i want to make one of these for my kids play room next year,. i think they would love having these to play with! thanks for sharing, and thanks for linking up with the all things pretty party.
Hi Chrissy, Thanks for stopping by. I hope you do get to make one for them! Happy Holidays!